Thoughts on designing a new controller

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@dlang

who’s shop is a significant distance from their house and it’s wifi

FIRE RISK, CNC, Dust, Shop Vacs and Air Filters - a cautionary tale

It seems like this comes up every few weeks here and on every CNC forum, usually in relation to people saying they are comfortable walking away from a running CNC machine for a while - with or without cameras monitoring it. Don’t, it’s unsafe and the fire risk is real - I know. I recently joined a local Makerspace that has a 4x8 Shopbot professional CNC. It has high rapid and cutting speeds and lots of power. I was using it last weekend to cut a large project (3’x5’) and the controller or PC…