BAM&DICE - The new standard for arduino based 3D printer controllers

Dear Forum members,

I would like to present our newest project. The BAM&DICE Arduino Shield for 3D printers and other machines.

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The BAM Shield is fully compatible to the well known RAMPS board, so all pre existing software will run on it without changes.
The main difference to the RAMPS board is the PCI-E based connector to the stepper driver.
This connector allows much more current than the commonly used pin headers. It also has more connections, so we also routed I2C and SPI to those connectors, so you can connect SPI based stepper drivers and other extension boards, like a I2C port expander.

The standard stepper driver intended for 3d printers will be the DICE-STK which allows up to 3A current and has up 128x substepping for extra precision.

Currently we are running a Indiegogo campaign for this, so that we can get enough preorders to make production affordable.
After the campaign, all Hardware and Software will be released as Open Source.

Take a look at the campaign at: http://igg.me/at/bam-dice-2printbeta

We appreciate any comments, suggestions and improvements. Please support us !

kind regards,
Dominik - 2PrintBeta