Makerbot Replicator Mini Driver Download LINK

Ok I have been working to bring my makerbot replicator 2 back to life. I have replaced the arms with steal and put in a heated glass plate over the last year. I have just not been able to get cura to fire up with way I want it keeping the the plate and the extruder hat at the same time. I also a person that does not like playing sneakernet (popping the card from pc to machine while testing). So I broke down, grabbed a raspberry pi and went to town loading octoprint to see if it helped. It was the right move. It is still too early to tell if my config is working fully and I have a lot of tuning to due on the startup gcode but it is miles ahead of the makerbot desktop which is end of life. Here is why I like the setup. Cura does great at gcode, but the 3gx driver can be a bit kludgy to setup and hard to debug. Makerbot is a closed system making it even harder to work with (I luckily have a pre version 5 printer). I am not sure who made Octoprint but kudos to them. It is a awesome open source project I am going to look to help fund. The plug ins can be a bit difficult but they are fairly stable. Note I still need to get my start and stop code worked out and my camera and screen setup so there is more work to be done that said I now have access to all the new clicers cura wants to throw at me.

However I want to reuse the drivers that come with the makerbot to run the stepper motor. As you can see in the picture there's a socket for power, one for the Stepper connection and the wires coming out are what connect with the motherboard of the printer. I want to use these to connect with the Arduino instead somehow. Any idea how I should go about this?13701370 223 KB