RA 3D PRINTER CONTROLLER BOARD DOES EVERYTHING, has DISCO LIGHTS

3D printers are getting far, far a lot more challenging than a 4-axis, plastic-squirting CNC machine. These days, you truly haven’t earned your geek cred unless you’ve hacked an LCD as well as SD card interface into your 3D printer, or at least experimented with several extruders. There’s a issue with the controller boards everybody is using, though: a lot of boards just don’t have sufficient output pins, greatly minimizing the number of awesome things a 3D printer can do.

Enter RA. It’s a new 3D printer controller board with IO for any type of possible setup. Going down the function listing of RA, we’re wondering why we haven’t seen a few of these features before. A 24-pin ATX power header is soldered directly to the board, providing RA individuals a stupidly simple method to power their printer. Of program there are outputs for LEDs, cam triggers (printer time-lapse motion pictures are truly cool), light rings, buzzers, an LCD/rotary encoder/SD card manage panel, as well as support for two heated beds for massive printers. If printing in one color isn’t great sufficient for you, RA has support for three extruders

Compared to other 3D printer boards such as RAMPS or the Sanguinololu, the number of outputs on this board is just amazing. If you’re planning to develop a huge, feature-laden 3D printer, you most likely couldn’t do much much better than what RA is offering.