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by wlesieutre 4170 days ago
My local makerspace has one, though I've not tried it myself. IIRC it's using a custom bracket (3d printed) to hold our dremel, but is otherwise should be standard.

The one problem I remember seeing was when somebody's laptop was running it and went to sleep and they weren't able to get it to resume the job when it woke up. Maybe there's a way to do it, but just making sure your computer is set to stay awake avoids the issue entirely.
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thawkins 4170 days ago
Most 3d printers which also use gcode, have an sdcard slot. Load your gcode file onto the sdcard, plug it into the printer and print from there. You dont need a computer connected at all, so nothing to go to sleep.
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wlesieutre 4169 days ago
The 3d printers, yes. The Shapeoko 2 runs off of an arduino and gets its data over a serial connection.

At least that's my understanding of it. I've never used it myself, only watched it run for other people.

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