This was first mentioned during the announcement of the S5 Pro back in 2022. I’m curious if anyone from the C3D team could share whether any peripherals have been developed since, and if there are any plans for upcoming releases in the near future?
Thanks 
Continuing the discussion from Introducing the Shapeoko 5 Pro:
We’ve got a jog pendant that’s being worked out (after years of trying a dozen different approaches and then throwing them in a drawer for future thought).
It was going to be S5 only, but we decided to make it USB so it’ll work with all machines. The code and the hardware are close to done, now we need to work on the mechanical. The goal is to do it in a way that we can ship units sooner, rather than later.
I like my Rii Mini Keyboard for jogging, as it’s the best option available. But I’m excited for a legit pendant.
That should continue to work, but the big thing we’ve been working on is reducing latency for the jog inputs. We don’t think we’ll ever quite get to where we want to be with the whole QT UI framework in the way. (And, we’ll never really be confident that a “stop” signal will never be lost, so that limits how aggressive we can be with the jogging code)
Moving to a USB connection, with no framework in the way, has made the whole thing a lot more responsive than the keyboard or mouse has ever been for us.
Will anything be made publicly available so folks can hack up their own pendants?
I clearly have a preference here but I wouldn’t be too sad if the answer is “probably not”
Just gives me another peripheral to buy and another project to tackle 
Regardless, I’m super looking forward to proper responsive(enough) pendant 
Probably not. But, the keyboard option will remain for those that have hacked their own option together.
With our pendant, we’ll likely change the UI so that you only jog through the pendant, and the screen defaults to a more dense rapid position and set zero page to make the whole flow more efficient and less “clicky”.
I’ve only been using my machine for a few weeks, but I’m seriously ready for automatic tool changes.
That is already in the community, the thing is. The cost is about as high as the cost of the machine and unless someone approaches C3D ready to pump out hundreds at a crazy good cost there is no incentive to officially support it. Even then they would want a contract, a company that can support pumping out replacement parts as needed in small-medium batches, all sorts of things you just wouldn’t expect would go into this.
All that just for a low sales volume medium to low margin item.
Sorry to revive this thread but what about a modular addon for the S5Pro to guarantee homing repeatability. It could be a little checkbox that you can enable in Carbide motion and is basically some overengineered (because it was added later) form of a high accuracy limit switch for the opposite end of the current limit switches that would actuate and give us a near absolute position of the machine to guarantee repeatability after a crash, bit break etc. The Bitzero is nice but it’s a pain and not always 100% because of human error. But if the zero is already set and the machine used a guaranteed method to home then there is no misalignment it is guaranteed to be within the margin of error of this new addon set of switches.
I don’t think there is any amount of time under 10 minutes I wouldn’t trade to be able to guarantee I’m going to hit that same spot especially in anything with a flip or if I was say working in aluminum and broke a bit or lost a step but I could go back into the program do all my editing and be able to shut the machine off come back and start it up whenever I’m comfortable with it and not have to set a zero again and just roll it with the new program.
This is especially usefull for people who work with high value materials.
It could replace a current endcap of the S5Pro assuming the extrusions are all CNC cut to within a decent tolerance. Or could just have an adjustment kit to account for any differences.
You can already do that with existing features.
Take a 1/4” end mill( or what ever size you prefer) and drill a hole into your waste board or work holding. Then set up a macro to return to that location at a higher z hieght.
Initialize the machine change tool to a ground rod or broken end mill in the correct size. Then use the macro to go to your known location and you should be able to manually jog plunge into the hole.
Z axis can be do in a similar fashion.
Or you can machine a block that’s attached somewhere and use an edge finder and do some math.
But is that even reasonably faster than the machine traveling to the opposite x/y to recalibrate its position in space?
Pick one……
It would take less than a minute to check absolute positioning this way on x and y.
After homing you would click 3-4 buttons and the machine return to your check location. Then you manually lower z to verify position in the bore.
The issue is if you don’t trust the calibration procedure on one end why would you trust it on the opposite end of the axis? plus you would have to add 3 homing switches to the machine to be able to know it’s location.
It all comes down to if you don’t trust homing you can only verify by going to a hard point as I’ve listed.