Quote Originally Posted by Nr1madman View Post
Bummer! I was hoping for 24v signal system in the pokeys. Deal breaker! To bad I can't afford the csmio ip-'s because I have two motors on x axis and want the possibility of gantry squaring through use of home switches. .. food for thought, will have to rethink... again ;)
I thought also that this is a deal breaker but now after experiencing various controllers i am not so sure about that. Honestly, i start to prefer a controller that will send the signals in the right way so when something happens its easier to eliminate in my mind the reason why it happened.

-Its not a big deal to make a hard stop at the end so machine is squared when hits it, program machine 0 there and before switching machine on, to make sure that is squared
-some motors/ servo usually/ support "hard stop" / not same as the above/, which means they dont need sensors, when you hit them / slowly/ against the hard stop of the machine they emit the homing signal.
-use one motor for Y and A with belt connecting them

The only reason not to buy the CSMIO was doing some investigating to see if i could cheat the Devil, but till now- no, maybe only the Chinese offline controllers will do that. Still not sure if they are mature enough though.

if you are looking into the other cheap controllers you will find that at the end the total controller+breakout board+relay board =~300 euro or more, same as CSMIO. I am still not happy with that but thats reality


There is the Smooth stepper also in combination with some good breakout board. Dont forget about that.

I have always said it- the BOB choice is ridiculously limited, soon the new 3d printing BOBs will be better / at least when they wake up that a higher clock frequency is needed/