i ended up spending time merging the two forks of mecode. the newer-worked fork based on older-code does not pass tests. i got some of the tests passing, but not all, and integrated the testing into circle-ci. the partial work is at https://github.com/xloem/mecode now, but i am hesitant to share it in the group post i made because it is not stable and i am unlikely to maintain it.
i did get the printhead moving around in my test.py . the reason for the long delay was because the rate i was setting is also the travel rate. i think i need to set it to move the extruder (like another axis) if i want to see filament.
