Ed,
I am not certain I am interpreting your comment The firmware doesn't apply
acceleration limiting, which I regard as a major limitation on performance
and dependability correctly, but if you mean that the firmware doesn't do
acceleration at all (it is either full speed or not moving), that is
I have been looking at this technology myself and have a
machine half built - I found a design via the reprap page
which incorporates a milling head as well as an extruder so
that, in theory, the parts can be 'finished' in situ after
they are made or maybe even as they are being built. I have
I am not a big fan of the various hybrid machines and repstraps (for people
unfamiliar with the terminology, a reprap is a printer made from printer
parts (REProducing RApid Prototyper), and a RepStrap is a printer made
without printed parts (in theory used to make the printed parts for a real
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 23:54 -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
that is a limitation of the Makerbot firmware.
As nearly as I can tell, ReplicatorG has become sufficiently
intertwingled with the firmware that it's best to not stray too far from
the beaten path, so I'll continue to use the 2.7 firmware
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com wrote:
The fact that the computer inside the printer is a PC running EMC2,
instead of a microcontroller running something else, is largely
irrelevant. From the outside, you feed either printer with G-Code from
Skeinforge it
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com wrote:
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 23:54 -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
that is a limitation of the Makerbot firmware.
As nearly as I can tell, ReplicatorG has become sufficiently
intertwingled with the firmware that it's best to not
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Colin K cwk@gmail.com wrote:
For a long time I was very skeptical of the whole machine that makes its
own parts aspect as I thought, why bother, aluminum extrusion is cheap?
I am actually working on a design that uses the printed parts, but replaces
the
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Colin K cwk@gmail.com wrote:
For a long time I was very skeptical of the whole machine that makes its
own parts aspect as I thought, why bother, aluminum extrusion is
cheap?
I am
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Colin K cwk@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Colin K cwk@gmail.com wrote:
For a long time I was very skeptical of the whole machine that makes
its
own
