AgeingHippy, I am having the same issue you are having with my exturder controller. Did you recently buy yours from Makerbot?by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
haha yeah, i have some older computers, yet none with a serial portby Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Thanks Viktor. For those Canadians out there we finally found what we are actually supposed to use: Digikey USARTby Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Ok, Ok. I think I found a viable replacement. Only question is, is the Vcc 5V of 3.3V on the Reprap cable? I assume 5v, but have had to reorder parts enough times that would like some confirmation, lol 5v cable 3.3v cableby Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Viktor, Sounds like you did what we did, but we couldn't get ours to communicate. Did you use the USB comms on an arduino board, or separately?by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Hey thanks, We were actually looking at Robot Shop but noticed they don't use all the same 6 pins that the RepRap version does (Reprap says CTS and RTS and the Robot Shop one use DCD and DTR, are we can't seem to track down the datasheet for the Reprap one, lol)). Does anyone know if this works with the Reprap motherboard? We tried using our Arduino Duemilanove by intercepting the CTS# and RTSby Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Ok, We caved and ordered the electronics from Makerbot, and now we need the cable..... Duty is killing the cost effectiveness of this project and we would love to not pay anymore. Does anyone in Canada sell this cable, or should we just hook up MakerBot with another $30.00 for shipping? Thanks guys!by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Figures I would find it right after I posted this. Have fun!by Adam.m.Nelson - General
I am just wondering if anyone knows who I am talking about. Must have been 5 or 6 months ago now I was talking with a guy who was making batches of 3mm PLA filament, they opened a business around it. They sent me some samples, and it seemed great. I have completely lost their contact info, and want to get a hold of them again . Does anyone know who I am talking about? Thanks in advance.by Adam.m.Nelson - General
hey will do, We are currently looking for interested ppl. If you know any good places to advertise let me know . (we have an ad up on Kijiji)by Adam.m.Nelson - Canada, London RUG
haha thanks other rob. I stopped by a month or more ago and checked it out in person . We are tying to setup something similarin londonby Adam.m.Nelson - Canada, London RUG
hmmm, thanks a bunch for your help guys, I will try that and go from there.by Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers
Hey guys, Instead of making a Mendel you might want to consider making this McWire Bot . Its much easier to construct then a Mendel (as parts can be hard to find for a Mendel) and you can use it to make a Mendel afterwards if you want.by Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers
That was obvious, yet I hadn't thought of it Never the less no effect, I did notice that I get a different error if I try to open the file by right clicking and telling it to open with gEDA QuotegEDA Status ** Invalid UTF-8 in log message. See stderr or gschem.log. o_text_draw: assertion `o_current->type == OBJ_TEXT' failed I tried opening another mendel schmatic and got this error below (by Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers
QuoteRRRF Found an invalid whichend on a pin (reseting to zero): 8571648 Found an invalid color [ ] Setting color to WHITE I edited this error message so it wasn't so long and annoying to scroll past.by Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers
Hey, I have been trying to open the schematic file for the stepper driver and I seem to be failing hardcore. My Linux experience is relatively low, I have been using it for 6 months or so. I get the impression I am missing some files or extensions, with my limited experience I don't know how to correct this. Anyways that said, here is/are the error(s) I get in the status window when I try toby Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers
Hey bothacker, Are you willing to share your breakout boards design files? or are you looking to sell them?by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
They (sparkfuns boards) are working great on my X Y and Z axis, I don't know about the extruder, i am waiting for the new motor to come in.by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Ok, I've got a weird one for you guys. Hey Stephen, I got the code configured and loaded, but i am having issues. I can't seem to get anything to report back from the Arduino. If I leave the Arduino board on USB 5V and common ground the boards i still get nothing. If I run the Arduino off on the 5 V from my power supply (with common grounds) weirdness breaks out. RepRap will report 0 degreeby Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Hey Stephen, I got your code configured and loaded, but i am having issues. I can't seem to get anything to report back from the Arduino. If I leave the Arduino board on USB 5V and common ground the boards i still get nothing. If I run the Arduino off on the 5 V from my power supply (with common grounds) weirdness breaks out. RepRap will report 0 degrees C but the Z MAX LED comes on. it onlyby Adam.m.Nelson - RepRap Host
oh, i guess i should have been more specific (I noticed the chip change). I was wondering why they changed it i suppose. Thanks for the answer though.by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Hey, We've decided to just build our own board for the last stepper driver we need (the ones we have are too weak for the extruder). While searching around the wiki i found reference to stepper driver 3.0. Does anyone know what the difference with 3.0 is? Or should we just go with 2.3?by Adam.m.Nelson - Controllers
Yeah, i found a fancy converter online Umm I am in Canada, which I should have probably posted originally (postage from au might hurt a little lol). Thanks for the response though.by Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers
Does anyone know a good place to pick up a Nema 17/23 0.4Nm or greater? Or does someone have one for sale? Maker bot seems to be sold out, and Sparkfun's steppers look to be too weak. We seem to be finished our build minus the extruder stepper being too weak, so we need one stepper to finish the buildby Adam.m.Nelson - Reprappers