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1.3 KiB
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40 lines
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This firmware is intended to be a fully object-oriented highly modular control p
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rogram for
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RepRap self-replicating 3D printers.
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It owes a lot to Marlin and to the original RepRap FiveD_GCode.
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General design principles:
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* Control by RepRap G Codes. These are taken to be machine independent, thoug
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h some may be unsupported.
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* Full use of C++ OO techniques,
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* Make classes hide their data,
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* Make everything as stateless as possible,
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* No use of conditional compilation except for #include guards - if you need t
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hat, you should be
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forking the repository to make a new branch - let the repository take the
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strain,
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* Concentration of all machine-dependent defintions and code in Platform.h and
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Platform.cpp,
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* No specials for (X,Y) or (Z) - all movement is 3-dimensional,
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* Try to be efficient in memory use, but this is not critical,
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* Labour hard to be efficient in time use, and this is critical,
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* Don't abhor floats - they work fast enough if you're clever,
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* Don't avoid arrays and structs/classes,
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* Don't avoid pointers,
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* Use operator and function overloading where appropriate, particulary for vec
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tor algebra.
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Version 0.1
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18 November 2012
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Adrian Bowyer
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RepRap Professional Ltd
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http://reprappro.com
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Licence: GPL
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