Alternative to Arduino Prusa i2...Launcpad tiva C?

Hi,
Here I am writing to you because I'm venturing to build a Prusa i2.
After documents, guides, tutorials, stl etc ... I'm starting to put a piece after another.

My question is, you can use a worthy alternative to Arduino?
What to do?

I hope to find someone with a good heart to give me a hand.
In particular, I find the makings of a board of Texas instrument:
EK-TM4C1294XL
We will also post a PDF of the guide so that it can be as clear as possible.
[www.ti.com]

Basically my questions are 2:
Do you think I can ride inside the ramps 1.4?
But above all ... how to connect everything you need for a Prusa i2?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

People are already starting to use Arduino due which is a Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU
There is also the 4pi and SmoothieBoard see [reprap.org]

Electrically all you need is a bunch of io lines (3 per stepper, endstops 3 or 6, hotend and heated bed via MOSFET, and any extras like lcd and sd card)
and some analog input lines for 2 thermistors and some serial lines for communications.

More problematic is firmware, your going to have to port something to your board or write your own... this is not trivial

You can buy a Duet controller board from either RepRapPro or Think3dprint3d. It has the same processor as the Arduino Due. It also includes 4 stepper drivers with current control by digipots, 2 heater drivers, 2 thermistor inputs, and on-board Ethernet. There is an expansion board available to drive another 4 heaters, steppers and thermistors.

The version from RRP uses pin connectors, whereas the version from TPT3 has screw terminals.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2014 03:28AM by dc42.

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Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].

I'd like to know if it's possible to use EK-TM4C1294XL .

It is possible, look here: [github.com]

Is anyone able to compile modern firmwares with delta printers support for this launchpads?

Tiva C launchpad just for $13 contains TI TM4C123GH6PM ARM Cortex-M4F microcontroller with FPU, 80MHz clock, 256 KB flash, 32 KB RAM and with many peripheral devices (USB support, UART, I2C, SPI, >40 GPIO and so on). Also, this micro-controller supported by Arduino-like 'Energia' with support of processing c++ code like Arduino.