Introduction and a Cyclone Controller Board Quandry

[Brady Bothwell]

Hi!

My name's Brady, I'm a rapid prototyper operating out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm also the owner of a new cyclone! And afters some trials regarding the quality of the kit, it seems to be moving (albeit running sprinter/marlin, and only when i use repetier). 

There's a catch though, MixShop, the kit supplier, decided that they'd be super helpful and substitute almost everything in the kit for stuff that they had lying around for their reprap kits, including their super fancy, overly obfuscated, all-in-one RAMPS 1.4 substitute, the Baboi Board. Basically a fancyRAMPS. 

THE REAL POINT:

I've tried loading GRBL in a few forms onto this board with little to no success (some sound from one stepper). I know the steppers are hooked up and running because they work fine with the native baboi firmware, and repetier works, i'd just rather use bCNC obviously. I submit it to you all, is it possible to pinmap grbl to this board?

In the GRBL pinmap it's pretty explicit that all pins of each type have to be on the same port bus, however MixShop has got some of the pins for the basic step dir enable pins in other ports entirely (z enable = d39)

The pinout of their board is located here: http://file.mixshop.com/forum/upload/PinMap_Baboi_v1.1.pdf

is there a way to individually configure the pins in GRBL or am i tied to the ports, meaning i probably have to get my hands on a RAMPS...

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

B

[Carlos García]

Hi Brady, the original GRBL does not allow it, but with the MOD it is possible indeed:
You can manually set any pins you like in "cpu_map.h"

Search for the string "MOD GRBL for Cyclone" and replace the values with the proper ones.

Cheers,

Carlos

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[Brady Bothwell]

Thank you so much! Seems to be working! Here's the cpu_map.h!

On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 2:13:33 PM UTC-5, Carlos Garcia Saura wrote:

Hi Brady, the original GRBL does not allow it, but with the MOD it is possible indeed:
You can manually set any pins you like in "cpu_map.h"

Search for the string "MOD GRBL for Cyclone" and replace the values with the proper ones.

Cheers,

Carlos

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Brady Bothwell <vac...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

My name's Brady, I'm a rapid prototyper operating out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm also the owner of a new cyclone! And afters some trials regarding the quality of the kit, it seems to be moving (albeit running sprinter/marlin, and only when i use repetier). 

There's a catch though, MixShop, the kit supplier, decided that they'd be super helpful and substitute almost everything in the kit for stuff that they had lying around for their reprap kits, including their super fancy, overly obfuscated, all-in-one RAMPS 1.4 substitute, the Baboi Board. Basically a fancyRAMPS. 

THE REAL POINT:

I've tried loading GRBL in a few forms onto this board with little to no success (some sound from one stepper). I know the steppers are hooked up and running because they work fine with the native baboi firmware, and repetier works, i'd just rather use bCNC obviously. I submit it to you all, is it possible to pinmap grbl to this board?

In the GRBL pinmap it's pretty explicit that all pins of each type have to be on the same port bus, however MixShop has got some of the pins for the basic step dir enable pins in other ports entirely (z enable = d39)

The pinout of their board is located here: http://file.mixshop.com/forum/upload/PinMap_Baboi_v1.1.pdf

is there a way to individually configure the pins in GRBL or am i tied to the ports, meaning i probably have to get my hands on a RAMPS...

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

B

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[Carlos García]

Glad to hear that, congratulations!!
Thanks for sharing the cpu_map for the Baboi board :-)
Happy milling!!

On 11 Dec 2015 02:10, "Brady Bothwell" <vac...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you so much! Seems to be working! Here's the cpu_map.h!

On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 2:13:33 PM UTC-5, Carlos Garcia Saura wrote:

Hi Brady, the original GRBL does not allow it, but with the MOD it is possible indeed:
You can manually set any pins you like in "cpu_map.h"

Search for the string "MOD GRBL for Cyclone" and replace the values with the proper ones.

Cheers,

Carlos

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Brady Bothwell <vac...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

My name's Brady, I'm a rapid prototyper operating out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I'm also the owner of a new cyclone! And afters some trials regarding the quality of the kit, it seems to be moving (albeit running sprinter/marlin, and only when i use repetier). 

There's a catch though, MixShop, the kit supplier, decided that they'd be super helpful and substitute almost everything in the kit for stuff that they had lying around for their reprap kits, including their super fancy, overly obfuscated, all-in-one RAMPS 1.4 substitute, the Baboi Board. Basically a fancyRAMPS. 

THE REAL POINT:

I've tried loading GRBL in a few forms onto this board with little to no success (some sound from one stepper). I know the steppers are hooked up and running because they work fine with the native baboi firmware, and repetier works, i'd just rather use bCNC obviously. I submit it to you all, is it possible to pinmap grbl to this board?

In the GRBL pinmap it's pretty explicit that all pins of each type have to be on the same port bus, however MixShop has got some of the pins for the basic step dir enable pins in other ports entirely (z enable = d39)

The pinout of their board is located here: http://file.mixshop.com/forum/upload/PinMap_Baboi_v1.1.pdf

is there a way to individually configure the pins in GRBL or am i tied to the ports, meaning i probably have to get my hands on a RAMPS...

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

B

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[Carlos García]

Oh and regarding the MixShop kit, do you deem it necessary to put a warning message in the "list of suppliers"?
I can understand the different electronics, but it does sound ike a true annoyance to get the wrong mechanical parts.