OpenBuilds BlackBox Control System?

[forgecnc (Aaron)]

@kd2018

So it looks like just a drop in replacement for just your control board + power supply wrapped in a cool package. It uses Atmega328p and grbl which is less powerful than the offerings in the v1 store. That said maybe it’s still enough? I don’t know.

The packaging is cool, the LED indicators and powers witch look nice. At the end of the day I’m not sure how much easier if any it would really be to get going vs the typical setup.

I’d wait until it’s been on the market for a while and see what people think about it.

Less powerful, but more than enough for milling. A 2560 is great for 3d printing because the files are so big (and fast), but every implementation of GRBL runs on the uno/nano, even ESTLcam runs on a nano.

 

With that said, it will work fine for the mpcnc (drivers are kind of overkill) and grbl is very well developed. Software like bCNC is really close to Mach 3 in functionality too.