My guess is that the Big LISA will come in over $1K by the time I'm done. If it's $2K, that's not great, but it won't stop the program. If I get it done in 6 months and two passes, that's fantastic.
As far as a "normal" printer goes - somebody needs to get the Marlin boys working on the firmware. Yes I could do that, no I'm not raising my hand to do it. For right now the Python code looks like an adequate way to go. I'd rather get things up and running with Python and then mess with firmware at some later date. The whole end stop issue also needs to be checked out if I indeed need it (I'm about 99% sure I will).
As far as a "normal" printer goes - somebody needs to get the Marlin boys working on the firmware. Yes I could do that, no I'm not raising my hand to do it. For right now the Python code looks like an adequate way to go. I'd rather get things up and running with Python and then mess with firmware at some later date. The whole end stop issue also needs to be checked out if I indeed need it (I'm about 99% sure I will).