#Does 8bit fiesta take other controllers drivers
#Does 8bit fiesta take other controllers software

This in turn can lead to failure of the heated bed mosfet due to not getting enough gate voltage. The 5V regulator on Arduino Mega is notorious for overheating and failing if you power anything else from the 5V rail, such as a graphical LCD. Compatibility with 24V power, which is better for driving large heated beds and 0.9deg/step motors.ġ1. Faster travel speeds, especially when using 0.9deg/step motors (which need double the step rate).ġ0. The homing, bed probing and pause/resume behaviour are also defined by gcode files on the SD card.ĩ. The machine parameters are read from a configuration file on the SD card at startup. No need to recompile and re-flash the firmware when you want to change something.

#Does 8bit fiesta take other controllers drivers

Modern stepper driver chips are designed to be cooled through the PCB, and plug-in drivers have far to little area to cool the chips properly.ħ. Better cooling of the stepper motor drivers. Also allows the current to be reduced when the machine is idle.Ħ.

#Does 8bit fiesta take other controllers software

Software controlled stepper motor currents. Calibrates the endstop corrections, delta radius and tower positions in a single iteration of bed probing (or 2 or 3 iterations if your parameters are a long way off to start with).ĥ. Fast auto calibration using a least-squares fit. I'm not sure whether this significantly improves print quality, but it is mathematically precise, reduces the load on the lookahead queue, and saves having to worry about configuring the right number of segments/second.Ĥ.

Although this point is somewhat irrelevant to me now, because I do all my printing via the web interface and I only use the USB interface for debugging new firmware.ģ. This avoids problems with the host program failing to send data fast enough to keep up with the printer because of having to wait for an 'OK' response after sending each gcode (even Octoprint has this problem sometimes according to recent posts on these forums). Fast, native USB port with built-in flow control (whereas RAMPS has USB-over-serial without flow control). I can also control the printer from a smartphone.Ģ. I find this much nicer to use than USB-based host programs, and it gives me real-time status of all the temperatures etc. Built-in Ethernet port and web interface, including fast file upload to the built-in SD card. The benefits I obtained were, in no particular order:ġ. I upgraded my Mini Kossel from RAMPS to Duet electronics, as I described in my blog at.