by BrianV | Jan 22, 2020 | HobbyCNC Blog
Arduino / GRBL First Test I’ve been planning for a while now to test the Arduino Uno and the GRBL CAM software with my HobbyCNC PRO board. I was certain it would interface, but I wasn’t keen on having to learn all the bits necessary to get it working....
by BrianV | Aug 21, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
I decided to offer assembled HobbyCNC PRO boards. As it turns out, not all of my customers are handy with a soldering iron, or they want their results quicker! So I build the boards, by hand, 10 at a time. Not a big deal. Testing them, however, is a big deal. I test...
by BrianV | Apr 8, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
Sometimes the answer is in the trash. The background: while assembling a batch of HobbyCNC PRO boards, I was noticing how neatly the 23-pin driver chip dropped into the PC board. Then I had one chip with one lead, just one, slightly out of alignment. That particular...
by BrianV | Feb 17, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
I’ve made a few changes to the popular HobbyCNC PRO board. Most of the changes are cosmetic or functional, but one in particular is a big departure from the Rev1 boards. What hasn’t changed: Roughly the same form factor (it is a little smaller) Same...
by BrianV | Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Never really thought about it until I was recently asked the diameter of the mounting holes on the EZ board. I couldn’t remember. (FYI, 0.125″ [3.2mm] is the spec’d diameter). That got me thinking about the mounting pattern. Anyhow, I did them and if...
