Re: How to Embed a Raspberry Pi into your Eggbot

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Windell Oskay
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It’s very neat that you can run Inkscape on the Pi, and I’ve added a link to your Instructable to our wiki.
However, the Pi is indeed an external computer– a full featured, tiny and cheap computer– that communicates to the EBB through USB.  

It is possible to run the Eggbot itself in stand-alone mode by reprogramming the EiBotBoard to store the drawings and run them on its own.  To do so is a bit more involved, and so we haven’t done much with this capability in quite a long time.
If you do want to drill holes in the Eggbot chassis, you should take extreme care when doing so, because the chassis is made of fiberglass; drilling fiberglass will produce dust that you don’t want to breath.