Category: RepRap
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Powerups for OctoPrint
There are some additional steps you can take to enable the limited OctoPrint user to do more, as well as some choice plugins that will make your OctoPrint experience better. Here I will take you through some of those steps. I’m assuming you have followed my earlier blog post about how to Setup Octoprint from…
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RepRap Electronics
Christmas and New Year brought a little slack time from work, and whilst I had a few hours between family and sleep, I managed to setup this website as well as start off a small electronics project for a new 3D Printer control board. The design goals were simple – make it upgradeable using off…
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(2020) Proper Leadscrew Integration
The great thing about children getting older is that they sleep better, and all of a sudden you start to find that some of that free time comes back to you. With an incomplete Mendel90 looking at me every time I go into the garage, I decided now was the time to get that project…
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(2017) Mendel90 Frame Fitup
Instruction sheets in one hand, allen keys in another, I set to work on the Mendel90 kit. From my past experience with FoldaRap, I knew I wanted to use ACME leadscrews for the Z-axis. FoldaRap used M5 threaded bar with 0.8mm pitch. Great for precision, but at 8000 steps per 1mm of travel, it takes…
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(2017) Enter the Mendel90
Why a Mendel90? Why any 3D printer? In all honesty, I want a D-Bot (or similar derivative) – Core-XY head with the bed only moving on the Z axis. This is different to the majority of 3D printer designs today, where the head moves on the X axis, which is mounted on a gantry that…
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(2017) ReCalibration
At the end of 2015, my wife and I moved house. We said goodbye to what had been our home for the past 7 years and moved up the road to a bigger place for our expanding family. Speaking of expanding family – babies really eat into your free time. FoldaRap went to bed and…
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(2013) 3D Printer Control Board
Traumflug created a very robust setup with the Gen7 electronics, and I wanted to make use of that step up for my own project. I had a small problem with it though – all of this was based around an ATX power supply, and I wasn’t using one of them. And it was using a…
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(2014) J-Head for Foldarap
After some experiments and prints with the original Print head for FoldaRap, I decided that it just wouldn’t cut it. The J-Head for RepRap was betting much more love and E3D had launched their very successful all metal hot end as an alternative. I really wanted one of those. Using OpenSCAD I designed a mounting…
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(2013) Building a 3D printer
2013 was a busy year for me. Having got married the year before, I decided that it would be a good year to make a 3D printer. After investigating many RepRap projects, I settled on FoldaRap. This was on the basis that it folds away, so it wouldn’t take up too much space in our…