Best posts made by Vlad

@elmoret Thanks. The board is a paperweight now and is out of warranty already I assume. Weirdly failed after I connected a display via UART... oh well. What else can go wrong with that thing. AS for your civic comparison, I have a tesla, but I do not spend money unwisely like that, otherwise I would have had a civic probably with ford engine lol. I also prefer buying on amazon for convenience reason. Assembled car is a finished market product, and here we are talking about DIY item, so it is weird that you even compare roaches to apples here. I am not sure how many days you are in DIY hobby for, but buying a different "brand" of the board with same functions, is actually what is going on all over the place. We are not on gucci page here, it's a motherboard. DO you also oly buy duet sensors and duet heaters? Then why not buy a DUET 3D printer and not do anything at all? lol. I do not see any problem using adafruit board, and the only single issue of me not being able to use it is that the pinout for a DIY electronic component is not shown anywhere, including the pinout of their own add on board. And I made it work by the way, figured out ports on my own, by duetwifi schematics.

@phaedrux it's still a gamble. No guarantee it will be accurate. IR beam is also quite large and hotend is small. In order for IR to measure temperature, the surface has to fill the beam completely. For hotbed also it is easy to just use contact thermometer, will be much more reliable.

Ok, here is another problem I discovered on this boards. 256 microsteping sounds completely different from x64 for example. When I tested interpolation, I tested different settings. Such as

1. 128 I0 vs 128 I1
2. 64 I0 vs 64 I1
   Actually I tried all the way down to 4X microstepping which is super noisy, and turning on interpolation does absolutely nothing to the way stepper moves and to the sound and noise it produces.

Please tell me if I am wrong and this is how Interpolation is supposed to function. I did try this same function on smoothieboard last year, and I remember clearly how turning on interpolation immediately reduced noise even at relatively low microstepping.

Has anyone tested this at all? It totally feels like it is simply not functioning properly.

Well, I had nothing but embarrassment ever since this board arrived. Not really sure what all this hype is about. The main problem is the lack of any documentation apparently. Despite the great effort you guys made writing literally million words, the proper documentation simply does not exist. Every time I try to find something actually useful in setting up your hardware, I only find some useless gibberish there unrelated to actual setup. I built my own CNC machine and a COREXY 3D printer in the past, so no, I am not a total noob. And yes, I know how proper documentation should look like. This is by far the most poorly documented DIY board that I have ever purchased. Now I am struggling to find such simple thing as HOW TO CONNECT THIS THING TO WIFI NETWORK??? I mean, am I really asking for too much? A simple guide? $360 asking price and now I have to sit weeks scratching my head about how to make the damn thing do a simple wifi connection?

I paid over $360 for this hardware, I think the minimum I deserve from your company is proper documentation and support. The production cost of this hardware is under $70 and you ask for $360 which I paid. At such a great profit margin, wouldn't it be fair to at least work on some simple support documentation? I am not gonna ask you for the interface to look good, this is probably not gonna happen. But can you at least explain clearly WHAT you created and how to make it work? Tired of digging in your documentation page that only reminds me of a junk yard, with a hell ton of everything, but actually nothing useful.

The board cost alone is close to what basic laptop would cost and I do not expect that I have to finish the development of this myself, because it if your job, not mine. By offering product on a market you bare a responsibility of offering something that works as you describe on your page. So far, there is weeks of hard and not-fun work with this half-assed product between a paperweight that lies in front of me and an actual working 32bit board that can control a 3D printer. Not cool guys, NOT COOL. Over a year of market presence and sales and "we are working on producing a user guide". I think this is insane.

$100 screen can do nothing but control it's own brightness and the baud rate of connection to the main board. Apparently you do not need to offer a 7in option, because there is no use to it, there is no user interface. Why would anyone want to stare at ugly big screen? Can't comment on smaller versions, but 7in has a truly ugly interface and I am not sure who would want to see this on their expensive machine. You want to sell expensive things, which market CAN buy, but have no idea what it takes. Apparently you do not even understand that you have to invest a little into UI development for this product. Not sure who in a healthy mind would accept such ugly not convenient interface (if it can be called that) for the price that you are asking for it. At this price range your customers are no longer people with low income and low standards. And the price has to match the value.