Talk:Ultimaker's v1.3 PCB

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A few questions:

When will you start selling the PCBs or kits for this shield on your website? How much would they cost?

Will this work with the firmware on the RAMPS page, use the RAMPS firmware but change some of the settings on the configuration.h file, or do you use your own custom firmware?

Is there upcoming support for thermocouples or SD cards?

-ZNahum

From the comments made by JohnnyR, the boards are not too far away from being mass manufactured and sold through the UltiMaker website.

It is using a thermocouple sensor, the AD595, and requires only changes in the config.h and pins.h files in the standard firmware.

The Tonokip firmware, appears from my POV, that it is the same as the standard firmware, but with the correct pinout for use with RAMPS.

I on the other hand I am redoing the board, before I knew that he was also doing the same thing, for the amusement of myself, using the MAX6675 as the thermocouple sensor and locking headers. It won't be for sale, but rather be easily manufactured at home, on a RepRap or toner transfer method, though be prepared to do a lot of drilling, my aim to reduce this is to use as few vias as possible, using my experience at work when I do mods on production pcbs.

Both my board and JohnnyR's will be able to be made sindle sided.


Grogyan