Duet 3 demo at TCT

Surgikill

Would it be possible to make an expansion board that mounts directly to the extruder? Say it has a single stepper driver, some PWN fan controls, Z probe input, heater control and a thermistor input? Would be really nice if all you had to run to the extruder is power and data, instead of having a mess of wires like normal. Would also make tool changing much easier.

Phaedrux

@surgikill said in Duet 3 demo at TCT:

Would it be possible to make an expansion board that mounts directly to the extruder? Say it has a single stepper driver, some PWN fan controls, Z probe input, heater control and a thermistor input? Would be really nice if all you had to run to the extruder is power and data, instead of having a mess of wires like normal. Would also make tool changing much easier.

I think they've actually talked about a board exactly like that.

dc42

It will be a smart tool board, handling at least an extruder motor, heater, temperature sensor, 2 fans and a Z probe.

wilriker

I do have a Duet 2 - I don't need a Duet 3 - I do have a Duet 2 - I don't need a Duet 3...

Just practicing. I need to get this mandra working until Duet 3 is available.

dc42

I was testing the Duet 3 second prototypes earlier today.

fma

@wilriker said in Duet 3 demo at TCT:

I do have a Duet 2 - I don't need a Duet 3 - I do have a Duet 2 - I don't need a Duet 3...

Just practicing. I need to get this mandra working until Duet 3 is available.

"This Is Not the Duet You Are Looking For"

c310

@dc42 said in Duet 3 demo at TCT:

I was testing the Duet 3 second prototypes earlier today.

what are the main cool features, compared to DuetWiFi ? will you uncover a bit?

this link www.duet3d.com/duet3 does not work

deckingman

@c310 That link works for me.

deckingman

@wilriker said in Duet 3 demo at TCT:

Just practicing. I need to get this mandra working until Duet 3 is available.

Manuel, - it's "mantra" not "mandra" (that's a town in Greece). Oh and it's "practising" not "practicing".

Here endeth the English lesson for today

wilriker

@deckingman Yeah, the mandra-mantra thing is the same in German.

But with "practicing" I can - for once - correct you. This is the valid American spelling. And since I usually also write "color" and "honor" I consider this correct.

deckingman

@wilriker I gave you an English lesson, not an American lesson. They drive on the wrong side of the road and use all the wrong words for parts of cars (trunk instead of boot, hood instead of bonnet etc).

DocTrucker

@deckingman; but at least they don't call a damper a shock absorber, which technically is the spring!

Edit: Conversations that are not intended as formal publications (particularly online) being pulled off track into irrelevant discussions in grammer, spelling, or other language technicalities is a pet hate of mine.

By all means raise questions when the use of language has left the message unclear but otherwise it serves little purpose.

deckingman

@doctrucker Fair comment - and apologies. (Although sometimes a little light relief can be welcome).

DocTrucker

@deckingman no worries!

zapta

@phaedrux said in Duet 3 demo at TCT:

USB webcam support and easy time lapses

+1 for a plug and play camera.

A simple way to plug in a small off the shelf camera (Aliexpress generic modules or DueCam) would be a great addition. Being able to view the stream remotely in the web interface.

NoSkillzEngineer

@dc42 said in Duet 3 demo at TCT:

It will be a smart tool board, handling at least an extruder motor, heater, temperature sensor, 2 fans and a Z probe.

What about support material? Add either an additional servo header or a stepper heater and temp sensor, maybe up the amperage allowed on the fan headers (or generic pwm headers) for larger builds so that pwm header could allow for small brushed motors to be controlled by that same circuit board? I have some ideas lingering that might expand the machine capabilities of the duet3.

A Former User

Apart from lots of assurances that it will cost more than the current range of boards, has there been any ball park figures mentioned?

This looks like a potentially good upgrade path for my CNC rotuer that is currently running LinuxCNC with a Gecko G540.

But the one thing I cant seem to find an answer to is whether or not a Trinamic based board will be able to abort a job using stall detection for every move, but still use regular hard and soft limit switches for homing and travel limits. Its my understanding that homing using stall detection is less precise, so its desirable to keep the inductive limit switches for homing and use stall detection to try and minimize damage if screwing up the CAM and crashing the tool.

NoSkillzEngineer

Can someone take my money for this yet? I void every warranty I touch when it comes to my own stuff, I am COMPLETELY okay with highly experimental, hell practically describes my life XD

I don't see anything on anyone's github so I can't even pay a pcb manufacturer to make one for me on my own.

When will you take my money? alt text

deckingman

@noskillzengineer Get in the queue ...........

Dougal1957

@deckingman and that queue is growing already lol