Mendel is Alive!
Jan 13th, 2010 by fynflood
Mechanically, it’s 99% finished. I need to put the optostops on, and finish the wiring. Depending on print quality, I may or may not buy some drive pulleys for all the axis. The printed ones are moving them about, but I think there is some slipping going on.
The extruder gear will be here tomorrow, so it’s likely it will actually print something tomorrow. I’m ordering some ribbon cable this week as well, so I can wire it up all pretty. In the meantime, I’ll be happy with a working printer that has sloppy wiring.
Here’s a short clip of it printing pretending to print one of the Y axis parts:
Still a lot to do before it’s done by definition, but not long until I have it printing itself a sibling.
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