And Finally: Sailfish
So after owning my Makerbot Replicator 1 for nearly 2.5 years now, I finally upgraded the firmware to Sailfish. Why has it taken so long? I was under the (very) false impression that you’d have to use ReplicatorG to do all your slicing (these days RepG feels super clunky/slow to me). As it turns out Sailfish allows you to use more slicers than Makerware does: You only need a special cut of RepG to update the firmware.
Install took maybe 15 minutes, just because I was taking my time. Did the initial print at 120mm/sec, and it turned out great (above). Crazy to see my machine printing that fast with quality results: usually I let it run at 90mm/sec.
Interesting things:
- http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:32084 (custom cut of RepG to download)
- http://www.sailfishfirmware.com (Full manual, etc)