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by willcanine 3007 days ago
yes, we love smoothieware! it's existence is one of the main reasons we're able to offer this tech at such an unheard-of low price. we've forked it (available here: https://github.com/Opentrons/SmoothiewareOT) to work with our OT-2 motor controller, which has more stepper drivers than the smoothieboard and is designed to fit on the head of the robot to minimize cabling. full board design (as well as all of our electronics designs) are going up on github in the next few weeks!
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Great to hear. I work very closely with the project (hardware QA), as well as RepRap. I have followed your machine for quite some time. I have mentioned it to pretty much everyone I know who is in the field of chemistry/biology or does fluid handling.

I bet things are a lot easier now that Smoothie has true 6 axis :)

It is great to see so many OSHW projects get going in the last few years. Excited to see what the next few years brings.