Thursday 13 October 2011

It moves - in 3D

 I now have movement in all three directions at the same time, after some futzing with the Z axis.  Here is proof:


The noise in the background is the lasercutter.  You can faintly hear the motor noise if you know what to listen for.

TODO:
Find, test, fix and mount opto endstops.
Talk to Dieter about right screw for extruder.
Or go to RepRapSource.de/RepRap-Fab.org and buy a full extruder for ~€75 (without motor).
Mount extruder and go! :)
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1 comment:

  1. Dust13 October 2011 at 15:34

    you do realize your going to get about 3mm/s with this? At that speed a non footed vertex takes about 6 hours to print, a X-axis motor takes 16 hours!
    have a read of http://dustsreprap.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-repstrap-turning-and-prusa-mendel.html and my other posts

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