User:Prof braino

Hi! I'm Prof Braino

The part of the project I'm interested in is applying the Parallax Propeller to the RepRap CNC

There's a discussion of this at

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?129448-Prop-based-CNC-3D-printer/

My first attempts is a mendel prusa with modified Wader's extruder, MakerGear hot-end, and Solidoodle Sanguino electronics.

This is to be a base line system. Once its working, the plan is to replace the Sanguino with a prop solution.

This should allow an apples to apples comparison for cost, complexity, accuracy etc.

This guess is that there may be some advantages to having 8 cores of 32 bits running at 80Mhz.

My other project is Propforth for the parallax propeller

http://code.google.com/p/propforth/

There may or may not be an advantage to using propforth for the printer firmware, but it should be fun to write.