The fact that it's going to be easier for beginners to use?dramsey wrote:Has this been announced somewhere?Jules wrote:The Rev.E basically takes a certain amount of control away from you. It sets a fixed size gap, once, and then that never varies. An experienced user will be able to make modifications to that through a separate process that's under development, (or through G-Code), but for a beginner it's gonna be a Godsend.
Beginners have more trouble with setting that gap, through either the Z-Stop or the Z-Offset, than any other issue. And neither of those has to be done with a bottom set Z-stop, and the new firmware.
That's just my humble opinion.
(I'm testing it now, and re-writing the Beginner's Guide. It's easier. Much easier. The firmware is totally different with the lower Z-Stop. As a matter of fact, it's so idiot-proof, that I was initially imagining problems that just weren't there, and I got rather frothed and wasted the better part of a weekend on it.
Fortunately, Josh clued me in on the coding changes that made it possible. Pretty slick!) Rick doesn't usually make announcements about improvements, he just asks for volunteers from the experts to test something, and then as they work back and forth to improve the machine, they resolve problems, fine tune it, and incorporate it into the next model. But anyone can follow along with the progress on the initial "Tester's Needed" thread, so forum members generally know when something is about to come out. And all the guys who tested it after install had nice things to say about it. Rick will let someone know when they have enough extras to offer for existing users as an upgrade.