Topic: Where to find a Solidoodle 3 compatible motherboard
The USB port on my Solidoodle 3 had a bit of an accident, I'm not comfortable enough with my soldering skills to desolder the existing one and replace it, my brother is too busy to do it for me, and it seems Solidoodle is now out of business so I can't count on getting the replacement I ordered at the end of last year (that they kept saying would be there by the end of the week for every week since November)
My brother said I can just get any Rep Rap mobo and it will work. I've been looking at some and I'm not sure about them. The ones I've found so far it seems you have to assemble yourself. The main board and then three separately purchased boards for each axis, meaning drilling into the case of my machine to mount them, which I'm not comfortable with.
Basically I'm looking for something I can mount on the case without making any modifications to it, plug all of the cables (stepper motors, heaters, lights, etc.) back in, hook it up to my computer via USB, plug it in (preferably using the power cord I already have, which came with the gen 3 Solidoodle), and get it up and running again. Absolutely no drilling or chaining boards together required.
Is there any board I can get like that or do I just have to take the loss on my existing machine and empty out half of my bank account to get the stuff to build a new printer?