Custom Bart Dring FluidNC controller

I may or may not be turning the link on and off…

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Store link works, but inventory is sold out. Damn scalping bots got there first I guess.

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I can’t figure out why the font is so big in the docs.

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All the docs, or just JackPot page?

Here’s what I see (Chrome, with Dev Tools enabled, press F12) …

What’s your reference, ideal style you’re looking for?

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Of course… I’ve been watching this thread and refreshing the store for the last 2 days and I still miss it lol

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I will not be adding any inventory until maybe this evening or tomorrow evening. And I only have two. I still want to run one more test.

All, turns out it dynamically resizes. So if I set the max width correctly, it will look right. I am running some updates on the docs and theme. I have to boot back into windows 10 to do that safely, though.

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Observation: with no power on VMOT (just powered via USB into ESP32) the system doesn’t behave:

TMC drivers are not detected (on FluidTerm).
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Also rebooting via the Web UI returns a “Failed: 0” message on the settings page. (But when rebooting via FluidTerm, everything is fine.)
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When power is applied on VMOT then everything is fine. Driver tests pass (except for C) and reboot via Web UI has no issues.

Not a problem but it surprised me. I don’t remember, this is also true for the other boards too right? Where powering from only USB leaves it in a partially non-functional state (besides motor motion)?

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Correct, TMC debugging.

You have to reconnect and it will open a new page.

Yeah, depending on the pin.

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Ok, I spoke too soon. The “Failed: 0” issue is not a matter of VMOT power.

It happens occasionally but it’s not clear what the cause is. So far rebooting via FluidTerm appears to fix it 100% of the time, so moving on. Could be a bug in the Web UI for all I know.

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The rest of the webui works fine for you?

I have not seen that.

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I was trying to be very careful with the docs update and I accidentally pushed the update instead of a pull request. Fingers crossed I didn’t bork the docs.

Edit—All good.

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That should be just a reboot and reconnect are needed.

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is that price on the store a complete controller??? Drivers and ESP included?

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Whoa…I tweeted a picture and a single word yesterday, the views on this are nuts. https://twitter.com/V1Engineering/status/1682873412497326081?s=20 average for me is like 1k views, this is at more than 12k. What is going on, do people really like board pictures with no context? Is a picture really worth a thousand words.

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Yes…probably not the final price but the first handful will be for sure. Early bird special.

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LOL, Can I just send you money now?

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Woot! Machine is moving, X, Y, and Z! Need some longer wires to really go, and need to hook up endstops so I can home/square.

The lack of M84 feels foreign to me. Motors enabled on power-up and $SLP to disable steppers, and need to reset to enable again? Am I overlooking something?

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I use $MD to disable motors, they will start again on the first move

Couldn’t figure out how I can disable them at startup though (startup macros only take gcode I think)

EDIT:
Reviewed my config, and I can’t remember if the problem was with $md not working on startup macro, or if it had something to do with the fact that I need to run both M7 and M8 at startup, and this already takes up the two lines available

macros:
  startup_line0: M7
  startup_line1: M8

What I remember though is that calling a macro in the startup macro won’t work! :smiley:
I was trying to be clever by using a macro as a shortcut for “M7;M8”

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:point_up:

Exactly.

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Adding macro buttons to esp3d is pretty easy. You can make buttons to do anything. I have not messed with startup macros but I think you can add anything, and you can even start a file.

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