Comments on: Make a Reprap Robot Part 1: The Electronics – Weekend Project Podcast

By: Electronics for sale ads

Electronics for sale ads — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:18:00 +0000

Nice Projec.good job.

By: Grudge

Grudge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

wow, this looks like a great project. Busy downloading the video file. Any idea on what the costs would be ?

By: BruceWattendorf

BruceWattendorf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have been with the project for over a year now and it is from 400.00 to 500.00 us $ for everything. but that is using our original bot. http://www.reprap.org I think it might be cheaper using the McWire bot. I do know it will be easier to build the McWire bot. the goal is to be able to make a McWire bot and then make the parts to build the Darwin bot if somebody wanted. The original goal was to be able to build a machine that was able to make its own parts. We have the chicken and the egg problem and that you need a machine to be bale to make parts for a 2nd machine… So then Zach, and Bre, has worked on making a bot from ordinary parts and few 3d printed parts so then we can get more to be able to build machines..

By: TheThompsonFive

TheThompsonFive — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Are you going to do the entire project in back to back podcasts, or will you give us a chance to catch up?

By: bre3

bre3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m planning on doing a podcast on the physical building of the robot hardware in the next week or two and then do the podcast about how to make the software work when the software is done!!!

By: michaeljanderson

michaeljanderson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is all of this (all 3 axis of the cnc machine, control of the heating element, and the extruder screw) controlled from a single Arduino?

By: bre3

bre3 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s actually 2 arduinos. It almost fits on one, but we needed more tx/rx action so it expanded to two.