[Noisebridge-discuss] reprap status report

[Meredith L. Patterson]

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> The RepRap team is busily beavering away on various parts of the
> problem.  Turkshead is working on the "McWire Cartesian Bot" frame:
> http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/McWire_Cartesian_Bot_1_2
> and I've characterized the control electronics and am placing orders for
> the PCBs (from rrrf.org) and components (from Mouser).
> http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/Generation2Electronics

I got in touch with a friend who has a TechShop membership and has used
their laser cutter extensively, and he's already said that he'll be
happy to lasercut the various acrylic parts that McWire uses.

> * figuring out a better way to drive it than their Arduino-clone
> schemes:
> http://www.reprap.org/pub/Main/Generation2Electronics/single-arduino-with-valve.png
> (I have some opinions about this, we should talk if you're interested in
> doing something better.)
> 
> * Attacking the host software problem.  If someone is interested in
> learning the RepRap Java software, that would be *great*.  If interested
> in developing more robust software, that's awesome too.

Which one of these is the "ZOMG who needs error correction?" problem?

--mlp