Something that is missing when they are bought is automatic end-stops, although the ‘Woodpecker’ control board that comes with the machines, which is based on an earlier Arduino shield, has headers ...

This is a task that can be handled by a microcontroller, so in goes an Arduino Nano, which along with a few other board modifications delivers a serial-controlled studio router.

After downloading an rc-switch Arduino library and making a quick stop at his local radio shack to get a 433.92 radio receiver to decode the signal, he reverse engineered the weather station so he ...