My dedicated laser is CoreXY motion, so only 2 motors. I wanted the core to be as lightweight as possible to elimimate artifacts on direction changes.
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I have one of the 79 dollar ones. I got what i got, lol
Well, there are a bit more than 110 Jackpots out there now. So far just the one issue we canāt figure out. Feeling better and better about this board.
50 more on the way!
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3 of them in my garage running awesome!
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You have more of my machine than I doā¦and they all look better as well.
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Thatās just because all the other crap around them in the garage makes them look better. Iām sure if you were standing here really looking at them you would find plenty of things to shake your head about LOL.
Still have to build the zen btw. But I guess its a good thing I held off on it. The pics of your dinning room table have her wanting that now LOL
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ohā¦but I have something that he doesnāt haveā¦ @Jonathjon
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Yeah I donāt have thatā¦yet. Seeing the spindle stuff at the bottom interest me. Iām going to try and set up an RS485 to control my spindle from it.
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lolā¦ itās something Iām working on.
Iāll make a thread when thereās something better to share, but I got some stuff figured out today so now Iām pretty sure I can make it happen.
I got tied up with family stuff this weekend so didnāt have much time, but if all continues to go well, maybe by next week there will be some BETA stuff to test with.
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yes yes yes!!!
Thatās it running on the ESP32 directly talking to FluidNC now. Iām working through adding support for the new protocol to the firmware.
Iāll have to work on SD card support last since these donāt have an SD card slot to test with. Iāll need to have it working pretty well before I put it on my Jackpot directly.
But Flash access works, a lot of the commands look like they work, and Iām working on getting the Settings page stuff together right now.
soā¦ 
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Well if you are still looking for beta testers around 11/10 Iām your guy lol. Until then ill be away from my machines unfortunately. Really need to find a way to make these machines make money so I donāt have to go to work anymore LOL
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Whatās this then? Are you updating FluidNC UI to have ESP3Dās 3.0+ Web UI? Until now, I thought FluidNCās fork was based on some ESP3D 2.1 build?
Havenāt used FluidNC yet, so I have no opinion on that. I do like ESP3Dās 3.0 Web UI, especially macro and custom keyboard shortcuts. Have used ESP3D 3.0 on a ESP8266 wifi module connected to SKR, and also on a ESP32 module plugged into Octopus. Cheers!
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Kinda both. Working on adding WebUI3 support to FluidNC, and FluidNC support to WebUI.
FluidNC guys have been talking about it for a while but donāt have time. Their goal is to not have to manage their own fork anymore. Mitch added his own revamp fork of 2.1 just so he didnāt have to bother Luc and interrupt them from making progress on v3.
Neither of these things are under my exact area of expertise, but I have enough experience across a lot of different development technologies to be dangerous enough that I can probably make it happenā¦weāll find out soon enough 
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That sounds awesome. Would be great for Fluid easily pickup all the updates going into ESP3D WebUI 3.0. I successfully submitted some minor edits earlier this year, and then tried submitting some other convenience items, but lost interest (or got distracted) after encountering unexpected resistance for this change. Will look out for your edits, hopefully others here interested in this might be able to support you if needed during pull request discussions
Good luck!
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I hear yaā¦Iāve lost interest in a few Open Source projects in the past when PRs get no feedback or they act like they really donāt want help.
Mitch seems to genuinely want this to happen, so I think we are good there. Weāll see how it goes with Luc. I havenāt tried interacting yet.
Once itās further along, Iāll make a discussion/testing thread and link the repos/branches where it all lives and some compiled outputs for people to test with if they are feeling adventurous
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I have revived my project of running a Pi as a smart screen. Currently it is talking to RepRap Firmware as a substitute for the PanelDue controller (Original intent) with CNC common functions (Changed intent. I used to have it setting up and displaying a lot of temperature stuff, filament loading and other printer functions.) Currently it has workspace coordinate selections (though I usually only use the first set) setting work 0 locations, probing stock, setting spindle or laser mode (Not needed with FluidNC.)
I want to see if I can get it to talk to the Jackpot over the serial UART. If so it will make a nice option for a Pi with a 5" or 7" touchscreen. Itās basically just a python 3 program that uses the serial UART on the GPIO header. I should verify that the UART is 3V3 signal voltage, though.
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The problem is always data transfer to the SD card. I have a MKS board that is running Beeprint that does manage data transfer to the SD card but it is quite slow and you can do nothing else on the interface while the file is transferringā¦ still, itās better than ESP3D. Good luck with your endeavors.
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Anyone using Fusion 360 with the Jackpot board? What post processor are you using, the generic grbl or something else?
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