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Printing issues ...
Smoothieware presents the on-board SD card as a USB drive over the printer's USB cable. You can save the sliced file from Cura or your slicer du jour directly to the printer's SD card, open Pronterface (or any other host program), and type "@play /sd/sliced-file.gcode" to kick off the print. (Pronterface requires the "@" sign to run Smoothie commands, other host programs do not.)
Given the eas
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Delta Machines
Anchoring the vertical extrusion at the top of the Kossel/CP seems to be the Achille's heel of both designs. Anything that you can do to shore up that joint is most certainly NOT a waste of material, IMHO.
Personally, I would use even more material and extend bracing fillets from your addition along both sides of the extrusion and put two more screws into it from the sides. I don't know if box
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Delta Machines
Here's yet another Smoothie-compatible board that someone posted in the Deltabot forum:
http://hackaday.io/project/833-3dpcb-smoothieboard-compatible-driver-pcb
Looks like it may be a dead project judging by the way the author has not updated the files since last April, but it is another option (and yes the board files are there).....
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Controllers
Brad Hopper's HotBot was designed to be easily enclosed:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/deltabot/xsK_v-7lE9I%5B151-175-false%5D
https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/2rzjwc/misumi_usa_contest/
The gotcha is that it is based on Misumi 60-degree extrusions. There are Misumi sales offices all over the world, but the offices in some regions (Europe for one) are strict
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Delta Machines
This "new" Smoothieware-compatible board popped up in the Google Deltabot group over the weekend:
http://itcorp24.cart.fc2.com/ca8/48/p-r8-s/
Momoinololu M3
I know that cxandy knows about it, and am hoping that he is writing a summary of its features to go with the list at the top of this thread.....
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QuoteZavashierJust the Ramps/Marlin users a ways more numerous. Aren't they ?
At some point about 500 years ago, I'm sure that sword soldiers out-numbered musket soldiers. When the Spanish and other explorers arrived in the western hemisphere, there were orders of magnitude more arrows than guns. Arguing that the 8-bit RAMPS is better than a 32-bit platform is like bringing a sword or arrows t
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Reprappers
"A wise man knows that confidentiality equals profit." - The Ferengi 30th Rule of Acquisition
"Even if it's free, you can always buy it cheaper." - The Ferengi 11th Rule of Acquisition
"Sometimes what you get free cost entirely too much." - The Ferengi 218th Rule of Acquisition
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Quotedc42
If you go over to the Ormerod forum and look at some of the posts about ABS printing, you will find several people reporting that even with an insulating blanket on top, it takes too long to get the bed to ABS temperature, and the temperature can't be maintained when the blanket is removed to start printing. The option of increasing voltage has been very important to those people. I did
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Developers
Quotedc42
I am aware that some people use FSRs under the bed supports, but I was under the impression that this was not so easy when a heated bed is used. I presume this is because of the extra weight of a heated bed and/or temperature sensitivity of the FSRs.
JohnSL developed a standalone FSR board with three analog FSR inputs and a simple digital output. His board has signal averaging on eac
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Delta Machines
MTW is another E3D reseller in the USA. I bought two V5's from them.....
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General
QuoteTraumflug
QuotevreihenI know zilch about OSH requirements.
600+ posts in this forum and then this? You're kidding, aren't you? Think of what you'd need to make an identical copy or a slightly modified copy. That's what's required.
No, I'm not kidding. I have no interest for going into the board design/manufacturing business, and do not know anything about the hardware licensing side of op
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Controllers
M119 is your friend. Once you confirm that the endstop is inverted, there's a setting in every firmware to invert the signal.....
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Delta Machines
QuoteOhmarinus
I guess you just have to believe e-sellers by their word these days
It stopped being the coolest Delta printer about $1,000 ago.....
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Delta Machines
...except that the Cherry Pi doesn't use linear smooth rods. That design constraint would leave either the Rostock or 3DR (2012 designs) as the OP's only choices. Ironically, there was someone on the Google Deltabot group yesterday complaining that the 3DR had too much frame flex for his liking.
Delta designs moved on from using rods for linear motion to either rails/tracks (Kossel) and now w
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Quotecxandy
AZSMZ Mini
AZSMZ
If you contact them, please also ask them to publish their sources. Just had to tag it as NotOpenSource.
What exactly do you need? (I know zilch about OSH requirements.) The Eagle files are available in github:
https://github.com/Rose-Fish/AZSMZ-mini
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/deltabot/5OHu1uIhSy4/paOrmZtALHAJ
Arthur Wolf and the Smoothie fo
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I just picked up a Mean Well SP-600-24 (24 volts, 600 watts) last week. Got tired of waiting 40 minutes while my heated bed struggled to reach 110C. The fan is louder than a PC-based supply, but the thing isn't breaking a sweat and gets the 300mm diameter Onyx up to 110C in 6 minutes. Wish that I upgraded sooner!!!!!
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Developers
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?13,428764
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Reprappers
QuotejmfI'm located in NE Ohio.
That's the USA, for those who are on the other side of the pond and don't know our states.....
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Delta Machines
QuotejmfI'm using a temp gun on the hot end and it's not even close to what I'm thinking it should be, are temp guns an accurate way of reading the hot end temps?
If you are referring to one of the non-contact IR guns with the laser pointer, the answer is no. They measure the temperature average over a large area, even up close. Mine also wouldn't even get close to the thermistor reading.....
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Delta Machines
Thank you for the summary! I've been meaning to write one myself.....
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cxandy's post here today summarizing Smoothieware boards has this one listed...from POLAND!!!
http://3d-printers.pl/product/sunbeam
I have no experience with it, but no currency conversion is necessary in your case.....
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An 8-bit Arduino is really under-powered for running a Delta printer. Therefore, I recommend a 32-bit processor, and dumping the 8-bit Arduino ecosystem.
Smoothieware is popular among serious Delta printer people. In North America, the Axteeg X5 Mini is priced good and runs Smoothieware. In Europe, you can probably get Smoothieboard hardware for a good price, or maybe order the new AZSMZ from
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I think that it's just you. Everyone else's printers here went together without a hitch, and mine didn't even need calibration!
Seriously though, we all get frustrated at times, and most of us probably have a pile of printer parts that didn't work out for one reason or another. Take a step back, take a break, and look at every problem with a fresh perspective as they pop up.....
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Delta Machines
Smoothie and Azteeg X5 Mini for me. Had a Megatronics 2.0 with Repetier, which are OK but make me appreciate Smoothieware/Azteeg even more.....
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Delta Machines
SainSmart sells an adapter board that plugs on top of their Megatronics 2.0 board and has two ribbon cable connectors for the GLCD.....
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Quotetmorris9
First problem you have is too much heat on the bed, it's know known that 85-90c is more than hot enough and higher can effect the print.
He is printing ABS, and AFAIK 110C is the popular bed temperature without a heated chamber.....
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Reprappers
http://www.amazon.com/Wolfcraft-4525404-Attachment-4-Inch-8-Inch/dp/B000JCIMEA/ref=pd_sim_hi_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=135HJ71VDCKQS7Z4WWZ5
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General
I will send my invoice/bill.....
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Developers
M119 to check your endstops. I bet that the firmware thinks that they are triggered, hence only moving in one direction.....
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If you put the sand into a styrofoam bucket and leave it on top of the printer/enclosure, it will dump itself onto the fire in he presence of flames hot enough to melt the styrofoam. We used to have styrofoam suspended ceiling tiles at work with the fire sprinklers above them, and it was allowed by fire code because the tiles would melt and drop out in the event of a fire before it got hot enoug
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Safety & Best Practices