My goal with this project was to be able to dynamically know the filament status during the 3D printer operation. I developed this project by mixing design, 3D printing, electronics, software, and of ...

The printer will be powered by the Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller board and is created in partnership with Sharebot, a 3D printing company also based in Italy.

Arduino Materia 101 is, instead, an almost foreseeable and completely expected merging of two of the hobbyist world's most popular toys: microcontrollers and 3D printing.

Arduino, maker of the open source hardware platform of the same name, is teaming up with a startup called Sharebot to sell a 3D printer for about $1,000. Announced today, Materia 101 will be ...

In the end he had a working bootloader to which he appended the application firmware, but sadly when he powered up the printer there was still no joy.