New Kamikaze CNC image released
Beaglebone | Manga Screen | Redeem | Replicape | Toggle

New Kamikaze CNC image released

Kamikaze is a Debian-based eMMC flasher image for BeagleBone Black. It is a complete solution for Replicape and Manga-Screen aiming to contain all software needed to slice a model and print it without installing any additional software. And it has now been updated! The latest image has an updated Octoprint 1.2 which now has CuraEngine…

New BBB flasher with kernel 3.14, Native path planner and a web UI
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New BBB flasher with kernel 3.14, Native path planner and a web UI

The last weeks have been spend making a new BeagleBone Black flasher image, one with an updated kernel, the latest Redeem and a whole lot of graphics goodies. The image with instructions can be found here. The most important changes from the last image is the native path planner in Redeem. Mathieu Monney has done…

Replicape printing a tree frog
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Replicape printing a tree frog

Hey, I took a video of the Replicape finishing a print last night: The video shows the Thing printer, which is a demo-printer for displaying the capabilities of the Replicape and the Manga Screen and also for developing Spline, which is a all-metal remotely cooled dual Bowden extruder that I’m working on. Here is a…

Writing Clutter apps on BeagleBone Black using Python
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Writing Clutter apps on BeagleBone Black using Python

Clutter is a great SDK for writing hardware accelerated GUI apps for embedded devices. It can run on X and Wayland, but it can also use the framebuffer directly and bypass the overhead of a display manager completely, ideal for embedded devices. I have spent the last few weeks working on getting Clutter to run…