Monthly Archives: July 2010

New extruder

After a failure yesterday I managed to print a new printuder II to replace my old printuder (below). I think it’s much better than the regular plastruder and has not failed after I installed the MK5 worm gear.

Whatte…

I left my cupcake alone to print and when I come back, this is waiting for me… Apparently Z stage raised itself from the nuts and started climbing… Update: Seems that the filament got stuck to the cardboard box above and extruder started climbing when it couldn’t get more filament.

FirmCake firmware released

In my opinion the current G3Firmware is quite a mess. I hacked an LCD support to it some time ago and found the code to be quite hard to follow and not very organized. Also I’ve been thinking of new motherboard based on Arduino Mega and I needed firmware for that so last week I [...]

Uutiskirje 11 / Newsletter 11

Heippa, Arduino Megoja ja värillisiä Duemilanoveja on tullut lisää. Duemilanove on kaikista Arduinon mikrokontrollerikorteista suosituin ja ehdottoman aloittelijaystävällinen kortti, joka taipuu myös ammattimaiseen protoiluun. Ehkä projektiisi sopisi jokin tietty väri tai haluaisit antaa lahjaksi jotain aivan erityistä. Värillisistä Arduinon Duemilanoveista voit valita oman värisi. Useat värit ovat olleet loppu, mutta nyt kaikkia on taas saatavilla. [...]