got a bit more along with the set up here. starting in with the wiring, and trying to figure out where they were mounting the terminal blocks. got that figured out (thank goodness for zip ties!), and had a chat with the inventables gang (good bunch there!) about attaching the terminal blocks, and the fact that the nema 17's come with about 2 feet of wire, whereas the 23's only have about a foot (kinda hard to run the far side motor across the x axis). the solution is to mount another terminal block, snip the wires from a 17 (good thing i have 2 left), and run the 23's wires to the block, then the borrowed wires from the block to the other side via the x axis. since i have a terminal block in the shopping cart, along with the other goodies that i will need for this slightly longer build, i'll be able to get a bit more done. hopefully in the next week or so, when the weather is more cooperative, i can move this from here to the shop and finish up the build. also, i have been working with sketchucam, converting all of my state and car cribbage boards (with this bigger setup i may go with my bigger 120 point state boards), and celtic knot trivets, from sketchup to gcode. there have been some bumps that way, but nothing that redrawing a few here and there won't solve.