An interesting Arduino project has been published to the Instructables website showing how an Arduino CNC shield and controller has been used to create an awesome 3 axis Arduino CNC plotter.

The laser in question is a 500 mW unit, driven by the Z axis on the Arduino CNC shield used to run the system.

Using a little Arduino hardware and programming a new CNC printing machine has been created to help bring Batik designs to life. Batik is a fabric decoration technique where wax is applied by hand ...

On the electronic side, he replaced the controller that came with the kit with an STM32F469 discovery board and an Arduino CNC shield.