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3d printer parts are in!

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.

The ord bot build has begun!

2013-03-21 03.10.17I 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_.

Building a 3D Printer

ord_bot_2-1-300x248I’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.