I received my power supply, motor speed controllers, and the CNC shield. I have gotten all of these to work properly and am starting to work on linking the two arduinos together. This is because there are not enough input and output pins on the CNC shield available that I can work with. I plan to have a LCD panel display interface where I can choose different settings similarly to a 3D printer interface. I have another shield for my arduino that has built in motor speed controllers so I may decide to use that rather than the new motor speed controler since it uses up less pins and is just as easy to program. My plan for February is to finish up the code for the LCD interface and be able to control all the dc and stepper motors  from that interface. Then I will transition to moving on with the mechanical design and assembling the robot.