Controlling your CERA-1 extruder

[cera.tops]

Hi all,

Many of you have questions around controlling your extruder.  I originally was using a custom-made controller to handle separately driving the ram and auger motors, but I highly advise that instead you look into actually controlling both motors directly from your printer's main board.  This requires two things:

1.) You need a printer board with drivers for TWO extruder motors.
2.) Your printer board's firmware must support COLOR MIXING (also sometimes called "virtual" extruders)

Here's a thread at another forum discussing a similar topic:
https://community.octoprint.org/t/color-mixing-using-multiple-extruders-to-1-nozzle/16443

Best,

Bryan