{"id":3842,"date":"2016-03-26T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2016-03-26T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:51:44","slug":"micromill-mach3-linuxcnc-conversion-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/26\/micromill-mach3-linuxcnc-conversion-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroMill Mach3 \/ LinuxCNC conversion complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have mounted the parallel port break out board inside the enclosure of my ScanTek 2000 (Denford Micromill). I routed the parallel port cable out to the previous DB25 (RS-232) outlet on the case and sealed up the back.<\/p>\n

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With the built in wire management trays, the job looks almost professional…except for the fact that I used a triangular piece of 1\/4″ acrylic scrap I had for the mounting plate, so I had to orient the break out board at an angle. But since it’s inside the case, nobody can see it anyways. \"bob_mounted_closeup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Outside the case, the only visible difference is that I took off the black “RS-232” sticker that used to live next to the DB-25 connector.<\/p>\n

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Here are some photos of the original RS232 cable:<\/p>\n

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I have mounted the parallel port break out board inside the enclosure of my ScanTek 2000 (Denford Micromill). I routed the parallel port cable out to the previous DB25 (RS-232) outlet on the case and sealed up the back. With … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-projects","tag-micromill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}