Wiring two stepper motors on one stepper driver I’ve had a couple of questions about whether its possible to drive two stepper motors with one driver, for instance to control a printer such as Prusa I3 or similar which…
I have gotten a few requests for an expansion board to accompany the Replicape lately, so I have made an inital version for anyone interested in adding more extruders than the standard two present on Replicape. The Reach board uses…
Hey, I took a video of the Replicape finishing a print last night: The video shows the Thing printer, which is a demo-printer for displaying the capabilities of the Replicape and the Manga Screen and also for developing Spline, which…
Most distributions for Beaglebone comes with the 3.8 version of the Linux Kernel, but since the BB is still quite young there is a lot of development going on and there are some advantages to upgrading to a newer kernel,…
Clutter is a great SDK for writing hardware accelerated GUI apps for embedded devices. It can run on X and Wayland, but it can also use the framebuffer directly and bypass the overhead of a display manager completely, ideal for…
Texas Instruments recently (Nov 18 2013) released the alpha version of the SDK 5 for the SGX530 3D engine that is built in to the BeagleBone (black). The 3D engine interface is special since it is one of the few…
OPKG for Beaglebone black If you have made a cape for the BeagleBone (black), made the device tree to go along with it and you have flashed the EEPROM as you should, chances are that you also need some software…
We went to the MakerFaire in Rome. It was nice : )