Hi All, I am creating a custom setup from a donor K40. The plan is to integrate the laser to my router which has a much larger bed. I’ve got an MKS Sbase running GRBL-LPC sending steps to a the driver board for the router. It’s mostly working. what I am struggling with is getting the homing to behave in the same fashion as the router.
The issue is that my x y z share the same pin and need to be homed separately instead of the default sequence which homes the Z and then x & y simultaneously. From what I understand this behavior can be modified in the Config.h and I would need to create my own firmware.bin.
I did see some instructions on this but it’s really beyond my comfort level since I do not want to brick the Sbase. Would someone here be able to produce a firmware.bin for the Sbase that homes individually and or allows individual axis homing such as $hx, $hy etc.
Unfortunately individual axis homing is not supported in grbl, but it’s easy to config the homing sequence (sample included in config.h).
I can compile a special version for you. Where do you have your homing switches and where do you like to have home 0,0,0 (typical for router is x+, y+, z+).
My gosh that would be super helpful. From my searching I was able to learn how to edit the config.h and cpu_map.h and flash an Arduino Mega. It seems to work but as I understand I will be limited in raster speeds.
There seems to be really only two parameters I need customized for a MKS - Sbase grbl-lpc version.
First is to have the homing sequence do each axis separately in config.h
home for my router is X-, Y-, and Z+ at the moment. Which parameter is this?
Alternatively, if you can point me to some other resource on a howto guide on compiling and flash GRBL-lpc I would like to take a stab at it. I am sure there will be further tweaks I need in the future. I did find the below
I got as far as the “make” command before it gave me an “Error 2” regarding coolant_control.c (this was without me modding grbl, just practice for compiling and creating firmware.bin)
Thank you for your offer and your work on this fork, I look forward to it.
It souds like it would be better when you could compile your own firmware. The build notes on the git http://README.md should be working fine. When you run make, it should produce a bunch of messages (including warnings), but at the end you should get a firmware.bin file.
I have added a special machine type for you, so you can have your own machine defaults (see #define DEFAULTS_JONAS in config.h and section #ifdef DEFAULTS_JONAS at the end of defaults.h).
Do a “git pull” of my repo to update your version.
@cprezzi Thank you. I am struggling a bit with the last “make” step. I have followed the http://readme.me instructions as well as a guide I have found here: