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Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:38 pm**

WillAdams wrote:Please see: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Overview#Machine

It is able to move using [[Stepper Motors]] which are controlled by [[Stepper Drivers]] attached to a controlling system. In the past, this had to be a full-fledged computer system which ran a G-Code interpreter, attached via specialized hardware directly controlling the machine (e.g., Mach3 or LinuxCNC), instead a Shapeoko uses a [[Arduino|Microcontroller Microcontroller (an Arduino)]]) running [[Grbl] (a G-Code interpreter) attached to the machine via a [[gShield] and controlled by a computer system running a [[Communication / Control]] program such as [[Universal Gcode Sender]].
also http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Software

Thanks man, now i got the things cleared. Very helpful

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:03 pm**

My pleasure.

Please let me know if there's anything else which you find confusing or hard to pick up on or which you can't find --- that's how the wiki improves.

I've re-read and re-edited it a couple of times. Hopefully it's clear enough now, but still concise enough to serve as a reasonable overview.

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