Sunday, February 15, 2015

After weeks of hacking and troubleshooting, i was able to partially tune my printer.

I found that two oof the digital endstops were defective causing issues it being able to calculate home.

I also had to hack several more variables in the configuration.h file.

I was getting disgusted a bit with my build and gave in and purchased the FOLGERS KOSSEL PRINTER on Febuary 10 2015.

We will see how long it takes fornthem to deliver and i will document its building as well.

Be my build seems to be coming along fine and it am able to get printer to home and draw with and ink pen on a sheet of paper.

Here is a video of what it can do so.


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Mounted LCD Panel power switch and arduino / ramps board

I mounted LCD Panel power switch and arduino / ramps board on front panel.

IT WORKS!!!





ATX Power Supply mounted in bottom back of printer.

Installed atx pc power supply in back of printer. Cut out back panel to fit PSU.


Repurchase of Sunkee 100x Dupont Jumper Wire Cable Female Pin Connector 2.54mm

I purchased Sunkee 100x Dupont Jumper Wire Cable Female Pin Connector 2.54mm on Amazon, alon with several other items - FULFILLED BY AMAZON - all of the items were incorrect and the female pin connectors were NOT EVEN IN THE BOX.

So I had to purchase from Ebay - 

Sold by dfcash55

Sunkee 100x Dupont Jumper Wire Cable Female Pin Connector 2.54mm


In transit - from minnesota. eta Estimated delivery Monday, Feb 9, 2015

incorrect 
I have to have these to conectruct my cables from endstop and motors. I will be using cat5 plenum for this. Double up on the pairs for the motors.

Sunkee 100x Dupont Jumper Wire Cable Female Pin Connector 2.54mm

Monday, February 2, 2015

Arduino ramps 1.4 mounted to the atx PSU

I have mounted my arduino and ramps 1.4 board on top of my atx psu. I did this earlier to save room

I dont think I am going to have a problem with room anymore with the MDF Board structure!!


Ok so with all of the arms built and mounted to plywood it lookED like this....



I had extreme difficulty getting the holes in the plywood to match the rest of the printer.
The plywood didnt allow accurate hole drilling and it chipped badly.

I found several people on the internet whom had used MDF board. I was more expensive and I didn't want to goto the expense...I AM GLAD I DID!!!

MDF is AWESOME!!! this is my design the wood frame part!!



There is ample room underneath the print bed for all my electronics and I also built a front part to install my lcd control panel in!!



I AM STILL WAITING FOR MY -

Sunkee 100x Dupont Jumper Wire Cable Female Pin Connector 2.54mm 

from ebay to create my 4 position connections from motors to control board and 2 pin connections to the endstops.;

Then will begin the wiring phase.;