[olpc-nz] OLPC Drives RepRap now

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Vik,

is there any reason to keep this away from devel at lists.laptop.org ? Do
crosspost there :-)


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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Vik Olliver<vik at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> At long last I have code to drive a RepRap using an OLPC. It's just a
> couple of command line utilities written in C that can generate gcode
> and dump it to the serial port.
>
> The next release of the RepRap hardware should be capable of running off
> a car battery for 16 hrs - should be in beta in a couple of months.
> Currently it costs 5x what an OLPC does, but we'll try and improve on
> that. It looks like we're rapidly converging on a 3D printer that will
> be usable in developing countries.
>
> Vik :v)
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