Fysetc pays to Duet3D and the dc42 fork of RepRap?

Alishkus

@dc42 do you have patreon?
I had opportunity to compare both clone and original DUET Wifi boards
There are many many differences starting from components to assembly quality and even traces....
Clones are much much more likely to be shortened and burned.
Also there are missing many safety features, that original DUET board has, so I dont know if 20USD is worth burning your house :?

dc42

@sychan said in Fysetc pays to Duet3D and the dc42 fork of RepRap?:

Marlin seems to have large pool of committers, big feature set and the predictably uneven quality, while the dc42 RRF seems to have a very small set of committers and less features...

Are there any particular features of Marlin that you want, that RRF doesn't support?

Don't forget that RRF has some really major features that Marlin lacks: boot time/run time (instead of compile time) configuration, web interface, macros, flexible tool definition and management, additional axis support. Also, many features that Marlin has specific code to support can be implemented in RRF using macros and other standard features.

sychan

@dc42 I'm an unsophisticated hobbyist user and not focused on individual features, so much as general attributes:

Stability.
Usability - ABL using BLTouch, a good web GUI, good tools for monitoring printer status
Configurability - I had to edit header files and rebuild kernels in the 90's, but that's a 1990's workflow - hopefully it shouldn't need to be done very often in 2019
Safety - not interested in a long running print turning into a potential fire hazard due to poor thermal design on the controller board, shabby component specifications, or poor error handling in the software cascading into a catastrophic hardware failure.
Print speed and quality - I don't want processor speed and outdated algorithms to be the bottleneck in getting good prints at 100-150 mm/s print speeds.
Quiet - the Trinamic drivers seem to be the ticket

Dougal1957

@sychan and every one of those items you have listed are in RRF What features does Marlin have the RRF Doesn't?

A Former User

@sychan

you say apple products are not cheap and nasty, i disagree, they are some of the worst products on the planet, the only thing apple is good at is marketing and the sheeple lap it up.

if you disagree with me about apple providing terrible quality i suggest you look up a repair channel on youtube Louis Rossman

Go watch a few of his video's then come back and tell me that apple dont sell cr*p

apple are also proven to lie to their customers... all facts so please dont use apple as an example of quality...

A Former User

the real worm in the apple is planned obsolescence and the vendor lock-in that has a service department whose 1. priority is to sell you a new device.

anyways, back on topic; Fysetc clones are 1oz/35um copper top and bottom (or they were a while back), no idea about the other issues mentioned.

deckingman

I'm not sure why this 7 1/2 month old post has been resurrected but I doubt that having a pop at @sychan is having much effect - given that he only ever made 6 posts and was last online on 28th February 2019.

A Former User

@deckingman

who was having a pop ?

I was merely pointing out a fact, that in no way can apple be held up as a shining light of quality...

deckingman

@calvinx For sure I agree that Apple products may not be the shining light of quality but why wait more than 7 months to reply to a post that was made on 12th January, on a 3D printing forum, by a user who last visited these forums on 28th Feb to make that point? I'm not trying to start an argument but it just seems a strange thing to do.

zapta

@fma said in Fysetc pays to Duet3D and the dc42 fork of RepRap?:

You can donate yourself to dev. team

Are you sure? How?

Regarding Fysetc, they started to have their own PCB layouts such as the small footprint PanelDue 5i. Anybody knows if those layouts are open source?

T3P3Tony

@zapta as far as i can tell nothing they do is opensource, although obviously copies from us.

zapta

@t3p3tony, now I get the trade war.