Where can I get new Solidoodle 3 Extruder? (Page 2 of 2)

I just checked and its showing as out of stock at RRD.  Personally, I love my RUMBA but if it ever dies I'm getting a smoothieboard.  It's barely more expensive and a lot more powerful.  The future

Sounds like I'm for the first time ever one step ahead of ward on this one hehe. I've got a smoothieboard running in my frankendoodle right now, just swapped out the Rumba for experimental purposes.

Both hosted with a raspberry pi and octoprint, printer otherwise the same.

In this configuration, there's really no difference in performance, reliability or usability between them at this stage, and Marlin's development is much faster and more dynamic than smoothieware's. Marlin actually has a few features smoothiware doesn't have (thermal error cut-offs, etc.) and development is much more... er... dynamic.

I think if you plan to use the virtual serial port over ethernet, or upload gcode to the sd-card over ethernet, then the smoothieware's built-in ethernet could potentially cut out the raspberry pi / octoprint from the toolchain (but then, monitoring not really practicable).

Otherwise, swappable drivers and Marlin are both pros for the Rumba. I'm nearly considering going back...

I'd be interested to get some notes from other smoothieboard users about things they've done with theirs that makes for an improvement over a good ramps/derivative+marlin setup.