[dundee] Building an Open Source 3D printer

[Tom Paynter]

Hi Gordon,

I have used the Due, the main reason I used it was because it has the
native usb port so you can have a decent communication speed with a pc.
Much the same to work with as the AVR based Arduinos, the 3.3v logic
levels makes it a little easier to interface with a lot of other ICs for
example SPI flash and ADCs.

I'm currently building a floppy drive for recovering 8inch floppys, I use
the Due for that. Come along to the makerspace monday evening if you fancy
having a go with it. I do most of my development on Fedora, the IDE in the
repos does not support the Due but the binary on the Arduino website works
fine.

Why are you interested, have you got a project in mind?

Cheers,
Tom


On Wed, April 1, 2015 11:24 am, gordon dunlop wrote:
> I read a very interesting article on opensource.com by Dr. Joshua Pearce
> of Michigan Tech about how he runs a course for building an open source 3D
>  printer. The article has links to the materials list and build process
> for this printer.
>
> http://opensource.com/education/15/3/open-source-3d-printing-course
>
>
> As an aside to this, has anyone used either an Arduino Mega2560 or
> Arduino
> Due in preference to the basic Arduino Uno?
>
>
> --
> Gordon
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