We are excited to officially announce a new Duet Mainboard:

The Duet 3 Mini 5+ is an evolution of the Duet 2 Maestro, It provides 5 on board drivers and the normal compliment of heaters, fans, IO, LCD etc. There are a Wifi and Ethernet variants with the option of using an SBC for control in the same manner as other Duet 3 mainboard. Expansion is more limited, it does not support the CAN-FD bus (EDIT: it does now) but does have a header for a three driver expansion board (EDIT: now a two driver expansion board).

Ethernet version shown

We will have more news shortly, including RRP and a call for participants to take part in limited initial prototype testing.

We have just started supplying out resellers with the new version of the Duet 3 toolboard: v1.1

Key Changes:

• Added a LIS3DH accelerometer.
• Changed all headers other than VIN, OUT0 and CAN to JST PH right angle connectors. (Thanks @KarlMarklund who did this as mod to an older version)
• Added a footprint for a Omron D2FD-1L30-1T or similar switch (may be useful for tool dock confirmation).
• Added a solder jumper that brings a 120R CANFD bus terminating resistor into the bus circuit to allow a toolboard to be directly connected to a Duet 3 mainboard without a tool distribution board. Thanks to @Nuramori and @bearer for this suggestion
• Board dimensions changed slightly (mounting holes unchanged)
• Added a jumper to switch VOUT on OUT1 and OUT2 between 12V and VIN. Thanks @TLAS for this suggestion.

Documentation has been updated here:
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Duet_3_Tool_Board

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We have been working on a Scanning Z probe for Duet 3 / RepRapfirmware, I am happy to announce the details now:

https://www.duet3d.com/blog/Duet3d-Scanning-Z-Probe

https://docs.duet3d.com/en/Duet3D_hardware/Duet_3_family/Duet_3_Scanning_Z_Probe

We are aiming to get supplies to our resellers by the 22 of November

https://youtu.be/k-wD0_l69SQ

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25 & 26 Dec
31 Dec, 01 Jan

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I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy end to 2022 and best wishes for 2023!

Duet3D has teamed up with Team Gloomy to change the current "Team Gloomy" discord server into one for RepRapFirmware, DWC, DSF and associated projects:

https://discord.gg/uS97Qs7

There are a number of reasons for this, but at its core its to address the misconception that RRF is only for Duet3D hardware. As an opensource project it is broader than Duet3D the company. There has been a lot of discussions recently about opensource within the 3d printing community. I am not going to attempt to address that here and now, however this step underscores the project goes beyond any company or individual.

We have long hosted discussion and support for the Team Gloomy port of RRF on this forum (and the whole community has benefited from @jay_s_uk, @gloomyandy, @Falcounet and others support and contributions).

I had personally resisted a move to Discord for two broad reasons:

1. I think forums are superior for more detailed technical support as the conversation is organised, easier to respond to in long form, search engine indexed and available as a reference for people with a similar issue.
2. Discord is another walled garden, they are not publicly indexed and we could lose the community built there if Discord shuts, or becomes enshittified like other social media platforms.

That said, the community is already there in a large part (both a lot of RRF users, and the wider 3d printing hobbyist community). Also Discord has recently introduced forum like channels with organised posts which go some way to address point #1. Discord bots allow for automation of functionally and could in theory be used to cross post with the forum (if someone know more about this please let me know!) , that in turn goes part way to address point #2.

I do not want Discord to move discussion away from the forum, however it already has to some extent. By working officially with Team Gloomy on discord it avoids further unnecessary splintering of the community. (something that would happen if Duet3D started its own public discord server).

We will keep the forum running for the foreseeable future and continue to provide support there, as well as a place for the community to post if they choose to do so.

We have completed our prototyping phase of the Duet 3 Mainboard and will be starting a limited initial production run shortly.

Headlines:

• 6 Stepper channels, at least 4A per channel.
• High speed dedicated bus to a single board computer.
• 2 CAN-FD buses for expansion.
• 10 PWM outputs for Bed heater, extruders, fans (example configuration is 3 extruders with 2 fans per extruder).
• 9 IO headers for Endstops, probes, filament sensors and other low bandwidth sensors.
• 4 Thermistor/PT1000 inputs and support for 2 temperature daughterboards (4 PT100s or Thermocouples).

Boards from this run are available for pre-order here:
https://www.duet3d.com/Duet3Mainboard6HC
This is on a first come first served basis.
We will begin delivery the first week of September, in the order we receive your purchases.

Initial documentation is available:
Duet 3 Mainboard 6HC Hardware Overview
Duet 3 Mainboard 6HC Wiring Diagram
We are also busy testing the second set of 3 channel expansion board prototypes, there is some more information on these here: Duet 3 Expansion Hardware Overview

Duet3D will be exhibiting at Formnext this year Hall 12.1 , stand G91. We would love to chat to anyone visiting,.

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Talking of @droftarts he has undertaken to post pictures here as the show progresses.

We will be showing off our new scanning Z probe (details to follow before the show starts), the production Motor 23CLs and a new <to be announced>

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Thanks for everyone for being part of this community over 2023, I would like to wish you all a happy and successful 2024!

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(updated 2nd Dec 2022)

@DocTrucker yes it's the connector block will update when I next get a chance

As an update we intend to release 3.6.0 stable on Wednesday 14th May.

@tcpl have you seen the work by @JoergS5 on this?

@dc42 for multiaxis rotary/linear systems like this it may be worth using a naming convention that fits with the stacked linear & rotary build up, e.g. as Joerg uses in his doicumentation:
https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/Machine_configuration/Configuring_RepRapFirmware_for_a_Robot_printer
e.g.
CoreXYACbed : CoreXY ganry, AC both connected to the bed, A nearest to workpiece

More here:
https://docs.duet3d.com/User_manual/Machine_configuration/robot_5_axis_CNC

@JoergS5 very sorry for your loss.

Thanks for the update on what you are planning.

@airking7

Please test the latest release to confirm its fixed?

@fcwilt said in My filament control system just ran aground.:

But I am using (was using it) just to set a number of filament related settings, such as hotend temperature.

Why not just set these using M568:

https://docs.duet3d.com/User_manual/Reference/Gcodes#m568-set-tool-settings

@fcwilt said in My filament control system just ran aground.:

IF it were possible to have an option setting in the DWC to have it send T0 P0 that might very well solve all my problems, IF it is the invoking of the pre/post/free code that is also responsible for controlling the heaters.

What do you mean about a setting in DWC? What button do you want tomprrss and not change to a specific tool, but to carry out some tool related action?

@dc42 part of the discussion is here:

https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/37627/simultaneous-dual-extrusion/9?_=1742826213982

@achrn have you considered releasing this as a plugin via plugins.duet3d.com

@patterson6 we have no plans to discontinue them at this point.

If you are making machines as an OEM then please reach out to sales@duet3D.com anyway so we can put you on our OEM mailing list.

@janusofdoors glad you have worked out what the connection issue was.

The reason we have the event is so that different machines can have different responses to loosing can connection, and also different responses depends on the specific expansion board that has lost connection. There is unlikely to be a default that everyone is happy with, and changing the default does mean that anyone upgrading has to notice that the default has changed and take action to create event files. I do think having the config tool generate an example event file that acted differently if a job was running or not and.paused during a job could be a good compromise.