Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

any timeline for when the centroid wireless mpg pendant will be released? that would be much better for me.

was looking at buying the xkeys 24 key board for my lathe. i found another one called the elgato stream deck. its only 15 keys but each key has a lcd screan and you can nest buttons into folders. it does macros and hot keys. does anyone see a reason it would not work? its designed for game streaming...

im guessing by cutting in positive you mean z+. i had this when i first started programming my lathe. are you putting your z values in as negitive numbers?

thank you cnc_smith i changed 240 to .020 and it looks alot better. i will keep decreasing it until i lose steps or get bad results. i will be switching to closed loop steppers at some point.

i am getting my mini lathe up and running for making rc car parts. its a harborfreight 7x10 converted to cnc. running open loop steppers on x and z. i made a program to thread the end of .25 rod with 4mm thread. my problem is that the threader decelerates in z without retracting in x. it makes the e...

you could wire them up in series so either would break the common connection. there is 8 inputs so if you have more open you could set 3 as home and 3 as hard limits

Hi. I'm not totally in the know with all of your hardware, but I can tell you that a $25 OMRON encoder works awesome with the Centroid acorn. Extremely accurate spindle feedback for tapping and threading. I'm curious about this encoder. Only place I found it for $25 was on eBay from a Chinese vendo...

Lathe/Mill pro software is listed at 99$ on the compare software page on centroidcnc.com but 139$ in the store.

i saw it said threading is locking in the free version of the software. is that just in conversational or will imported g code threading work. i plan on buying the pro version soon but waiting till i get all the kinks worked out of my mini lathe conversion. (thanks Franco cnc)

thank you guys for your help!!! Much appreciated