Hi John, > Am 01.09.2016 um 05:15 schrieb John Pickens <[email protected]>: > > Now I've gone and done it. I was accepted as an exhibitor at New York > Makerfaire October 1st and 2nd, 2016. > I have built a Ramps 1.3 Arduino Mega 2560 controlled delta printer based > upon the original Johann Rostock build with my own modifications. > It works rather well, but I bought the makings for a second printer when I > got the original stuff, because it was much cheaper for the second > printer's parts. I would have spent about $400 for one printer, and the > extra parts for the second one cost less than $200 due to savings > on quantity and shipping. > > Anyway, I have planned to build the second printer to improve upon the > first, and over the course of the last year or so, the Machinekit > project for FDM printers caught my eye. I went and purchased a CRAMPS board > and BBB, and now it is time to build. > > I entered as a Makerfaire Exhibitor with the express intention of forcing a > deadline on myself to make some serious progress on this project. > I will be bringing my completed Ramps/Arduino printer to the show, along with > the Machinekit/CRAMPS unit in whatever state it is in on > September 30. > > SO.... > > I was hoping that the members of this group could assist me in choosing the > path for a Newbie to implement Machinekit on this custom > Delta printer. > > As I understand it, the current SD card image for the BBB/Cramps > Machinkit/Debian is here: > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit > > And I should be loading the prebuild SD card image, which at this point is: > > 2016-08-28 > > BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit > > microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) Classic > > Get prebuilt image: > > wget: etc...... > > My first point of confusion is a thread in this group which says to go here: > > https://github.com/ilaro-org/machinekit/wiki > > Which is a Machinekit fork described as: > > Repository to work with machinekit in a BeagleBone Black with CRAMPS board. > It is a fork fromhttps://github.com/machinekit/machinekit and includes > additions to work with a linear delta printer and a delta printer with a > rotating nozzle plataform for multiple extruders. > > Now this sounds exactly like what I want to do, but I am wary of going to a > fork repository rather than the mainline Machinekit project.
first time I hear of this fork I had a look - the repo is at a state of late May and contains no changes to the code base proper but really configs and G-code fragments > > My questions are twofold: > > 1. Which Beaglebone Black/Cramps image should I start with? I think you will need to get the author involved (hi!) but gut feeling - this looks like a stock image plus minor local changes which do not affect the actual code base so no rebuild needed > 2. If it is best to start with the main Machinekit version, can I combine the > ilaro fork's add-ons for Cura Gcode conversion, etc. to the main fork version? At first glance I'd say there is nothing from keeping you from doing that; again I'd suggest to involve the author - Michael > > Any guidance would be appreciated. I only have four weeks to get this puppy > up and running for all to see. > > Thanks in advance. > John > > > > > -- > website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: > https://github.com/machinekit > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Machinekit" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
