by BrianV | Apr 8, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
Sometimes the answer is in the trash. The background: while assembling a batch of HobbyCNC PRO boards, I was noticing how neatly the 23-pin driver chip dropped into the PC board. Then I had one chip with one lead, just one, slightly out of alignment. That particular...
by BrianV | Feb 17, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
I’ve made a few changes to the popular HobbyCNC PRO board. Most of the changes are cosmetic or functional, but one in particular is a big departure from the Rev1 boards. What hasn’t changed: Roughly the same form factor (it is a little smaller) Same...
by BrianV | Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Never really thought about it until I was recently asked the diameter of the mounting holes on the EZ board. I couldn’t remember. (FYI, 0.125″ [3.2mm] is the spec’d diameter). That got me thinking about the mounting pattern. Anyhow, I did them and if...
by BrianV | Nov 25, 2018 | HobbyCNC Blog
Customer received some new stepper motors and found it very difficult to spin the shaft by hand. Naturally, the thought was the motors were ‘bad’. Normally, you can easily turn a stepper motor shaft by hand, and you can feel each of the 200...
by BrianV | Oct 9, 2018 | HobbyCNC Blog
This is a very unusual chip to blow like this. Just like with the blown driver chip, damage like this indicates a LOT of power. But this chip is nowhere near any high voltages. The Diagnosis Assembly error? Nope. This was an assembled PRO board, so it was fully tested...
