Adventures in 3D printing
Progress on the build has been somewhat slow recently (almost non-existant for a couple of months). I eventually caved in and bought a J-Head MK IV hot end from ebay for £21.99. and an Airtripper extruder for £15.95. I have made some progress however with the wiring and neatening up some of the cables. Here you can…
Made some more progress with the build. Connected up the belts on the X Axis: Close up of Motor end, the metal T2 Gear came with the motor: Close up of X Carriage: The Belt is T2 and about 740mm long, it is a continuous belt that came out of a printer I scrapped, you…
I finally started cutting up the shelving boards from Homebase, and contrary to what it says on their website, they are not made of MDF, they are in fact made of chipboard. I have my own cutting list, which is not quite the same as the one used in the BOM, but based on my…
Well I am still not happy with my Prusa frame, but I have not completely given up on it yet. I have glued the Nylon Screw Insulators into the various holders and glued these into the X axis ends, these slide reasonably well along the smooth rods, but will probably be better with a little silicone…
I was having a look at the various Panelolu designs. More specifically at how to wire one up at the Think3dPrint3d website and decided that I needed to have a go at simplifying the wiring for use with an I2C connected LCD.I am not using an SDSL per se, but an off the shelf Micro SD card…
I bought a few items from RS on a visit to their Hounslow branch and revived my account that had been dormant for nearly 10 years! JST 2mm pitch 6 way connectors for running new wires to my Steppers (50 pack for £3.30)Crimp Contact Pins for the connectors (50 pack for £1.60)ATmega1284P-PU Microcontroller (£4.55 each)Nylon Screw Insulator Rail bushings…
I am as interested as the next guy in saving money. I also want to make my own things. One of the items I have been interested in making is the 20mm T-Slot from Thingiverse shown below: Say for sake of argument I was wanting to build a Prism: This uses 9 x 400mm lengths…
Looks like I may indeed have destroyed one of my stepstick drivers due to my own stupidity, of course you can’t measure current across 2 pins, you can only measure it in-line, now the diagram did show this, but I was obviously not thinking at the time, and the description was not idiot proof! The…
First things first, I need to make a cable that can connect from a stepper motor to the connectors on my sanguinololu. The stepper motors use JST 2mm pitch 6 way connectors, with a similar 4 pin connector for the wires that are actually connected. The connectors I have installed on the sanguinololu are JYK…
I was browsing through the new items on Thingiverse when I found an item that made use of a screen and referenced a different firmware – Marlin. I had a quick read and thought it would be worth a try, cloned the github repository, downloaded yet another version of Arduino (0.22), I now have 4…