Autonomous printing with your RepRap:
One of the main characteristics of 3D printers is their printing slowness: even if of 3Drag mechanic parts are able to exceed the speed of 100 mm per second in printing, an object still requires tens of minutes if not hours to be completed. In fact, as you have a bit more challenging fill or a massive object you easily get to one hour printing time, while those who are accustomed to print multiple parts in one printing batch, organizing them carefully on the printing plate, know that a print like that can take the whole night.
The solution to this problem lies into adding stand-alone printing features: an SD card containing the file to be printed, an LCD panel to display the status, menus and commands, and lastly a system for selection and input. All devices that can be connected to an Arduino board: our printer, like many other RepRaps, sports Arduino at the heart.
Via Open Electronics.