Cubiko CNC

SainSmart ran a recent Kickstarter for an enclosed desktop CNC machine, the Cubiko (https://www.sainsmart.com/products/cubiko). I acquired one of these to test as while I mostly do additive manufacturing with a 3D printer, there are times when traditional milling or subtractive manufacturing is a more appropriate choice.

Unfortunately the Mac support and event the IOS support is a little less than inspiring.

After a bit of a bus man's holiday there is hope
(https://gitlab.com/maurice.castro/cubiko-cli) that we can drive the Cubiko over WiFi from a Mac.

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Building a Mac OS X version of Candle GRBL controller application with G-Code visualizer written in Qt

As a new owner of a 3018 Pro Milling machine using a GRBL 1.1 controller I needed a program to download G-Code to the CNC Mill.

Windows / Linux users have a few choices including:

While UGS (Universal GCode Platform) does run on Macs, it is Java based and feels a bit resource intensive. So I tried building Candle and it is a fairly easy compile as the developer has done most of the work.

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