{"id":11119,"date":"2014-10-01T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2014-10-01T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:15:31","slug":"3d-printer-actually-controlled-by-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11119","title":{"rendered":"3D printer actually controlled by a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several people have claimed<\/a> to have a 3D printer ‘powered by a Raspberry Pi’. It has always turned out that this meant that there was a Pi in there somewhere, but actually it was being controlled by something else and the Pi was being used to send the raw data to the controller.<\/p>\n

Now, in what appears to be a first, Owen Jeffreys has developed a custom 3D printer which is\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0100% controlled by a Pi. He’s produced all the parts of the machine himself and has developed a custom circuit board which is linked to the Pi via ribbon cable.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the printer by viewing this Vimeo page<\/a>. Thanks to Mark Pearson for spotting the story over on 3dprint.com<\/a>. Take a look at the video below for a tour around the printer.<\/p>\n