Hydra: Multiheaded Manufacturing Machine download

Arduino firmware and Java GUI for the Hydra Multi-headed Manufacturing Machine (Hydra-MMM). The Hydra is a cartesian positioning system that has multiple, independent toolhead mounts for a wide variety of attachments. See: cpwebste.blogspot.com

Features

Upload Gcode Files to Cartesian Robots (Reprap, Makerbot, diy CNC, etc)
Firmware support for up to 4 toolheads (extruders, spindle, pick-n-place, etc)
Gcode File Previews for simple viewing of what a program will do
Acceleration kinematics computed and used for linear movements to allow for smooth and fast translation
Option to use external stepper motor drivers or use the built-in stepper library functions with external FETs for a very cheap motor driver with microstepping
Firmware support for large number of standard Gcodes and simple addition of custom codes to that library
Slave PID temperature control using a second Arduino

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Screenshot of Hydra GUI and File Preview window

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allinmadison Posted 2013-06-23

Hydra-mmm is great! Thanks.
julyz Posted 2010-05-10

Very promising multi head cnc RepRap Based!

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