[KwartzLab] 3D Printer: Next Steps

[Eric Gerlach]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:52 AM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
> I'm a software engineer.  I don't have Kevin's hardware smarts.  My
> plan is to hack Skeinforge (and possibly the FiveD firmware) until we
> can generate GCODE that is compatible with our firmware.  Some of the
> hacking will just be Skeinforge configuration settings (the goal is to
> come up with a machine configuration file that works with our
> printer).  Some of the hacking will involve adding new configuration
> settings to Skeinforge so that we can accurately describe our hardware
> and firmware.  I'll contribute the changes back to Skeinforge.
> Ideally, I shouldn't modify the firmware unless necessary, I should
> try to make Skeinforge work with our firmware, not vice versa -- that
> way, my changes will be useful to a larger group of people.

Make sure you keep your hacks on a separate branch of the source tree
so that we can rebase on the mainline as development moves forward.  I
know I probably don't have to say that, but I've made the mistake
myself a few times :-)

Cheers,

Eric