The 3D printer build has been completed and after several hours spent dialing in variables in the firmware, tweaking alignment of the pieces, tightening drive belts (and in one case printing two supplemental pieces to keep the z-axis rods aligned) we are getting some pretty good prints. Here are some pictures of the build. Later I’ll post some of the things that we printed.
The first day of building the 3d printer. The x-axis frame.
The printer build continues. The x-axis and z-axis frames are complete.
Nora gets goofy.
The framework is complete with all three axis. Now the electronics are going on.
Nora is skeptical it is ever going to work.
The very first print. It did not go very well. It took another several hours of tinkering before we got solid print.
Another print started. After dialing the parameters in we are getting great results!