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Axis Underground CNC
■ UP 64ms · checked
on The Vortex’s BBS list
- address
- axisunderground.hopto.org:2322
- listed by
- Rev. J. Money
- runs
- bbs, cnc, Custom, esp32, firmware, MicroBBS, Retro, telnet · 4 nodes · Telnet
- where
- Myrtle Beach, SC , USA
- added by
- bbs hq on The Vortex, not yet verified as its sysop
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AXIS Underground CNC is a bulletin board built the hard way: no PC, no emulator, no Raspberry Pi.
The whole BBS runs on ESP32 “Cheap Yellow Display” boards, the $15 kind with a 2.8 inch touchscreen.
Several of them on one LAN act as a single system, so you can be on node 1 while your buddy is on
node 3 and you’ll still share the same message bases, files, chat and oneliners. If the main board
drops, another one takes over.
It’s the home board of RotatoCAM (4 axis rotary CNC software) and the JMSCNC shop, so the file areas
lean hard into machining: RotatoCAM releases, CNC freeware and shareware, G-code and toolpaths,
3D models, CAD/CAM software, plus ANSI art packs, scene artpacks, Game Boy
homebrew and Rev J Money’s music.
What’s on the board:
– Full ANSI with eight complete art packs (Axis, CRT, Haunted, Deep Sea, Occult Cathedral, Skulls,
Underground, Wasteland), each with its own matrix, login, menus and waiting-for-caller screen
– ViSiON/3-style lightbar menus and login sequence, with a poster
– A !!NEW!! ESP32 Native code remake of the classic: Legend of the Red Dragon
– Message bases: General Chatter, CNC Shop Talk, RotatoCAM, Buy Sell & Trade, BBS Scene & ANSI,
Ask the Sysop, plus private email
– Teleconference, split-screen chat, node notes and broadcasts
– Oneliners, rumors, voting booth, top ten, last callers, a BBS list
– A Renegade-style WFC screen for the sysop, on the touchscreen and over telnet
The firmware is open source (GPL-3.0) and written from scratch for this hardware:
https://github.com/revjmoney/axis-bbs.
Coming next: FidoNet and fsxNet mail, and a LoRa mesh
radio bridge.
New users are welcome. Apply at the matrix (NUP: rotatocam) and if you get stuck, page the sysop.
is it answering
answered 4 of 4 checks · reliability 100% · answered in 64ms last time
one mark a dial, oldest first — green answered, red did not. 4 kept, since ; the directory calls every board every night and remembers six months of them.
the score
nobody has scored it yet
six axes, one to ten, rated here or inside the BBS list on The Vortex — one score, either way. a rating fades with age, so come back and rate it again in a season.
sign in to rate it here — with a BBS HQ account, or your Vortex handle.
their screens
every screen this board has drawn for a caller before login — 2 so far, since . a board that changes its welcome art keeps every screen here; one we stop meeting on our regular calls is let go after three visits and six months. the art belongs to its sysop and its artists.