Gantry Guides

Running a CNC from your phone

Practical, maker-to-maker guides for controlling a GRBL, grblHAL or FluidNC router from an Android phone — no laptop required.

How to control your GRBL CNC router from your phone

If you run a hobby CNC router, you know the ritual: haul a laptop out to the shop, find a flat-ish surface that isn't covered in sawdust, balance a mouse o…

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Running a CNC router without a laptop

Most CNC senders quietly assume there's a computer bolted to your workflow. Even the browser-based ones need a host PC or a Raspberry Pi sitting next to th…

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gSender is great — but it's stuck at your desk

Let's be clear up front: gSender is an excellent piece of software. Sienci built a clean, approachable G-code sender that a lot of hobbyists — including pl…

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How to recover a CNC job after a power failure

Few things sink a hobby CNC session faster than a job stopping partway through. A flicker on the mains, a nudged USB cable, a controller reset — and a two-…

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