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Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?

Posted by sellingbin 
Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?
December 18, 2009 02:59PM
Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?

I would like to build this over this weekend.
Re: Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?
December 18, 2009 03:32PM
Sure, can't see any problem with that
Re: Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?
December 18, 2009 03:35PM
Thanks Grogyan.

Also, Does anyone know where I can get all the circuit boards with complete assembly made? This way I can just attached the boards when I'm done and wire the thing up. Looks like RepRap provides us with the Gerber files. Will that suffice?
Re: Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?
December 18, 2009 06:21PM
sellingbin Wrote:
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> Thanks Grogyan.
>
> Also, Does anyone know where I can get all the
> circuit boards with complete assembly made? This
> way I can just attached the boards when I'm done
> and wire the thing up. Looks like RepRap provides
> us with the Gerber files. Will that suffice?

[store.makerbot.com]
You can buy the complete electronics here. The only soldering is the endstops, which is easy enough. AFAIK, MakerBot is the only place you can get fully assembled electronics.
Re: Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?
December 19, 2009 09:58AM
I have no problem buying the electronics from Makerbot, however, I just looked at the Makerbot store and it looks like they are sold out of most items.

I really would rather not wait until February to get this project done.
Re: Can I make my McWire bot base out of wood instead of steel tubes?
December 20, 2009 04:52PM
Looks like the full assembled electronics kits are back in stock at store.makerbot.com.
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