After selling off all the stock controls and hardware a while back, the cabinet is nice and empty. Starting with the LCD Screen first, my plan is to cut the opening a little and mount the screen inside. I have a keyboard with trackball on some of the other machines and like that so I plan to do the same on this project. Not a big fan of touch screens, I like buttons and lights. The MPG will be fixed to the cabinet similar to the stock control. This should leave a large section for button and lights and with self on the bottom for small tools and stuff.
For the I/O hardware, I am using a PoKeys USB device. I haven’t messed around with it more than a couple of hours, but so far it’s working great.
External Button Feature wise, I plan to have the flowing:
eStop/Reset with Red LED
Cycle Start with Green LED, Feed Hold, Stop,
Coolant with Blue LED,
MPG, Axis selection, Axis resolution
Feed override, RPM override
Open for ideas here…. What would you add if you could do it over?