Sausagefingers Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Hi all. New to PICO and new to this forum. I have a number of questions but I'll start by asking the one below as it will have a bearing on all the other questions I may ask over the course of the coming weeks and months. I want to use the 3 axes (X,Y,Z) of the PICO to drive what is essentially a mini cnc machine for winding electric guitar pickups. Without going into too much detail, I want to explore the possibility of using a PICO - possibly with a Klipper, Moonraker, Mainsail configuration - on a Raspberry Pi 4. In short, the hot bed, extruders, thermistors etc. would be surplus to the requirements of the design. My question is this: Is it possible - and how much work would be required - to disable as much of the 3d printing functionality of the board as is possible via the configuration to achieve a 3 axis solution? I already have a 'working' winding machine that I designed a few years back using a combination of Arduinos and RAMPS using Marlin firmware. It works OK, albeit cumbersome and built on aging, slow technology. Piggy-backing the PICO on the Pi is an appealing proposition. Thanks for any input on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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