That sounds cool. And if anybody else wants to come up with ideas/slogans/designs, I'm sure we could give away a shirt or something for the best one.by sai - General
Adrian Bowyer wrote: > Zach Hoeken wrote: > >> perhaps we should also put in the instructions a link to where you can >> download a tarball of the current svn repository. >> >> >> does that get generated nightly or what? >> > > Nightly, I think (Simon?). Of course, exactly when "nightly" is depends upon > which section of the Global Reby sai - Developers
Just as an experiment, there's a little shop set up. It is hosted free of charge by CafePress: The current design is pretty basic. If there is any reasonable demand, we can switch to a more customised shop that will fit in better with the site and we can have a bit more variety of products then too. The only thing is that costs US$7 per month, so we'd have to sell at least a few items everyby sai - General
On my machine, I'm using these: I think they're brilliant. Not only are they plastic and potentially reprappable, but they are very quick to plug and unplug, they snap in and stay on well and they're keyed so you can't put things in backwards (which rapidly fries things). _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developby sai - Developers
Adrian Bowyer wrote: > Oh dear! I hadn't even realised that Java3D doesn't run on Macs. OK - > I'll put a bit on the web page. Gah! That's no good... I could have sworn it supported Macs too. I thought I checked that before using it. _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developers@reby sai - Developers
Would you be interested in RepRap merchandise such as T-shirts, caps, coffee mugs, mouse pads, etc.? We wouldn't do this to make money (although there may be a small margin), this would mainly be so we could wear a little piece of a cool project, and spread the word. I'm just curious to gauge opinion. Please use the poll above to let us know...by sai - General
Adrian Bowyer wrote: > Now that is nice, and well worth having I think, for one over-riding > reason: it's the first board you make, so newbies get an SS board to do > first, then graduate to DS for the rest. Can we fatten up (a lot) the > +12v tracks to the distribution connectors? > Ooops. I had forgotten to label those connectors 12V, so they were connected to vcc. Fixby sai - Developers
Adrian Bowyer wrote: > Perhaps not. Presumably if you increase the jumper count you quickly > get to the point where there are no tracks running between pins, and > suddenly they can be fat again. > If you go to about 20-30 jumpers, it alleviates the problem sufficiently to go to a single layer PCB with fat tracks. So its entirely doable, but I just think when you get to thatby sai - Developers
Oh, regarding the pulley system, yes I think that's a great idea too. Just about all head based printers use that approach and it works pretty well for them. It is certainly very fast for positioning compared to threaded rod. As I understand it, the new Darwin is doing just that for one of the axes. Although that might change before the final version. With common 1.8 degree/step motors, to gby sai - General
The rack and pinion approach you're suggesting has reared its head multiple times during the development of the system. It is really appealing just because it can be more easily fabricated by the machine itself, which is obviously one of the ultimate goals of the system. They are also very conceptually simple and seem like they would be easy to make. One of the reasons for not using this approby sai - General
Sorry, I didn't mean AoI I meant inkscape. Don't know how I mixed up the names. Inkscape just directly manipulates the .svg files.by sai - General
Yes, we can compile for any of the PIC range. We have already talked about possibly switching to the 16F648. The PIC16 (ie PIC18*) series compiler is also more complete and powerful than the PIC14 Iie PIC16*) series.by sai - General
Yes, they're all available in subversion.by sai - General
I am assuming from this that it is not worth proceeding with the single sided universal board because the tracks are two narrow (?) Zach Hoeken wrote: > other than that, the boards themselves are pretty straightforward. i > think that combined with more pictures and good instructions should be > easy for your average person to construct. > _______________________________________by sai - Developers
It was all done in Art of Illusion. I think it would be tough to use it for real PCB work, unless it was very simple stuff.by sai - General
Yes, we noticed Forrest's peculiar email problems too. It's something to do with the weird stuff Yahoo email is doing. It's probably fixable by changing formatting options on Yahoo, but I doubt Forrest will want to do that, so we'll have to find a solution on this end -- sometime. The developer's list is mirrored to the developer's forum here, so in general you can read everything here (barrinby sai - General
These are stunning: Not actually having seen such a machine, I wonder what the colouring process is. I'm especially impressed with the ball bearing assembly that was supposedly made as a single build, and it works. That's a bit of a neat trick.by sai - General
Sorry, which pictures are you referring to? A lot of the parts are developed in AoI. The parts are still being finalised, but stay tuned.by sai - General
Sebastien Bailard wrote: > It's probably just phorum's mechanism to control email attachments. > > I believe Simon may have set up developers@reprap.org so that core-cabal > developers like you and I can natter away freely while non-cabal subscribers > can only listen, and cannotby sai - Developers
Adrian Bowyer wrote: > I suppose that, if we just all go through our old sent-mail folders and > forward everything that was to reprap@bath.ac.uk to the new forum > making sure to keep the subject field as it was, it'll just make an > unholy mess? Or might it sort it all out? > I can directly gatewby sai - Developers
Sebastien Bailard wrote: > The developers mailing list is being archived at: > > And we can post to the list via that forum. > Yes, though it seems to work a bit more cleanly if everybody just uses the mailing list. The integration isn't perfect it seems It would be great if everybody could sign up on the forums with the same email address, so that the names show up and theby sai - Developers
A PC power supply is one of the cheapest power supplies you can get that has a reasonable power output, so it's a good way to go. A 12V lab supply is much more expensive, for example. Although a car battery will work just fine too. The heater element consumes 2 to 3A, and all the motors together use at least a few more, depending on the model you choose, the top speed you want to run at and thby sai - General
Yes, we are also interested in making a kitset available and we have some people that can do that for us. There is a little more fine tuning and testing required before we can commit to a larger scale run of kitsets. It would be horrible to get them made up and then find we need to make some changes. Stay tuned though, they will be coming.by sai - General
Sounds like you accidentally fried it Was the PIC still functioning? If so, you may have driven an I/O line too hard. Or perhaps you set a port as an output temporarily when it was supposed to be an input, resulting in friage. You can fry electronics quite easily by getting the order of your port settings wrong (even simple things like the location of your TRIS instructions could do it). Thby sai - General
I get mine premixed as a solution, and it's just stored in a plastic container with a screw-on cap. I don't think it is corrosive to most plastics. It also keeps for a long time in solution.by sai - General
Have you tried using two separate printouts, rather than a folded one? Etch only one side, and then use drill holes to align the second side.by sai - General
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?" The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field." "You must be an engineer," says the balloonist. "I am," replies the man. "How did you know?" "Well," says the balby sai - General