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: 2016-08-28BBW/BBB (All Revs) MachinekitmicroSD/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. My questions are twofold: 1. Which Beaglebone Black/Cramps image should I start with? 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? 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.
