32-bit linux printer host software October 09, 2021 01:28PM |
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why not print from SD cards..?
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the_digital_dentist
As my rustic grandmother in Tennessee used to say, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear".
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Re: 32-bit linux printer host software November 03, 2021 12:18PM |
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4ndy
An upgrade would be possible but undesirable for now. I want to avoid wasting perfectly serviceable circuit-boards given the huge amount of energy that goes into mining and processing the materials for them.
Also I prefer to have the desktop GUI of things like Pronterface, so using this netbook would be ideal for me. I don't like faffing around with a rotary input and menus.
Can anyone actually answer the thread question?
Someone had to have used reprap host software on 32-bit GNU/Linux in the past since there was apparently some demand for it, just low demand now. What was the last thing that worked and how did you set it up?
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the_digital_dentist
@4ndy you wouldn't be wasting a perfectly good circuit board, you'd be freeing it up for another project that needs stepper motor drivers and a gcode interpreter. Maybe something like this:
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If you search through posts here from several years ago, there were a LOT of problems with sending gcode via USB to printer controller boards. Printers would stop and stutter while a print was running because the gcode buffer would fill up or empty and then there would be a delay getting the next line into the controller. That causes print surface quality problems, as you can imagine. Very early in my 3D printing "career" I was using a laptop to stream gcode to my printer with an arduino/RAMPS board. The very first time I tried a print that took over an hour, my laptop went to sleep and wrecked the print. That got me thinking about how unreliable USB can be for many different reasons (including my cat who like to chew on wires) so I added an LCD panel with SD card reader and found it extremely reliable and used it that way for years. Prusa machine still use SD cards because it is so reliable and so cheap.
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Re: 32-bit linux printer host software November 03, 2021 09:59PM |
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Since I started using a Pi with octoprint to control the printer the Pi never sleeps so the interruptions are non-existent and I have never had a bad print since I added the Pi over a year ago. Buffer issues are a thing of the past with USB for me now.
Re: 32-bit linux printer host software November 08, 2021 03:19PM |
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I was aware of the issue but AFAIR have never run into it myself in the last several years. It sounds like it may be a problem that only shows up at high print speeds and/or low baud rates, or may be an Arduino hardware limitation.Quote
the_digital_dentist
If you search through posts here from several years ago, there were a LOT of problems with sending gcode via USB to printer controller boards. Printers would stop and stutter while a print was running because the gcode buffer would fill up or empty and then there would be a delay getting the next line into the controller.
You should have set power/sleep settings to Always On, and set a timed shutdown if you actually wanted it to sleep when it finished.Quote
the_digital_dentist
my laptop went to sleep and wrecked the print.
Nice idea, so what software works to do this?Quote
the_digital_dentist
If you must connect a computer to the printer, use the network interface.
Are you saying that you have also only managed to get 32-bit host software to run on Windows? Has nobody still around here managed to get it running on Linux or remember how they did it?Quote
VDX
mostly running with Windows-PC's ... but should be running on Linux too ... was then with Python 2.7 and not got it to port for Python 3.2 and further
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