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Stepper Expander Artwork - How to?

Posted by Eddiie

Eddiie

Stepper Expander Artwork - How to?
April 10, 2016 08:23PM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 55

Hello,
I have purchased a 3 in 1 hotend for my Mini Kossel printer. I am using a RAMPS 1.4 and guess a stepper expander is required for the additional extruder.
The artwork on the wiki is in JPG format. How do I make a gerber file, a pcb file, a board file for printing? Don't I just need the traces?

Is the stepper expander still up to date? Is there something else?

Here is the link: Stepper Expander Wiki Link

Thanks,
Ed

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VincentM

Re: Stepper Expander Artwork - How to?
April 11, 2016 09:44AM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 73

More easy & cheap:
[reprap.org]

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Eddiie

Re: Stepper Expander Artwork - How to?
April 25, 2016 10:34PM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 55

Thanks - I actually went down that route because I could not figure out how to make traces from the circuit board artwork on the wiki, unfortunately. They are jpeg, not gerber or whatever else..

The CNC shield on top of the RAMPS board on top of the Arduino might make it too tall for my mini kossel's base.

Marlin, 3 extruders, 1 hotend, is tough.

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rollingdice

Re: Stepper Expander Artwork - How to?
May 29, 2016 09:16AM

Registered: 8 years ago
Posts: 75

Bumping this: I made a schematic and PCB layout using Eagle.
Currently only x2 version are available.