Electronic boards review
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Easy RepRap Eletronics
Easy RepRap Electronics This set is still running it’s Kickstarter campaign so I could not buy a set to actually try out for this review, but I still wanted to include it as it offers some quite unique features. It’s probably the most integrated electronics set available. That does not make it ideal for everyone, but some will like the fact it’s all on one board. As mentioned above my only real issue with having everything all integrated is that it limits the design of the printer to some degree. With many electronics sets for applications like this, it usually makes sense to
have a power and control board all integrated and then a user interface, display and storage as a separate module connected via a simple cable, this way the power electronics can be integrated into the heart of the machine, often along with power supplies and motors and the user interface can be located at a convenient place for the user. Because this board also uses a slow serial connection to talk to the SD Card that’s another reason to have the memory card easily assessable to the user, so Gcode can be copied directly onto the card instead of very long and slow serial downloads. This electronics set is very well designed, having a single voltage input and onboard switch-mode power supply with protection and even reversed polarity connection alert.
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