Re: Solidoodle starts shipping our new motherboard
yeah, filling the holes make it a bit harder but easy enough to drill em' out if someone doesn't have advanced soldering skills.
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yeah, filling the holes make it a bit harder but easy enough to drill em' out if someone doesn't have advanced soldering skills.
Filling the holes creates a giant PITA if you want to add headers. The Sanguinololu had an extra 12v supply that could be used for an electronics fan. Is that still possible with this board?
Yes, the extra fan is possible.

looks like a Printrboard
Wow. Shipping "our new motherboard" implies it is new - why not call it what it is, if it is indeed a printrboard?
At least they populated the headers...
because it is green and has the solidoodle name on it.
Sheesh ask a silly question. Grin
Yes it is made by the same company for whom ever is willing to pay the price.
Below the company name it looks to read
Laine Walter - Avina 2012
But it is all new! The printerboard doesn't have connections for the fan and LED strip above the last driver chip. So, totally different.
lol, weren't there a couple guys that just migrated to printrboards? I thought that I read that on the forums here somewhere.
Anyways, when compiling your firmware choose 81 for board type.
Just a heads up, if a stepper driver goes pop, you have to replace the whole board.
On Printrboard forums you'll see this isn't exactly rare.
Should be a nice little money earner for Solidoodle when combined with their mega profit shipping prices.
what all can that microsd card reader do? is that for installing firmware and such? and right under it are 6 pins what is that connection for?
On a Printrboard it is for printing gcode files without a computer.
its deff a repurposed Printrboard. in my Rhost inthe details at the bottom it says: FIRMWARE NAME:MARLIN V1; Sprinter grbl mashup for Printrboard
its deff a repurposed Printrboard. in my Rhost inthe details at the bottom it says: FIRMWARE NAME:MARLIN V1; Sprinter grbl mashup for Printrboard
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Just a heads up, if a stepper driver goes pop, you have to replace the whole board.
On Printrboard forums you'll see this isn't exactly rare.
I wonder how much of that has to deal with how many amps they are trying to pump through the boards circuits. They are after all running 500 watts!
lawsy wrote:Just a heads up, if a stepper driver goes pop, you have to replace the whole board.
On Printrboard forums you'll see this isn't exactly rare.
I wonder how much of that has to deal with how many amps they are trying to pump through the boards circuits. They are after all running 500 watts!
Where did that number come from? This must be another great fact from the Ministry of Truth.(It's a 1984 ref.)
My bad I meant printrbot. I have no idea why I said board when I meant bot.
Printrbot has been offering 500w power supplies as an upgrade. They even have been telling its users to get a funky "Y" cable so you can pump more power into the board.

I cant help but wonder if this is why their boards are having issues.
Is the default setting of the driver trim pots their ideal setting? Or can it be tweaked?
Is the default setting of the driver trim pots their ideal setting? Or can it be tweaked?
They 'should' be set correctly....but it probably wouldn't hurt to check them.
Be very careful checking them. It's easy to let the magic puff of smoke out.
Anybody else notice how quiet SolidoodleSupport has been since the revelation was made that their new revolutionary motherboard was nothing more than a re-badged Printrboard with some of the existing features removed?
I'm more keen to hear where they have hosted their Schematic and Board files, since its a CC ShareAlike 3.0 licence - http://reprap.org/wiki/Printrboard
SolidoodleSupport; can you post the URL with the required to be available under the licence files for the required public access as you have reused a CC ShareAlike 3.0 board and made modifications? This request is also inclusive of your 'new' firmware version as shipped as that is also Open Source.
Thanks btw, for supporting Open Source Hardware. I know you have put a high priority on ensuring licence compliance on Solidoodle's own Parts - this is why you can never post the designs for Solidoodles own 3D Printed parts as 'They are closed source' - so I have no doubts that the URL already exists and all the files are already posted somewhere because I know you'd apply that same level of importance and integrity to other peoples already open source works.
Anybody else notice how quiet SolidoodleSupport has been since the revelation was made that their new revolutionary motherboard was nothing more than a re-badged Printrboard with some of the existing features removed?
+1
They put an attribution on the board itself so I am sure they know all of the requirements of the license and have done everything you have said. In fact they told the guys in the shipping department to do it two weeks ago.
...well I just wasted 1.5 hours. Just getting into it and seems like this company could use some PR work, but not surprising for something small. I have no problem with them using open source and trying to save money. But they really need to update their guide. The recommended drivers DO NOT WORK!!! @!#$^
Thanks to you guys being on top of it I figured this out. The drivers for the Printrbot worked to get it up an going on a COM port as intended (further proving this is a Printrbot design). Way to make a change and not update guides.
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