I always feel like its Christmas time when I get parts in the mail. So I got the power supply, the extruder, the stepper controller, drivers, and a bunch of other stuff that I may or may not need. I’ll post more pics and comments as I start to put it together, here’s some pics of what I got.
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3d printer parts are in!
Posted by superfro
on April 12, 2013
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Building a 3D Printer
Posted by superfro
on March 18, 2013
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I’ve been thinking of putting one together recently. I have a Makerbot I can use at my hackerspace. But I’d like to have one at the house. So shopping around I decided to go with the Ord Bot platform, Automation Technologies sells a good kit for the base platform but it’s missing some things like the extruder/electronics/bed. I ordered that. Just got my shipping notice.
I was greeted with a package today containing some of the parts for my 3d printer (ord boy hadron). So late last night I spent about 6 hours putting the frame together. I can’t say the assembly documentation was well spelled out, it was just barely enough to get it done. And even then I know I put some parts on wrong. I’m not worried about it though I just wanted to roughly put it together, as I have no electronics other than steppers at the moment. So I’m still waiting on the extruder, heat bed, controller. I didn’t bother running wires or aligning the rails. It moves pretty good but I need to take the gantry off and flip the mounting bracket for the extruder, also some how I have the stepper on the wrong side for the y axis even though it shouldn’t matter. I feel good about it, there were some annoying things like the front foot didn’t mount well. The holes in the aluminum weren’t tapped and the only tap I had was a cheap chinese one that didn’t work _at all_.