I have a question, I revently found a old 3d printer in my brothers basement, apparently its a “nophead mendel 90” that he built years ago but then lost interest in.
I would love to try and bring it back to life, but I know very little about printing, and have no idea where to start. Is a printer this old compatible with modern slicers? What software would I use to connect to it via usb? I tried to do research on my own, but found very little useful info about how to actually get it working
Modern slicers can work with anything. At it’s core all printers simply run on G-code which is itself just a series of coordinate instructions telling the printer where to move the head. As long as you have the right sets of startup/configuration codes (which should be trivial to find online for any open-source project printer like the Mendel90 using the standard controllers of the era) any slicer will work with it.
Looks like the original project files made by Nophead are still available.