Manual control of Shapeoko

Just watching a youtube video of ThisOldTony talking about adding digital control to a milling machine, but wanting to retain the manual controls. I’d like that for my Shapeoko. I’d just like to say, mill a slot with having to CAD it first.
See ThisOldTony here, foreshadowing adding manual controls.


John
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Using a keypad and the smooth jogging mode in GRBL could get you that manual milling mode (just "jog in the material with the router turned on :wink: ).

The problem would be the ability to manually adjust the jog speed depending on the material/cutter/RPM.

Jog speed is fixed in CM, but using another G-code sender you could add a manual control of jog speed, this is what I did in this project, one of the knobs on that pendant is used as a jog speed selector. The selector only had three positions, but one could come up with a finer way to manually adjust jog speed/feedrate (a rotary dial managed by an arduino maybe).

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