Lightburn using benbox

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Searching this forum for “benbox” returns many good resources for your setup.

Arduino Based cheap laser engraver help please

Hi, Help please! I have read through lots of posts and watched hours worth of videos but I am still stuck. I have purchased a cheap (wanted but couldn’t afford a better one) laser engraver from Ebay. It came with Benbox software which works on simple things, but keeps crashing mid engrave for anything detailed. The laser is unbranded, has small arduino type board as the controller. Its a 2500mw laser with x and y stepper motors. The bed is 400 x 500 mm. When running Benbox, it made you ch…

Lightburn works in chinese cnc engraver?

I have reviewed the program that I downloaded from your website, but I have some questions, I bought a Chinese cnc machine to cut and engrave with a 10W diode laser, this program supports this type of laser?

Turning the laser on in LightBurn

BenBox is not supported but you could try entering “$$” into he console to see if it returns useful information but it is just a guess on my part. If you can flash with latest grbl then use the “GRBL” device.