What actually does the extruder controller do? January 08, 2011 04:17PM |
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Triffid_hunter
the "i2c" lines to the motherboard carry step and
dir signals, you can simply hook another pololu to
these and many have done exactly that
using the A3949 chips on the extruder board to
control a stepper is a nasty hack that works
rather poorly, they're simply not designed for it
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