You hook the power wires straight to the power input on the board. Depending on which board you have (sorry I didnt read through the entire thread) will be where you hook them up. The Jackpot has one larger connection for the power with a + - screen printed on the board. The SKR will have 2 power input spots. Hook power from the PSU to one and then jumper from that to the other.
Yes you can splice in some extra wire for that. You can cut the wire a little bit back from the dupont connector and splice some wire in between so you don’t have to crimp a new dupont.
Core only gets one endstop switch. In the location directly behind the stepper motor. The other spot is for rare advanced user configurations. It should be ignored here.
I can confirm I have the Jackpot controller, will follow your advice along with the Jackpot documentation Seriously I appreciate the thorough (and quick) response so much, thanks again!
WOOHOOO I got it powered up and moving via FluidNC and hitting the X,Y,Z movement buttons! Also got the homing figured out, took a minute to realize that “+” = further from home and “-“ = closer to home.
I believe all that is left is installing the router and cutting my wooden struts! Taking a break before I get back to it, will update as always
I got the shape and tool paths set up in Estlcam and saved out the gcode file. I am connected directly to Jackpot (wifi AP) on MacOS (Safari). In the FluidNC webUI, I created a directory on the SD card called ‘crown’. Inside of it, I want to upload my gcode file, but nothing happens when I click upload… any advice?
If you click upload it should open a file window for you to choose your file. But I don’t have any experience doing it from a Mac so it could be different there.
You can try moving the file directly to the SD card by taking it out of your board and putting it on the computer.
ah man, I figured I’d un-plug and re-plug the CNC machine hoping a reboot would fix it… but now I can’t even see FluidNC as an option for WiFi connection. The connection has been flawless until right now .
I also tried powering down → remove SD card → boot up → power down → insert SD card → boot up. So I doubt the SD card is the problem at least. I also had it plugged into an extension cord, removed that just in case, but no dice either.
Did you happen to configure FluidNC as STA → AP mode at some point?
Next step if you can’t get the AP to appear is to get a USB cable and connect from your Mac to the ESP32, and bring up FluidTerm so we can see the boot messages.
I happened to see this instruction in one of my many open tabs lol -If you use STA mode and lose your Jackpot on the network you can find it’s IP on your router, use the web installer’s wifi tools. https://docs.v1e.com/electronics/jackpot/#troubleshooting
Except the web installer doesn’t work on Safari or FireFox, which is super lame lol. It could explain why I’d have problems uploading via Safari… https://installer.fluidnc.com/fluidnc/terminal
Anyways, downloaded Chrome and tried out the web installer, but when I try to view the terminal from it, it’s just empty with a blinking cursor and none of the buttons do anything. Will mess with it more tomorrow!
Double check that you have a USB+Power cable (Not a charge only cable.). Power down the jackpot and plug in the USB connection to your Mac or your Thinkpad. If the ESP-32 lights up you at least have a powered USB cable but we still need it to have data.
When it doubt, use FluidTerm directly (it’s in the FluidNC distribution, there’s a different set of them for Windows or for POSIX (MacOS).
If you have FluidTerm running, but never see a terminal that takes us in one direction.
Ok after more searching, the solution appears to be really simple.
My initial assumption about STA mode being the way to go was correct. All I had to do was navigate to http://fluidnc.local and I am connected immediately to the WebUI. No USB cables or FluidTerm required, it’s just using STA (station) mode as intended.
In seriousness: yes it did work! I was able to connect and upload my file via MacOS and Safari no problem, once I connected to STA mode.
Unfortunately I had to leave for work so I paused it and shut down the Makita (didn’t want to call it a router since we’re also talking about WiFi stuff lol). Will be a good test to see if I can reconnect, turn it on, and resume! I decided to get fancy and used estlcam to make 3 crowns in different positions, so we’ll see how they go
Seriously I appreciate the thorough (and quick) response so much, thanks again!
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