Arduino-Based 3D Printer/CNC

I'm looking to build a 3D Printer driven by one of the standard Arduino boards. I know Adafruit has their V2 shield that can work with steppers (I've also noticed the grbl boards and the Arduino CNC board) and I've found multiple gcode interpreters and senders for Arduino boards. I've even seen code that makes an Arduino compatible with Repetier host. Can anyone tell me which compilation of boards and Arduino IDE-compatible software I should use? I'm pretty well versed with Arduino and 3D printing, but I can't seem to make sense of how to put the two together.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/03/2015 12:35PM by kman1863.

Is there any special reason why you don't want to use an Arduino Mega 2560?

That is what most everybody uses in the 3D world.

No particular reason, I'm totally open to that. Would that be paired with ramps, then?

Yes, The RAMPS is a shield for the 2560.

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I'm looking to build a 3D Printer driven by one of the standard Arduino boards.

What is a "standard" Arduino board? If you mean something like the Uno, they can theoretically be used but it's very bare bones electronics. You start having to make compromises because of fewer available pins.