List of Abandoned and Deprecated Firmware
This page holds a list of all abandoned, deprecated and/or out-of-date firmware.
For firmware that is currently active and being developed, see List of Firmware
Contents
Hydra-MMM
- Author(s)
- Clayton Webster
- Status
- stale as of May 2010
- Short Description
- Hydra is a multi-headed manufacturing machine that was originally being designed and built for ME463 (senior design) at Purdue University.
Features
- used for multi-headed machine
Compatible Electronics
How to download
Downloadable from sourceforge in a zip file
Documentation & Misc. Notes
The only documentation is on the wiki under Hydra-MMM Software and Firmware
Generation 2 firmware
- Author(s)
- Who knows
- Status
- superceded by FiveD firmware
- Short Description
- This appears to be an early prototype of the FiveD firmware
Features
unknown
Compatible Electronics
How to download
All the links for this firmware are dead. It is probably buried somewhere in the past of the reprap FiveD repository
Documentation & Misc. Notes
Documentation appears to be at Generation2Firmware
Gen2OnABoard
- Author(s)
- Nick McCoy
- Status
- stale since Aug 2010
- Short Description
- This is an experimental fork of FiveD for the Gen2OnABoard electronics. May not actually work.
Features
- stepper extruder
- extruder speed control
- movement speed control
Compatible Electronics
How to download
Downloadable from github by running:
git clone https://github.com/reprap/firmware.git
Documentation & Misc. Notes
Documentation is non existent
Generation 3 firmware
- Author(s)
- Who knows
- Status
- likely dead
- Short Description
- This appears to be a dead branch of firmware. The firmware date is 2008-08-05
Features
- can support SD cards
Compatible Electronics
- Generation 3 motherboard v1.1 and v1.2
How to download
Version 1.2 appears to be the last version and it's in a zip file here.
Documentation & Misc. Notes
The only mention of Gen3 firmware is in the wiki at Generation3Firmware
- documentation for the communications between host PC and electronics is in a Google Doc
Tonokip
- Author(s)
- johnnyr
- Status
- superceded by Sprinter
- Short Description
- Tonokip is a firmware rewrite based off of the Hydra-mmm firmware.
Features
- Same as FiveD???
- Can read SD cards???
Compatible Electronics
How to download
The real repository appears to be downloadable by running
git clone https://github.com/johnnyr/Tonokip-Firmware.git
HOWEVER, for some reason, it's also in a subfolder along with the FiveD firmware. So it looks like you can run
git clone https://github.com/reprap/firmware.git
and the firmware is in the Tonokip_Firmware Directory
Documentation & Misc. Notes
Appears to have been forked off as Sprinter firmware
Klimentkip
- Author: Kliment
- Status
- superceded by Sprinter
- Short Description
- This was originally a fork of Tonokip but is now called Sprinter
Features
unknown
Compatible Electronics
How to download
You can still download from Kliment's github repository by running
git clone https://github.com/kliment/Klimentkip.git
Documentation & Misc. Notes
Can't find any documentation and the firmware is officially defunct now
