I’m at the point of troubleshooting where I either give up and go for a bike ride, or seek help. So I’m seeking help, and then I will go for a bike ride! I am having an issue where I can’t get the gen 6 board to properly home. I have tried to home it …
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marlin, slic3r, pronterface and me
Ok. A recent move has kept me away from my prusa for a few months now. In that time all of the “cool kid” software has changed. Naturally I want to be running a similar setup with all of the new bells and whistles, so off I go. I am going to go about uploading …
Why NOT to buy a clonedel
For the uninitiated, a clonedel is a set of molds with which you can cast a reprap with polyester resin. It made a big splash in the reprap circles when it first came out, but Clonedels have really died off in popularity since then. I know why. It seems like a great idea. It can …
Go buy a Makerbot Grab bag!
I don’t remember who tweeted it, but I saw a tweet a week or so ago saying that the makerbot grab bags were a good deal. I looked at them and bought three. I figured that at $9 each they would be a good deal. even if they had nothing but the ftdi cable. I …
Reprap Prusa: pushing plastic, almost ready to roll!
Here’s an overview shot of the prusa, E-stop switch, and macbook. I still have to build the bed, but the rest is all there. Yesterday I flashed it with the sprinter firmware and I like it so far! The biggest thing is that it has acceleration. That enables lower torque motors to start slow and …
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super easy measuring rod
rulers are nice, but when you want to tell the difference between 470mm and 469mm, there is no better way than with a stick that is 469mm long. The reprap build instructions suggest you cut some sticks of precise lengths in order to verify that your threaded rod lengths are exact when the frame is …
completely unsorted reflections on building a clonedel
1) Last weekend I completed drilling out my clondel kit and started bolting things together. Here’s a list of things I realized. 2) Having precisely cut threaded rods is nice, but not necessary provided they are longer than spec. 3) Drilling out the metrix createspace clonedel kit is difficult verging on impossible to do exactly. …
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