January 2008
2 posts
RepRap-Host
I finally got the reprap host to actually run on my system! I still don’t know which version of Java it’s using since I have eight installed. Finally, in desperation I copied j3d-org-java3d-all.jar to all the lib\ext folders I could find. Crude but effective! Now I need to figure out what kind of information it sends to the firmware. All I know now is it’s a 16 byte packet with...
November 2007
4 posts
This was in response to Zach Hoeken on the RepRap forum. http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?13,5128 To make the gui in Processing, I used someone elses library (SpringGUI by Philipp Seifried) which then of course I had to learn how he did what. Kind of tedious, after using an ide that did all that for you, but just a lot of cut and paste mostly. In processing (Slice_Dice_xml_reader), the file...
It Works!
I’ve spent the last few weeks with my new obsession. Not the repstrap the software and firmware to download 3D solids to the Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/ from Processing http://processing.org/. My original thought was to send the xyz data from the xml file that Slice and Dice produced. There were too many communication problems. Then I did some research into g-code that cnc machines use and...
October 2007
5 posts
First Drawings
The two drawings on the notebook paper were the first and second attempts at drawing a rectangle with diagonals. I think it was a little off on the first one at the top. The one below is better. The lines don’t quite match up but the carpenter’s pencil is just held on with some wire bread ties! I was very excited by the second one!
Success!
Any success is good, even small ones. Been busy on other projects but finally got the xyz axes working together. Little late posting, but better late than never.
September 2007
2 posts
Day One.
I’ve been meaning to blog my efforts to make a reprap machine. So my son forced me to join Tumblr! Reprap stands for Rapid Replicator. It can make plastic parts by laying down successive layers of plastic by moving forward/back, right/left, up/down while squeezing a melted plastic through a nozzle. Check out: http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwin I was all excited when I found...