Playing with RAMPS

Today I started looking at the Arduino firmware.  As mentioned previously, I already own an Arduino Mega 2560 board and Arduino 1.0.5 is installed on my PC.  I fitted the RAMPS 1.4 board on the Mega, opened the Arduino "sketch", changed the hardware to RAMPS (1.3), option 33, compiled and loaded it onto the board.  No problems there.

I then fired up PrintRun (Pronterface), and connected to the electronics.  Again, no problems there but the expected failure to read any temperature inputs (none connected so far).  But it communicates, recognises the firmware, all looking good so far.

The chipboard base was also cut (freehand, this is temporary).

And just for fun, a photo: