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Check out out my new blog article titled Integrating the PwnCNC automatic tool changing system with the Buildbotics CNC Controller.

Several of our customers have expressed a desire to build custom interfaces to the Buildbotics CNC Controller. Well, now you can because Joe wrote and published the Applications Programming Interface on github. Let us know what you think and be sure to report your developments in the Buildbotics Use...

V2.0.3 applies to the current release of our controllers that incorporate the Raspberry PI 4.

The latest official version for the RPi3 based controllers is 1.0.3,

OK great! Thanks for the update.

I'll turn one on and let it sit till tomorrow to see if mine gets slow too.

If you just let it sit idle, how long does it take to get slow?

Hmmm, Here's a few questions: What vertion of software are you running? Are you accessing the controller from a local monitor or across a network? If across a network, what browser are you using? Does it get slow even when you are not running program? If it only gets slow when running a program, how...

Version 2.0.3 has been released. It improves the ability of the controller to withstand incorrect motor wiring.

There hasn't really been a need until now. I applied the changes that you recommended yesterday.

If the limit switch is active when you start the homing procedure, the axis will start out in the wrong direction because it thinks it has ready found the switch and starts the back-off step. This can happen if the switches are configured to be normally open but they are wired for normally closed, o...