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Will's Fabber Blog: Penny wise, pound foolish
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Penny wise, pound foolish. Xylotex three-axis controller with power supply. Xylotex four-axis controller with power supply. So I'll plan to pick up a 3-axis controller and run it with LinuxCNC. Is also very popular but I'm not about to run DOS on any machine that could be running Linux. The mechanics cost about $300 including shipping. The steppers cost $75 (I got them from RRRF. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map. Will's blog (everything else). Talks ab...
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RoboSlave: Favorite Links
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This is a fantastic resource for learning about anything to do with circuits. Since I don't know anything, this really helps. Great Sumo Bot Kits. One of my favorite electronics sites. They always have new products and great tutorials. Inexpensive PCB manufacturer (a partner company of SparkFun). A schematic and board layout program, for FREE! Easy to learn, check out SparkFun's tutorials. A great source of general electrical parts. A great source for all sorts of small machine tooling. An open source ra...
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A Wulf's Perspective: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. No-Knead Bread and Pizza Making Class. Monday, March 23rd. 2009. I gave my second No-Knead Bread and Pizza Making Class for the Seattle Free School. At the Cascade People's Center. 12-15 people showed up to my first class I did on February 5th which went extremely well, especially since it was my first. (with a write up from one of the attendees blogs. 1) bringing 'sugar' instead of 'flour' to make bread. 2) no pizza pan to cook pizza on. 4) being totally disorganized. Mix thorou...
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Steve's RepRap Journal: December 2008
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It's So Crazy, It Just Might Work. Saturday, December 6, 2008. Yesterday, one of the Y belts slipped again. This caused the carriage to skew slightly. Which caused the Y flag to miss the opto. Which caused the carriage to crash and snap the Y flag. I readjusted the Y axis yet again and replaced the Y flag. Currently putting everything back together. Apparently, on putting it back together, I swapped the pins on the extruder motor. Caused a bit of confusion for a while but no damage. What I'm Working On.
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Steve's RepRap Journal: Chain of Events
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It's So Crazy, It Just Might Work. Saturday, December 6, 2008. Yesterday, one of the Y belts slipped again. This caused the carriage to skew slightly. Which caused the Y flag to miss the opto. Which caused the carriage to crash and snap the Y flag. I readjusted the Y axis yet again and replaced the Y flag. Currently putting everything back together. Apparently, on putting it back together, I swapped the pins on the extruder motor. Caused a bit of confusion for a while but no damage. What I'm Working On.
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Steve's RepRap Journal: March 2008
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It's So Crazy, It Just Might Work. Saturday, March 22, 2008. Blobs #2 and #3 both broke free of the base before the build completed. This prompted me to search for a substrate that would hold the build in place and be relatively easy to remove afterward. Tried a bunch of things, most of which don't work. Now I just need to find a way to make flat sheets of polymorph. Posted by Steve DeGroof. Thursday, March 20, 2008. It's a bit wibbly and it leaks. Definitely not toast-worthy. The X, Y and Z scaling's pr...
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Steve's RepRap Journal: February 2008
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It's So Crazy, It Just Might Work. Friday, February 29, 2008. Spent the evening drilling out the corner blocks. Four vertical holes with a 5/16" bit (roughly 8mm). Five horizontal holes (one around back) to clean out the trapped nuts using a 5/32" bit (roughly 4mm), followed by an M5 screw to clean up the threads. Posted by Steve DeGroof. Also noticed that the diagonal tie brackets don't have trapped nuts. Not sure how I'm going to attach those to the frame. I'll have to improvise. Posted by Steve DeGroof.
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Steve's RepRap Journal: April 2008
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It's So Crazy, It Just Might Work. Friday, April 4, 2008. Having a lot of trouble getting a reliable extrusion. I had two PTFE barrels, both of which are distorted too much to be useful. I had two extruder clamps (one quick-fit, one regular). Both have suffered heat damage. I'm beginning to think that the current extruder design just can't do HDPE reliably. It wasn't really designed to do it in the first place. Posted by Steve DeGroof. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What I'm Working On.
