Azteeg X5 mini and Smoothieware

[ajf]

The Azteeg X5 mini arrived a day earlier than expected.  Hope to get it installed over the weekend.  Smoothieware apparently supports laser cutters, though I haven't done much research on it yet.

[ajf]

The Azteeg X5 is awesome. Have only gotten as far as booting it up, but looks very promising.  

[Jeremy G]

Do let me know how it works out. I might be going down the pic32 route sonce I have a few laying around and a friend who deals in pic based cartisian based platforms.

But this is a big might...

[ajf]

Will do!  

Working on it now.  I took the X-Y assembly out to rewire motors, install drag chain and re-vent.  Dealing with a bit of mission creep now! So poorly put together.  The ground wire to mains input was basically attached by shrink tube...

Ran motion test on Smootheieware/Azteeg last night, looks good!  Smoothiewar config is such a step up from Arduino.

[Jeremy G]

What about the lcd screen from the ramps? Does it work with the azteeg as well?

[ajf]

The RRD GLCD does (though SD slot doesn't work with Azteeg, but will with Smothieboard,) not sure about the 4x20.

[ajf]

Have it all installed and mostly working, my PSU does not like 3.3v logic.  Got the fire pin hooked up with a simple pullup, but intensity is still not getting set properly.  Tried making a simple level shifter with parts I had on hand, but that failed.  Gonna order up a level shifter and voltage translator from sparkfun to see if one of those will do the trick.

Smoothieware is pretty awesome though, and the folks on #smoothieware irc channel are very helpful.

[ajf]

Here is my first real cut using Smoothieware, it's based on Dan's panel.  Note the hotness of the vintage Westinghouse ammeter! (Disregard the meter placement, I fixed that but uploaded the wrong file to the SD card.)