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I performed an engine conversion on a VW kombi and needed a solution for the air intake system and decided to print the parts
air intake adapters
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Look what I made!
I am looking for a PCB design program that can generate gcode suitable for my reprap, at the moment I use Eagle software, can GSCHEM be obtained for free?
I have just attached a drill to my reprap in the hopes of milling PCB's, I use marlin. My problem is how to convert an 'Eagle' board drawing into direct readable gcode for pronterface without too much modifying,
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psilocin
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CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
Hi all
I have built myself a filament extruder and want to experiment with recycled plastics, has anyone tried printing with the various plastics such as HDPE, LDPE, PP,PE,PS and how do they fare, pros and cons?
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psilocin
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Printing
Quoterhmorrison
Belts too loose, gear slipping on X or Y axis stepper motor...
Thanks, it was exactly that!
Y belt stretched, due to the fact that I cant get my bed temperature up to 110 degrees, so I tried to (temporarily) close in the bed to help raise and maintain temperature, it worked but ended up causing the belt to stretch due to the heat.
problem solved
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psilocin
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Printing
HI all
I have been printing for several months now, everything has been fine until yesterday, when all of a sudden a noticed that holes and circles in my prints suddenly were no longer round but slightltly oval with little bumps on the sides.
I have not been able to rectify this by re-installing software, (I thought maybe corrupt files) and I actually have no idea on how to fix this. Has anyone e
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psilocin
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Printing
Yeah, thats basically what I am thinking, thanks for the link.
I see what you are saying and I agree that one nozzle used instead of several is a plus, but if you go so far as this I think the next step of blending wouldn't be far off
I have been thinking about my next printer having multiple hotends, but now I think I am going to go this route of a color blending nozzle instead, it's the next le
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This is something I was thinking about a few days back after I had a blockage in my hotend with nylon (I had to give the weed eater line ago), after I finished messing about with the nylon I changed back to yellow PLA, did a print or two and then suddenly got a blockage, after working the hotend to remove the blockage a bit of nylon started to come out, then it started to blend with the yellow PL
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I have been printing for close to a week now, I get great prints with the fan off, with the fan on it seems to distort the print, I think I have the printing speeds set way low, it seems to give enough time for the pla to cool off before the next layer
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Thanks Traumflug, it appears to have just been the max feed rate was way too high, I reduced it right down to 1mm/sec and now things are working just fine, motors are nice and quite, it also solved my other problem of inaccurate z end stop setting
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Hi all, can anyone help me on an a problem I have with the Z axis?
I have an i3 prusa, everything seems to work correctly when the Z axis step rate is at default (M92) somewhere around 500 or 600 steps per unit if I remember. However at this setting a 20mm x 20mm x 20mm stl box gets printed at X20mm Y20mm and Z3mm, basically it becomes a messy blob, I had to set the Z axis to 4035 steps per unit
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Gees! I'm gonna contact the supplier of my printer and give them ten kinds of s**t!
They absolutely suck! They have their company logo silk screened onto the board so I know that they are having them made locally which means they are soldering the FTDI chip on themselves
Thanks for all your help bud.
Before my previous post concerning the FTDI I searched for the fault concerning the LED but foun
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Another question.
I have noticed something different on my board compared to the images on the sanguinololu wiki concerning the FTDI chip.
take a look at the wiki image -
and now take a look at the actual FTDI on my board (attached), I couldn't get a clearer image but notice the two legs I circled in red, they have been bridged with solder, have you seen this before? I have not seen any images
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The board pic is from the wiki, but it's similar to mine, the point is that the LED is exactly in the same place! Don't worry, mine is complete!
It does not matter whether I have only the usb powering the board or the 12v ATX supply, the LED does it's own thing.
But the voltage regulator is only regulating the 12v down to 5v is it not? The USB (5v) power is not channeled through the regulator, or
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Not much time to work on the printer again, just got fiddeling with it today!
Yeah, the LED next to the voltage regulator just like the image below!
I was sure it was just a power LED, but from the start it has been blinking, dimming and eventually turning off, this should not be, should it?
I'll give the Arduino 0023 a go and let you know!
Also I see that there have been issues with the ce
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I hope Im not been dumb here but I cant copy the verbose output, how do I save the text?
OK so burning the bootloader is no quick fix until I get some necessary hardware!><
After trying a couple more uploads of the firmware I sometimes got a different error where Arduino gave the error message that (com14) is been used by another application and could not upload, however there was no othe
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lajos Wrote:
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> You sure you have the correct value for
> MOTHERBOARD (62), and the arduino ide shows
> Sanguino W/ATmega1284p 16mhz on COM{something}?
Yep, that's all correct!
> Anyway, if you find that the firmware is not
> uploading, post the output from the black window
> at the bottom of the arduino ide with verbose
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The error is recorded each time, I just tried the verbose checkbox, it says the upload is done though!
what do you mean by this " If the error keeps happening, can you post the output of upload with verbose enabled?" Do you want me to post the entire verbose
but gees, I found one of the major errors already, do you remember me complaining about the hotend switching on and off? After finally been
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Lajos, thanks for the straight forward instructions, I have tried a couple of times today (before my last post and your reply) with no success to do what you have helped me to just do, the wiki's I have followed just don't explain properly and none have mentioned the sanguino patch link you have provided. Seriously, you should write a wiki on how to load firmware!
But, though I got to this point
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Thanks for your help lajos, I have not been able to work on my printer much, work and life getting in the way.
Current settings are not the problem, I have them set.
x,y and E axis are working fine except for y, it's definitely not the motors or the printer itself thats the problem as the y bed works just fine when I connect it to any of the other axis drivers. No problem with the stepper driver
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Traumflug Wrote:
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> Wrong microstepping settings don't result in
> "erratically" movements. Regarding this part of
> calibration, motors move either the right
> distance, or half or double of it, but always
> smoothly. Starting with current adjustment is
> indeed a good idea, it's the same for all
> electronics using Polo
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lajos Wrote:
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> You _must_ configure your firmware,
> That's where you set up how many
> steps your motors take per unit, your baud rate,
> your hotend thermistor type etc.
The ATMEGA 1284 I was supplied with already has Marlin firmware and apparently was tested (not calibrated to the printer though), but you are saying that I w
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Thanks, that's what i thought.
I have pololu stepper drivers. Would one motor have different settings to another, lets say the z motor on sixteenth and the y motor on eighth, not likely right?
I must say though, not one setting has solved the erratic behaviour of the y motor, however it has briefly worked on each of the settings before reverting to the erratic behaviour or not responding at all
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Hello, I have just completed putting together an i3 Prusa with sanguinololu 1.3a and Marlin firmware. Are there specific settings regarding the microstepping jumper settings? I am having trouble with the x and y motors, but specifically the y motor behaving erratically. Occasionally I get the y bed to move correctly after multiple adjustments to the jumpers but then the x motor gives me trouble.
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