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    Yep, unlike their custom one you can do a lot more options with the other boards.
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:28 PM in forum: General Questions
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    On the C2 that has video and touchscreen on the R2 probably just touchscreen
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 23, 2019 at 1:23 PM in forum: General Questions
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    Something I just discovered today were these: https://www.pishop.us/product/pololu-socket-to-external-driver-conversion-board/ They basically...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 23, 2019 at 1:22 PM in forum: General Questions
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    If you get a different board you can't use the hex file. You need to use the Marlin source, configure it for your board -- and that custom board...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 23, 2019 at 12:44 PM in forum: General Questions
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    The steppers can draw as much as 3 amps if you tune them that high (1-1.5 amp/phase, two phases A/B)
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 23, 2019 at 12:19 PM in forum: General Questions
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    Y Axis Bearing Alternative

    Yea there are a lot of little extra things they could have done to minimize the noise and they didn't (probably in favor of cheap as they could...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 23, 2019 at 12:18 PM in forum: Mods and Upgrades
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    It will seem like a bit of extra work on the R2/C2 because you either hook a monitor up to the pi and download the arduino compiler on the pi and...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:20 PM in forum: General Questions
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    And you don't need to write much code, just be able to read it. The one file you need to edit a lot (configuration.h) has a lot of good comments...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:17 PM in forum: General Questions
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    We can help It is not really hard :) The controllerboard/smoothie/arduino+ramps --> that is where the firmware runs and it must be customized for...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:16 PM in forum: General Questions
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    Let me just clear this up then ... There is almost a zero percent chance of that. At a minimum the new ones will be a different motherboard type...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:44 PM in forum: General Questions
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    Like I said if my board starts acting up I will invest the effort into replacing it with a generic one, but as long as it is printing I am having...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:27 PM in forum: General Questions
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    :) Yep, it is just reading GCode. The R1/R1+ did the same thing it just didn't come with a Pi/OcptoPi installed. A lot of folks added one (me...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:26 PM in forum: General Questions
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    Anyone upgrade Y rods?

    (not that I intend for that to be serious)
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:59 PM in forum: General Questions
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    Anyone upgrade Y rods?

    March 5th of this year? Might be a bit longer. :)
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:58 PM in forum: General Questions
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    It is not quite as simple as just swapping the boards. Since the power supply is 24v and none of the classic R1 style boards (Arduino Mega, RAMPS)...
    Post by: mark tomlinson, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:47 PM in forum: General Questions