TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. DIY electronics authority Arduino is releasing a 3D printer in collaboration with Italian 3D printing specialist Sharebot. The Arduino ...

The final step was to control the motors on the printer so that the drum indexes to the correct position, lining up the Sharpie where it needs to be. We did this with an Arduino microcontroller.

In fact, if you’ve got a 3D-printer, it can be remarkably straightforward ... [Maker 101] gave the Arduino an infrared sensor which can pick up signals from a simple IR remote control.

The filament passes under the encoder wheel before it’s fed into the 3D printer. The encoder is hooked up to an Arduino which measures the Gray code pulses as the encoder rotates, and the ...