O.o
http://gizmodo.com/windows-8-1-is-getting-native-3d-printer-support-585571287
We really need (should have done a long time ago) to move to printers with USB communication natively. None of this emulated serial junk any more. I wonder what it would take to get an all-encompassing RepRap USB ID, and then define a standard for identifying your printer so that the software knows brand, etc after initiating communication.
I was under the impression that USB before 3.x was too slow…?
@Eric_Cha it’s not USB that’s too slow…heck, USB 1.1 would be faster than what we’re using now. Right now we’re using FTDI chips, in order to connect to USB, and then those FTDI chips talk via serial to the Atmel chips we commonly use. I’m sure you’re used to selecting a baud rate of 115200, or 250000 baud? 250,000 baud is only 250kb/s. USB 1.1 low-bandwidth is a theoretical max of around 1500kb/s, USB 2.0 however…286 720kb/s, up to 480,000kb/s - quite a hell of a lot faster than what we’re using now.
USB 3.0 has a Bit rate of ~2.5GHz and a clock rate of 5 GHz. Way faster than required.
I believe makibox is payed for a USB ID, I am not sure the story is on using it for other machines, but it is owned.
@ThantiK - thanks for the information! I’m not an EE type guy so I don’t follow that stuff too well, but I get the gist of what you’re saying.