Additional breakout terminals
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:47 am
Hello BuildBotics Team, thanks for offering such an excellent hobbyist CNC controller. It has greatly improved my machine and reduced all the clutter underneath. I had been using a HobbyCNC board/driver, SmoothStepper, and a WinBlo$ PC w/Mach3. All this has been replaced by the BuildBotic controller. As a added bonus, I can sit in the comfort of the house and load in my G-code and simulate.
with the Beta firmware announced yesterday, sounds like you have addressed most of my wish list items. Still there is one item I would like you to offer maybe as an option. My machine, (a BYOCNC Blacktoe Clone), uses shielded cabling through out. With the included breakout connector, I did not have a clean way to tie in all the shields and separate negatives I needed. I had to splice them all and pigtail down to single wires. Then my cables would not into fit the strain relief opening.
My suggestion is to offer a breakout board with a DB25 input, printed circuit board, and multiple screw terminals for each input channel, (input, shield, negative/positive). Then a user could uses a simple DB25 shielded extension cable to place a box closer to inputs on the machine. As someone who spends more time refining his machine than actually cutting parts, it would make life much easier.
I can't wait to try your latest firmware, keep on improving and thanks again.
with the Beta firmware announced yesterday, sounds like you have addressed most of my wish list items. Still there is one item I would like you to offer maybe as an option. My machine, (a BYOCNC Blacktoe Clone), uses shielded cabling through out. With the included breakout connector, I did not have a clean way to tie in all the shields and separate negatives I needed. I had to splice them all and pigtail down to single wires. Then my cables would not into fit the strain relief opening.
My suggestion is to offer a breakout board with a DB25 input, printed circuit board, and multiple screw terminals for each input channel, (input, shield, negative/positive). Then a user could uses a simple DB25 shielded extension cable to place a box closer to inputs on the machine. As someone who spends more time refining his machine than actually cutting parts, it would make life much easier.
I can't wait to try your latest firmware, keep on improving and thanks again.