Greetings folks. My name is Tom. I'm fairly new here and still very green.
I'm recently built a 24"x48" hobbyist machine from a cncrouterparts kit. It's up and running and I'm learning more every day. My "shop" is a small storage unit below my apartment I'm just beginning to trust my machine to run unattended while it whittles away on 3D signs and address plaques. I'm wondering if the Mach software has any way to send data over the network while its running. It would be nice if it had a built-in web sever that published a current DRO screen with some kind of progress indicator? The software (.dll libraries via Apache) to implement such a thing is easy to include in the code, or it could be a stand-alone thread initiated when Mach3 starts. I think there are web libraries that will serve a simple cgi page on a custom port. If not, is there any other way besides the sound of wood being cut to indicate its progress?