ST has released a new evaluation board for a stepper motor driver. It’ll plug right into your 3D printer, and if you’re looking for a chip to build a cheap 3D printer controller board around ...

Building electronics with 3D printers is something we see hitting ... sensors to make the control via an Arduino and an L6234 motor driver easy. For his next trick, [pitrack] is going to test ...

BIQU (aka Bigtree Tech) is now offering the direct-drive extruder ... build it around a motor the same size as NEMA 14 (35 x 35mm) instead of the larger heavier (~42 x 42mm) NEMA 17 that seems ...

It doesn't have to be that way, and the proof is parked in his Knoxville, Tennessee, garage, charged up and ready for a drive ... of 3D printing and electric propulsion—where the motor has ...

While an inkjet printer sprays drops of ink on paper, a 3D printer extrudes hot plastic onto a glass or metal build plate. Two computer-controlled motors ... feels rough. Vertical curves and ...

In the photo right of a partially assembled dual-drive ... 3d printers.) Most extruders are single-drive (photo page bottom), but some better machines have ‘dual-drive’ extruders where the idler wheel ...