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5x Button Macroboard with JST-XH connector

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Macroboard with 5* 12x12mm buttons

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This is a very compact design for a 5 button macro board, that requires a bit of hardware you might have laying around

Printsettings:

  • 0.2 or 0.15 layerheight
  • at least 2 walls 
  • each at least 6 top and bottom layers
  • 20% infill
  • Material: PLA, PETG or ABS

BOM (might alter for you depending on how you connect it later):

  • 4x M3x6 SHCS (for backplate)
  • 2x M3x8 SHCS 
  • 4x M3 5mm long heatinserts 
  • 1x JST-XH 6pin (board side)
  • 1x dupont 6pin (pi side)
  • 5x 12x12mm button like this
  • some thin wire 

instruction:

  1. Cut plastic pins on the backside of buttons flush 
  2. straighten the pins
  3. insert buttons fully into top part
  4. bend button pins inward
  5. insert jst connector
  6. solder cables up like in picture 2&3
  7. insert heat insert into front part
  8. input m3x8 into bottom part 
  9. screw on backplate with m3x6
  10. prepare a cable 1:1 Jst to dupont
  11. prepare klipper config and insert [include micromacro.cfg] in printer.cfg
  12. plug dupont into pi (GND is right pin looking from the front)

Happy printing! please make sure to post a make.

 

 

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