I am in the process of building a new delta printer and I am about the select a control board. Looking at the hardware there are a number of options that will get the job done just fine, for example Duet Wifi, a Cohesion 3d with Trinamics 2100 or a Smoothieboard.
On my other printer I have done a couple of software tweaks to Marlin (menu changes to suit my use case better) and I think I will do that for this printer as well (even though I don’t know exactly what yet). I would like to contribute it if it turns out good enough.
So looking at the state of the software projects the original RepRapFirmware looks dead and the dc42 fork is the one that people are using? The Smoothieware project looks healthy enough (but what about the 2.0 project?). Am I missing something? Anyone that have done some work on any of the projects and can tell if they are easy or hard to get into or have some other insights?
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admin edit: I’m glad to have a conversation with you about rrf etc, and I won’t censor it, but please don’t go to other posts just to advertise it that’s just toxic.
Hey.
Sorry I didn’t catch this, if you look at the forum it’s extremely rare for a post to go un-answered. Possibly because this was more “request for news/opinion” and not “help I’m drowning in trouble”, I put it aside for later and forgot. Thanks to Lukas for digging it up in his campain to promote his switch to Duet 
Smoothie is built from the ground up to be as easy as possible to modify/extend, and the project is extremely welcome of contribution ( as long as you are fine with honest criticism of code quality/structure, we can be very strict there, but it’s for the good of the project ).
v2 is coming along very well, we should have news on the hardware very soon, but the firmware pretty much controls machines already.
If you have questions don’t hesitate to email directly : wolf.arthur@gmail.com
Cheers.