Out with the old and in with the new. I had no idea what RAMPS was until after I had decided to get a Mega board and wanted to figure out how to interface it to replace my old Reprap motherboard that was itself trying to be an updated Gen3. You see the old motherboard there above and the new Mega below. I also got a general shield to interface to the mega. I will be scrounging the old connectors that will interface to the old reprap drivers. Eventually I may get the new shield that has the stick drivers ( I actually have one that I am using to drive my extruder). I am apparently retrofitting my Mega to become a Ramps like reprap using the old Reprap drivers.
I found a very interesting article that joins my two favorite things. Nano and desktop printing. I have been waiting for them to meet substantively.
I follow Reprap seeing what is happening, and I also follow the happenings in Nano Technology at nanowerk on a daily basis. Always something new. This was another of those crossover things. Nano manufacturing, I am waiting for them to become commercial and then hit the surplus market. ( I am so cheap ).
