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A powder substrate rapid prototyping machine
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Pause the printing #30

Open columbus1231 opened 10 years ago

columbus1231 commented 10 years ago

Any one know of a way to pause the printer preferably with a pause button. I needed a way to temporarily pause the printing action and then continue where the printer left off so I can be able to do modifications to my workpiece.

Pwdr commented 10 years ago

That's a feacture currently not included in the firmware/software. But it's pretty easy to implement, it only takes one conditional loop in the firmware and an extra key binding in the software.

Will you manage to write the code?

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:56 PM, columbus1231 notifications@github.com wrote:

Any one know of a way to pause the printer preferably with a pause button. I needed a way to temporarily pause the printing action and then continue where the printer left off so I can be able to do modifications to my workpiece.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Pwdr/Pwdr-Model-0.1/issues/30.

columbus1231 commented 10 years ago

Thanks for your comment. Well I guess I will have to learn how to write the code. Anyone know where I could find a similar code so I could insert it into the pwdr firmware. Or even where to learn how to write the code.

Pwdr commented 10 years ago

Learning how to code is always a good idea :) You'll find lots of Arduino or Processing tutorials to get you started!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:13 PM, columbus1231 notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for your comment. Well I guess I will have to learn how to write the code. Anyone know where I could find a similar code so I could insert it into the pwdr firmware. Or even where to learn how to write the code.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Pwdr/Pwdr-Model-0.1/issues/30#issuecomment-46433248.

columbus1231 commented 10 years ago

After doing a bit of research, I decided to use a while loop. Is that a good idea? Also, I had looked into interrupts but decided not to use them. Was I correct?

Pwdr commented 10 years ago

A while loop is the best suited option.

On Wednesday 18 June 2014 at 19:09 , columbus1231 wrote:

After doing a bit of research, I decided to use a while loop. Is that a good idea? Also, I had looked into interrupts but decided not to use them. Was I correct?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/Pwdr/Pwdr-Model-0.1/issues/30#issuecomment-46464510).