by BrianV | Aug 21, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
Production Testing Assembled Boards I decided to offer assembled HobbyCNC PRO boards. As it turns out, not all of my customers are handy with a soldering iron, or they want their results quicker! So I build the boards, by hand, 10 at a time. Not a big deal. Testing...
by BrianV | Apr 8, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
Avoiding Bent Pins 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...
by BrianV | Feb 17, 2019 | HobbyCNC Blog
HobbyCNC PRO Rev 2! 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...
by BrianV | Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
EZ and PRO Mounting Templates 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...
by BrianV | Nov 25, 2018 | HobbyCNC Blog
Your Motor is Fine! 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...
