Last year I spent a day putting neat connectors onto all the cables from the steppers and limit switches to plug into the cheapo Chinese parallel BoB. Today I cut them all off to connect into the screw terminals on the AXBB-E. The result is rather more of a rats nest than I would have wanted, largely because of the need to common up several connections into one terminal. Four common grounds for the steppers and four common enable lines, looping +12V for each proximity sensor, blah, blah.

If I'd thought in advance I'd have built an interface board with a multi-way socket (or even screw terminals!) for each stepper and limit switch and nice, single wires out to the AXBB-E itself. Then my machine would resemble one of Dean's rather than one of Heath Robinson's.

Anyway, it's all wired up today and we'll see if it actually works tomorrow.

Kit