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- jipjip August 2014
3D printer control
Hi There, I'm the happy owner of an Ultimaker v1 3D printer. For my exhibition I would like to be able to push some G-Code directly to the 3d printer arduino from processing. Despite my (long) search for bits of code, I couldn't find anything. Does anybody have an idea, link piece of code that could help?
In details what I wanna do is:
- capture an image via camera
- make a canny edge detection then "vectorize" the lines
- translate the 2D vectors into Gcode with 1 or 2 layers height
- communicate with Arduino from Ultimaker to launch the print
Thanks a lot for any help!
Answers
You could take a look at the Polargraph controller, it does step 1, 2 and 4 for drawing 2D images out of webcam images. It uses a custom gcode-like language to communicate with the "printer", could be a useful first step for you!
https://github.com/euphy/polargraphcontroller