The Smoothieboard. The future. It’s here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsu_vAKvRO0
Great review, as usual. Has anyone tried the Delta auto calibration feature of the Smoothie? Does it actually work? Because I could not get the Marlin flavors to successfully finish an auto-calibration yet.
@Shachar_Weis Delta calibration works quite well in Smoothie. See http://smoothieware.org/zprobe
I’d like to see cross-ports between things like RAMPS-FD+ArduinoDue and Smoothie… More firmware options are good. Or unified firmware between all the major ARM boards, just as Marlin offers the same for all the ATMega options.
@Electra_Flarefire The same way Smoothie aims at unifying 3D printer / Laser / CNC milling electronics/firmwares, we would also like to be the Marlin of ARM platforms 
We sure are very open to anybody contributing work in that direction ( we have someone moving Smoothie to cortex-M4 at the moment ).
@Arthur_Wolf , we’ve already been eyeing the ARM boards(Mainly the RAMPS-FD) for a large(NEMA 23 based) Delta but the lack of firmware options kept putting us off. This is also an interesting option and we’ll keep an eye on it!
@Arthur_Wolf will it be one cross-platform branch or a mostly independent fork?
@Thomas_Sanladerer The goal is a single cross-platform branch. However it’s going to start as a separate branch for M4 at the momemnt, until we get everything working, at which point it’ll merge back. It’s going to require a bit of added abstraction though, which is why we do it separately at first.
@Elias_Bakken , what do you think it would take to get a Replicape/BBB to @Thomas_Sanladerer for review? I seriously think that Redeem and the BBB is a contender to this. Especially given that the PRUs on the BBB enable some very high speed motor control, without having to drop down to low level ARM coding without an OS.
@ThantiK alternative option to replicape would be CRAMPS, particularly as its $100 cheaper.
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http://pico-systems.com/osc2.5/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=35
Tim, I’m thinking that too. I asked about redeem supporting cramps. Big benefit to bbb is that it’ll also handle all the OctoPrint stuff on TOP of what smoothie can do.
@ThantiK You don’t really need all the power of a bbb to serve a neat web interface, nowadays everything happens in the browser anyway … We are working on a project for Smoothie called Mousse, which is pretty much Octoprint + Laser/CNC milling stuff + Board configuration with wizards + basic CAM stuff, all in the browser, all directly served by the Smoothieboard.
@ThantiK agree. When I looked at 32bit stuff a few months back BBB looked to be the obvious candidate given given its got so much more i/o than a vanilla raspberry pi. CRAMPS made sense as it built on all those RAMPS iterations. BBB could also happily handle closed loop operations for when we finally start seeing ‘position aware’ repraps.
@ThantiK , that would definitely be doable! @Thomas_Sanladerer would you be interested in a test of Replicape? Sorry if I’m stealing the Smoothie thread, it looks like a great board:)
Wow, @ThantiK , thanks for mentioning Redeem, will check it out. BTW I’m a current user and lover of Smoothie, but also happen to have a BBB and CRAMPS board.
@Brad_Hopper What’s your experience of CRAMPS? I came very close to buying one but went for Azteeg x5 (Smoothie) as it looked like smoothieware was less beta.
Glad you liked my thermal design enough to mention it 
I put a lot of work into it!
@Triffid_Hunter you can achieve so much with so little when you know what you’re doing. Great work on the board!
I’ve backed the Smoothieboard back then when it was on kickstarter and have it lying around for quite a while now. Shame on my i haven’t built a printer based on it yet. Really should do.
@Erik_van_der_Zalm http://www.linux-arm.org/LinuxKernel/LinuxM3
I thought the M3 core and other ARM architectures were fixed by ARM and licensed out as a complete package - is that not the case?