Tag: electronics

  • 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…

  • RepRap Electronics

    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…

  • (2013) 3D Printer Control Board

    (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…

  • (2013) Building a 3D printer

    (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…