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Single Arduino Question

Posted by Willow Schlanger 
Single Arduino Question
April 11, 2008 02:15PM
If I make a reprap with a Single Arduino, will it be able to fill foam? Does it have only one extruder? I read somewhere that a "complete" rep rap - the Darwin - is the PIC model that has 2 heads. What does that mean??? Is one for foam and one for polylactic acid?

I don't want collisions between multiple heads (extruders). So I only want one. What I really want is a high-tech physical snap system so there are tool heads, like a variety of colored pencils that can be fetched and written with or extruded etc., and then put the old tool back and retrieve the new tool.

That way we could fill foam and switch tools to fill polylactic acid.

Or am I totally wrong with my assessment?
Re: Single Arduino Question
April 11, 2008 05:52PM
Actually, you've hit the design pretty much head on.
Re: Single Arduino Question
April 12, 2008 12:38AM
The whole switching heads idea made some progress some months ago, and the heads were just going to be lined up along the side of the machine. I don't know about how far they have come since then.


Jay
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