Finally! Everything’s been mounted. Everything (as far as I can tell) is in good working order. There’s no shorts, no funky behavior and best of all, no magic smoke pouring out from any of my components. I had the green light, and started messing with my printer’s firmware and running some test prints – so far, I’m liking what I see.
Month: June 2016
Wrapping up the Build
This is a continuation from the last post, where I talked about building up and installing the heated print bed. For this update, I’ll be going over mounting the printer to the project (pine) board, laying out all of my completed wiring and building a spool holder. This should bring the actual physical build of the printer to a close (I’m currently salivating at the thought – I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!). From there on out, it’s calibration, tuning and tweaking via firmware and software (slicer) settings. Not to say there may not be the odd mechanical or electrical tweak, but I still categorize that under tweaking / tuning. Onward!