Hi everyone, new Reddit user here !Bit of background: I’m a software developer by trade with a lot of experience in general computing so I’m pretty technically competent.I’ve always been interested in getting involved with 3D printing, I’ve contemplated many times about buying a 3D printer but never ended up going with the impulse!The problem: We’ve now ‘inherited’ a 3D printer. A friend’s husband passed away recently and he was an avid model enthusiast so naturally a 3D printer appealed to him.We’ve been given his printer that we know has worked (and we’re assuming does still work).The issue is that we are complete newbies when it comes to 3D printing, we’ve never got involved in it before so we could really do with some help.What we know so far: – We’ve worked out that it’s probably based off of a ‘Prusa i3’ printer – The control board looks like a ‘Melzi Hybrid’ – The printer has worked in the pastWe have some 1.75mm PLA filament which was supplied with the printer, but that’s it.(images of the printer are below)I know that there’s different types of extruders, firmware, stepper motors, control software etc. But we have no idea how to find any of this out !Does anybody know where we might start?Any help at all would be really appreciatedIMAGES: http://ift.tt/2vXT2Be http://ift.tt/2whmDZ0
