Oh, one more thing to add. My printer has a LCD display. When I hit X, Y, and Z control buttons in Pronterface, I can see the value of X, Y, and Z location/coordinate change accordingly. For example, if I hit +1 for Y in Pronterface, I can see the Y value goes up by 1 on the LCD, and so on. However, as I have stated in the original post, for X the motor actual moves corresponding to those conby Yamster - Reprappers
Hello all, I finally finished building my Prusa i3 8" today, connected all wires, and uploaded firmware. I am at the step to test out the motors and end stops using Pronterface... and I am having some problems. The first thing I tried (after connecting my computer to the printer via USB ) was to hit the Y home button in Pronterface. I believe the heated bed should move forward until hitting tby Yamster - Reprappers
Thank you guys for your replies. Yes, I was able to find the parts and crimping tool from Newark, and have ordered them yesterday. I guess I was looking for these parts at a wrong place (Amazon). I was a little overwhelmed by the number of choices and variety of (similar) parts offered by Newark, but I was able to narrow down my search quickly (now that I know what these are called - thanksby Yamster - Controllers
Hello, I am in process of building my first 3D printer, and I'm getting close to the completion. Yes! Today, after connecting all the motors and other sensors to RAMPS... man, I realized that there are so many dangling cables and wires... and it looks very messy. I understand some of them has to be kept loose, e.g. wires for extruder and X motor since they have to move up/down and left/righby Yamster - Controllers
appdev007, Thank you for your reply. Yes... I actually read more about the glass and heated bed thingy, and to my surprise I realized the challenge is to make the shape stick to the plate, not to take it off the plate. Well, the reason I assumed we are trying to prevent the shape from sticking to the plate was... well, simply because the glass is so slick. I wonder why glass is the most comby Yamster - Reprappers
Well, it didn't take me too long to find the RAMP circuit diagram, and I can see those two z motor pins are connected in parallel. In other words, I can plug the shared connector for both z motors to one of the pins. I wish I have searched it before posting my question. Sorry about that. Thank you.by Yamster - Reprappers
Hello all, I'm in process of building Prusa Mendel i3. There are two z motors, and the RAMPS board I got in my kit has two sets of pins for z motors. Does anyone know if these pins are actually connected to each other? The reason I am asking this is that my z motors came with a shared connector. If these pins are connected to each other, I can just plug this one shared connector to one of tby Yamster - Reprappers
Hello, This probably is a dumb question... I have purchased a kit for Mendel Prusa i3. I'm almost done with the build - what's left is the electronics and heated plate, and extruder (some parts were missing in the kit so I am waiting for the parts). The kit does not include a glass pane, but the build instruction mentions that I need to get one, which I did. However, I can't find any furtherby Yamster - Reprappers
amramsey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can print smaller features with the smaller > nozzle, but it requires your printer to be better > tuned. It also takes longer to print things with > the smaller nozzle. > > Basically the best thing is to have both and use > whichever is best for any particular print. Actually that answers my seconby Yamster - Reprappers
Hello, I see there are different sizes for nozzles, like .35mm and .50mm. What is the difference? Well, I know they are different in size, but what are the implications of this size difference? I first thought the smaller nozzle would be better because it would be more accurate (or at least smoother surface in print out), but it seems like there's no price difference between two. So, I guessby Yamster - Reprappers
> Yes I am a guy. What makes you think we are not > taking orders? Took two today and they will ship > in the morning. Should be able to ship next day > from cleared payment from now on. Wow, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to spread a false rumor here, I just couldn't see a big glowing button saying "Buy Now" in your blog so I conveniently jumped into the conclusion. Now I read the instby Yamster - Reprappers
Thank you! So I was wrong about the loop after all. No surprise. LOLby Yamster - Reprappers
Hello all, I have a printout of BOM for Mendel90 (I tried to compile the SCAD files, but being new with OpenSCAD I had no idea what I was doing, so at the end I just downloaded the bom.txt file from the web site) and I am in a process of trying to buy other parts individually... I am currently stuck with the belts: 1 Belt T5 x 6mm x 655mm 1 Belt T5 x 6mm x 870mm The closest thing I can fiby Yamster - Reprappers
Hello all, I'm very new with 3D printing and this is my first posting - I just joined the forum today. After a few days of reading/surfing and watching countless YouTube videos with much admiration, I have decided to give it a shot at building my own RepRaps. From what I have read so far, Mendel90 seems like the right version of RepRap to build. By the way, please feel free to chip in - any kby Yamster - Reprappers