My cnc xpro board arrived very quickly after the kickstarter ended. It is a grbl compatible board with 4 axis, an atx psu connector and Bluetooth module support.
Getting it up and running with Universal Gcode Sender was quick and easy. Here you can see the vslot connector with a nema 17 hooked to the board for testing.
Overall it is a solid board for a 4 axis setup. It makes use of the popular grbl making it a drop in for many projects. The board has beautiful pcb with clear prints of what to connect.
Very cool board. I missed seeing that on Kickstarter. Have you tried running ChiliPeppr as your Gcode sender for that board yet? Would love to hear how it goes.
The board runs GRBL 0.8c so I don’t think I will have an issue. My current Arduino board running grbl 0.8c works awesome with ChiliPeppr. My only beef with CP is the visualization bug when there is a space between X/Y/Z/A/B/C and the value. Aside from that, I am almost ready to switch my toolchain from Universal Gcode Sender (last released in 2012 ) to CP.
Dat, I promise you I will get that tiny annoying bug solved for you by the end of the weekend. What’s interesting is I don’t know any toolchain out there that generates spaces after XYZA, but indeed that is an easy fix to make!
The toolchain I use is gcodetools. My current machine is a laser cutter, so I grab an SVG, then run gcodetools’ “Path To Gcode”. This generates working gcode (with correct m3 and m5) but it would add that annoying space after X Y and Z :|. Thank you for looking into it.
The board has grbl on it. There is no need for a parallel port nor mach3. You can send the gcode to it with plenty of free programs. I guess you can spend the money for use mach3 as well.
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