FT-5 upgraded to Core YX

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This has been along time in the works, but its finally here and well worth the wait! The back story is I got my first 3d printer for XMAS 3 years ago, a REPRAP Prusa clone which was a good printer. It could have been better knowing what I know now. However I onl wanted it to make the Hypercube, thank you Tech2C for an amazing design. Then I wanted a larger print volume, a friend said I have an FT-5 and love it. So for XMAS 2 years ago I got a FT-5. Hated the linear rails, but loved the Z axis, so looking at the Hypercube and FT-5 I thought why can't I have the best of both printers in one. I give you the birth of the FT Cubed. For this all I did was take out the linear rail system of the FT-5, used the Hypercube to print the XY components, made some changes to the firmware, had to set it up as a Core YX not sure if it was needed but mine works how i want it to homing in the front left corner. I get 300mm by 300mm and currently the full 500mm no need to go bigger yet. The best two things of the upgrade are the printer noise is down by well over 50%, and I can print at 80mm/sec with out fear of the printer throwing itself off my desk.