Instead, he built a USB dongle and wrote the software to turn this mini CNC into something usable with a modern computer. First up, the hardware. The core of this build is the rt-stepper dongle ...

Typically it depends on the tool, but when you can upgrade your 3040 CNC router to use USB instead of a parallel port with the TinyG motion controller… most definitely! The 3040 or 3020 CNC ...