We will be bringing our RepRaps on the Saturday of this year’s OggCamp, joining in with the Open Source love. Never been to one before but heard good things so looking forward to it!
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Upgrading Mendel to RAMPS and Heated Bed
Having assembled the RAMPS kit and received a new heated bed to replace the broken one, it was for Mendel’s first major overhaul – replacing Techzone Gen3 electronics, and adding a heated bed. Continue reading Upgrading Mendel to RAMPS and Heated Bed
GRRF RAMPS 1.2 Electronics Build
Our RAMPS 1.2 Electronics kit arrived from German RepRap Foundation the other day so I got cracking! Unfortunately I has having one of those days and my German and Google Translate weren’t too great, resulting in several LEDs with the wrong orientation and one in completely the wrong place! Thankfully everything still works (except the LEDs). Continue reading GRRF RAMPS 1.2 Electronics Build
Come See Us at Brighton Mini Maker Faire
Saturday 3rd September 2011, 10am-5pm
Brighton Dome foyer and bar
Bowden Extruder Troubles
Our Huxley hot end kept popping out from the clamp, which was warping under the heat, and ramming into the print bed gouging out designs in the plywood.
Several iterations of clamp design later and we’ve settled on a beefed up version that seems to cope with the force of the extruder (even when I had set the Z STEPS_PER_MM to 20% of what it should have been). Continue reading Bowden Extruder Troubles
