Friday, August 20, 2010

Starting The 3D Printer

To begin this first post in ages I would like to say that I am building a Wolfstrap (a Repstrap) and have ordered a Sanguino for the motherboard as well as a programmer for it. I have also ordered/received 4 RepRap stepper boards for $2 per board but they had a silkscreen and minor trace issue. I ordered all the parts from Newark and started making the boards only to realize that I didn't have enough 100nf capacitors or enough green LEDs! So I ordered some more capacitors and LEDs and a molex connector for simple stepper motor connection witch turned out to be $18, $5 for shipping! I have also ordered some misc. things such as a power supply and a  ribbon cable for the IDC cable once I assemble and test the electronics I will start to order the mechanics of the repstrap, hopefully I will post more often!

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