The Smoothie Project is about creating an open source platform for controlling digital fabrication machines and to make that platform accessible to as many people, projects, and use cases as possible.

Thanks to everyone who backed our Kickstarter! You are the reason that Smoothieboards are available to the community today.

The firmware can run:

• 3D printers
• Laser cutters
• CNC mills
• and many other types of machines with minimal effort

By combining all of the jobs into a single modular firmware Smoothie allows different communities that would otherwise be working apart to share a common basis and to add their specific uses on top of it.

By making one board that can run all of these different machines Smoothieboard creates a hardware platform that different projects can share and build upon. In the smoothie community progress on one aspect of the project benefits all of the different communities using the platform.

Basic features

• All-in-one, ready to use controller board
• up to 5 stepper motors drivers, 1/16 microstepping
• up to 3 small MOSFETS, 5A
• up to 3 big ( heated-bed class ) MOSFETS, 12A
• 4 thermistor inputs ( for reading temperature )
• 6 endstop inputs
• sdcard

Avantages

• 32bits ARM-Cortex M3 microcontroller, running at 100 to 120Mhz
• Included 4GB micro-SD card
• Easy configuration by editing a file on the micro-SD card
• Ethernet support, featuring a Web interface and a Telnet interface ( for Pronterface )
• Access to the micro-SD card when connected to a computer via USB
• Concurrent serial communication for host software on the same USB cable
• Digital current control of stepper motor drivers ( no more tweaking potentiometers with a screwdriver )
• More precise and higher speed movement
• More accurate and further-ahead prediction of acceleration and movement
• Multiple arm solutions ( cartesian, delta, h-bot, etc ... )
• Hostless usage possible with a control panel or ethernet
• Good built-in heatsinking allowing full use of the stepper drivers potential
• SPI, I2C, serial port, and free GPIO pins available for extension

To get started with your new Smoothieboard check out our new 3d printer setup tutorial: http://smoothieware.org/3d-printer-guide

For more details and specifications check out the wiki here: http://smoothieware.org/smoothieboard

The Smoothieboard design files are drawn in Eagle CAD and are available on GitHub: http://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieboard

The firmware is written in C++ and designed for modularity and ease of use. The source is available here: http://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieware

If you are interested in reselling Smoothieboards or including Smoothieboard in your own product please contact us directly for more information and to discuss options. For North America contact mark@uberclock.com and for Europe and the rest of the world contact wolf.arthur@gmail.com.