Welp, anyone wondering the le potato doesn’t do well with fall damage. Case and all my potato is now a potato. Looking at amazon looks like Raspberry Pi’s are finally getting to a normal price point. However I see that they are also around the price of a jackpot board… Decisions decisions…
A couple of tid bits, my grandma is still pretty ill (on the bend finally or at least hopefully) and I am constantly running back and forth at the moment so personal time is very short, so I may at least at this moment may just need to make the choice that is the easier plug-n-play option. Any advice appreciated as always, hopefully I can get back on the forum more soon
(get rid of the ?country=US if you’re not in the US)
Pi 5/4/3b/zero2w are all readily and easily available now at MSRP from reputable suppliers.
What controller do you use now, and on what machine?
Jackpot is a really decent controller for the MPCNC or LowRider family, Lasers, or the like. Not suitable for MP3DP Printers.
For what it’s worth, BTT Pi is what I use for a bunch of my projects, pretty affordable option with some nice to haves like 12/24v power terminals and a couple of dedicated fan and can ports.
Okay after weighing the options I’ve decided to go with the jackpot. I would have wanted to make the switch eventually, so why not now. Plus everyone that has one seems to really like it. Now I’ll need to find a different purpose for my SKR board…
That being said, you likely don’t need “all it can do”, so I would probably start in the Docs to make sure everything you need to understand and run the Jackpot board sinks in first.
Once you have a handle on that, FluidNC wiki is pretty good if you need/want more.
