I got a subscriber who purchased some items from my Amazon Wish List. It’s my first purchase and very exciting! They purchased a few electronic items for me, and a few days later they showed up in the mail.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyWEB919kK4 Number three of my postbag opening series from AliExpress ( http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/u33jIyR ). I get a lot of stuff from China - AliExpress, Banggood etc and wanted to video the "un-boxing" of...
First in a series of postbag opening videos from AliExpress. I get a lot of stuff from China and wanted to video the “un-boxing” of the of the postbags and a little intro to some projects I may or may not be working on in the future.
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For this printer I will be using the standard and simple setup of an Arduino Mega and a RAMPS 1.4 board. The Arduino Mega is the brains of the printer and will process all the g-code instructions from the .gcode files from either an SD card or over USB and tell the printer how to move, heat up, extrude filament etc by signalling all the motors, heaters and sensors on the printer which are connected via the RAMPS board, which in turn is connected to the Arduino Mega via the GPIO pins.
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Now that all the axis are complete, we can install the endstop/limit switches. These are simply a switch which is triggered mechanically by one of the printers moving parts hitting it, be it the hotend, print bed etc.
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Following on from the x-axis build – I skimmed over the last part, just “installing with the z-axis rods and threaded M5 screw”. This post helps to expand on this part, installing...
Over the weekend (18/19th June 2016) while browsing through AliExpress for my usual random electrical stuff which will inevitably get put in a draw for “future use” I came across two new listings...
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