Matt Thanks for the reply. I should have said that I'd taken Traumflug's advice and installed Teacup. I know that not many people are using DC extruders any more. One of the first priorities when I get the system going is to print the parts for a stepper extruder. At the moment I'm just working with what I've got. After all, there's no point in paying someone for the stepper extruder partsby ssloan - Darwin
I'm slowly getting there! After an number of problems - a dead LINUX PC, 2 out of 3 stepper driver dying, PWM problems - I finally bought an Arduino Mega and a RAMPS1.4 board. This has been so much easier to set up. I've got the steppers working and roughly calibrated and have even run a simulated build using Protaface. I also have the extruder heating. The last problem I have is that I cby ssloan - Darwin
Matt Thanks for the tip for getting the GCode_Interpreter compiled. After making this change I was able to load the software and test my Y & Z axis movements before my LINUX install died. Traumflug I've started looking over the notes for Teacup. I hadn't realised that there was anything else that would fit into a 328. Once I've got LINUX back up and running properly I'll give it a tryby ssloan - Darwin
Cameron and Matt Thanks for your replies. I have tried to load the GCode_Interpreter into the Arduino 1.0.5 software and when I try to do a verify I get an error message for the "char word;" line. I've not yet tried uploading this but I wouldn't expect it to work if it doesn't pass this stage. I've attached a screenshot and text file for the error I'm seeing and I was hoping that someone withby ssloan - Darwin
Thanks for the response Yes, that's the link to the Generation 2 setup I'm planning to use, along with an Arduino Duemilanove Atmega328 microcontroller. The link to the Github directory I downloaded from is here. I've copied all of the directories to the Arduino libraries directory but I'm still getting the errors. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Steveby ssloan - Darwin
Hi Folks I've just completed the mechanics of a Darwin RepStrap which was never completed and boxed up about 3 years ago. I'm now at the point where I need to install the firmware for single Arduino control of generation 2 electronics. I've downloaded the firmware from github but when opening and then verifying the single Arduino file I get an error that "'ThermoplastExtruder' does not name aby ssloan - Darwin