What’s everyone using to control their Herculien? I’m looking at the smoothie board does anyone have any input on the board?
Yes, use a smoothieware based solution. You will be happier than with 8bit controllers once you start pushing the speeds up. I love my azteeg x3 for robustness and quality… But for speed the 8bit ones have a low ceiling, especially on circles.
Which board option would you suggest?
It seems everyone is going Smoothieboard x5 with voltage reg and glcd.
@Oliver_Seiler is using a smoothie I think.
There are a lot of new smoothie-compatible boards popping up now, momoinololu, sunbeam, azsm, brainboard (my fav so far).
I would get the original or an azteeg if they had driver sockets (or onboard DRV8825).
Part of the reason for going to 32-bit is being able to use 1/32 microstepping at high speeds!
@Oystein_Krog azteeg x5 uses on board dvr8825.
http://www.panucatt.com/mobile/Product.aspx?id=37857
@Tim_Rastall Oh man, how did I miss that 
I’ve got a smoothieboard x5, but can’t really comment much as my Eustathios isn’t printing yet. But from what I can see so far (basic moves, etc.) I’m happy with it.
@Tim_Rastall only problem is X5 mini is single extruder and not enough fan and LED outputs… But Roy has some fun stuff in the works for multiple extruder controllers.
I just went for the azsm with DRV8825 , mainly because Panacut did´nt respond on @ and robotseed europe were sold out. (and 59 $ 
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sort of an experiment I know, but I m going for the single extruder solution anyway and that AZSM should be just enough for that
anyone familiar with the Sunbeam 2.0 board ? ist also smoothie-compatible
I thought the x5 could do dual extruders. http://smoothieware.org/3d-printer-guide
@Chris_Brent x5 mini by azteeg cannot.
Ah I see the x5 mini is the the 5x Smoothie! http://shop.uberclock.com/collections/smoothie/products/smoothieboard