Spring of 2021 was the spring of my senior year in college, during which I took a class called Automation and Controls. The second half of the class was an individual project, which could be pretty broad. One of the options was to simply automate something with a PLC, and since I had agreed to start working as a PLC programmer after graduation, I combined some training for work with this project. My goal: to take a small(ish) 4 axis router, chop off the box with all the controls, and build my own controller using a CTC PLC and some stepper drives to run the stepper motors on the machine.
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