My machine is a Shapeoko
http://www.shapeoko.com/
Workflow Tutorial (this is how I learned and what I showed you roughly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P__6HAEeiIk
I store things that I am working on online in a wiki. Wikiwiki means fast in Hawaiian. It is a web editable web page. It came before most blog software. For me it is a convenient way to keep track of things online.
Software:
https://inkscape.org/en/
http://makercam.com
Universal Gcode Sender:
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Universal-G-Code-Sender
https://github.com/winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender
Misc Hardware:
Makerslide: https://www.inventables.com/technologies/makerslide
Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/
grbl (say "garble" I often call it "gerble")
http://grbl.tumblr.com/ Development blog
http://bengler.no/grbl About grbl
http://bengler.no/grbl
ShapeOKMaterialsSettingsNotes
