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 Features:
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 *   Interrupt based movement with real linear acceleration
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 *   High steprate
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 Differences and additions to the already good Sprinter firmware:
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-*Look-ahead:*
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 Marlin has look-ahead. While sprinter has to break and re-accelerate at each corner,
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 lookahead will only decelerate and accelerate to a velocity,
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 This is only possible, if some future moves are already processed, hence the name.
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 It leads to less over-deposition at corners, especially at flat angles.
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-*Arc support:*
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 Slic3r can find curves that, although broken into segments, were ment to describe an arc.
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 Marlin is able to print those arcs. The advantage is the firmware can choose the resolution,
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 and can perform the arc with nearly constant velocity, resulting in a nice finish.
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 Also, less serial communication is needed.
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-*Temperature Oversampling:*
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 To reduce noise and make the PID-differential term more useful, 16 ADC conversion results are averaged.
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-*AutoTemp:*
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 If your gcode contains a wide spread of extruder velocities, or you realtime change the building speed, the temperature should be changed accordingly.
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 Usually, higher speed requires higher temperature.
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 If the target temperature is set manually or by gcode to a value less then tempmin, it will be kept without change.
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 Ideally, your gcode can be completely free of temperature controls, apart from a M109 S T F in the start.gcode, and a M109 S0 in the end.gcode.
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-*EEPROM:*
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 If you know your PID values, the acceleration and max-velocities of your unique machine, you can set them, and finally store them in the EEPROM.
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 After each reboot, it will magically load them from EEPROM, independent what your Configuration.h says.
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-*LCD Menu:*
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 If your hardware supports it, you can build yourself a LCD-CardReader+Click+encoder combination. It will enable you to realtime tune temperatures,
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 accelerations, velocities, flow rates, select and print files from the SD card, preheat, disable the steppers, and do other fancy stuff.
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 One working hardware is documented here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12663
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 Also, with just a 20x4 or 16x2 display, useful data is shown.
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 If you have an SD card reader attached to your controller, also folders work now. Listing the files in pronterface will show "/path/subpath/file.g".
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 You can write to file in a subfolder by specifying a similar text using small letters in the path.
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 Also, backup copies of various operating systems are hidden, as well as files not ending with ".g".
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 If you place a file auto[0-9].g into the root of the sd card, it will be automatically executed if you boot the printer. The same file will be executed by selecting "Autostart" from the menu.
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 First *0 will be performed, than *1 and so on. That way, you can heat up or even print automatically without user interaction.
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 If an endstop is hit while moving towards the endstop, the location at which the firmware thinks that the endstop was triggered is outputed on the serial port.
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 This is useful, because the user gets a warning message.
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 However, also tools like QTMarlin can use this for finding acceptable combinations of velocity+acceleration.
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 Not relevant from a user side, but Marlin was split into thematic junks, and has tried to partially enforced private variables.
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 This is intended to make it clearer, what interacts which what, and leads to a higher level of modularization.
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 some transfer is information (usually beginning with "echo:"), an error "error:", or just normal protocol,
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 An interrupt is used to manage ADC conversions, and enforce checking for critical temperatures.
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 This leads to less blocking in the heater management routine.
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 The second tells what axis this servo will be attached to. In the example above, we have a servo in Z axis.
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 The third one tells the angle in 2 situations: Probing (165º) and resting (60º). Check this with command M280 P0 S{angle} (example: M280 P0 S60 moves the servo to 60º)
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-*For RAMPS users:*
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 By default, RAMPS have no power on servo bus (if you happen to have a multimeter, check the voltage on servo power pins).
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 In order to get the servo working, you need to supply 5V to 5V pin.. You can do it using your power supply (if it has a 5V output) or jumping the "Vcc" from Arduino to the 5V RAMPS rail.
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 These 2 pins are located just between the Reset Button and the yellow fuses... There are marks in the board showing 5V and VCC.. just connect them..

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