Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

Unlike most of you, I don't use an electrically heated print surface.  Some time ago I bought a Rapman 3.1, which used an acrylic 3 ...

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Adriaan has been working hard learning the TFT programming protocols and has his first touch screen menu working on the Sampo controller bo...

After I got the x and y axes operating independently, Bogdan suggested that I measure the steps between the limits switches to see how much...

I was finally able to get time to integrate the full anti-bounce board with the x and y axis limit switches. The two axes are p...

In developing the Darwin-derivative, Rapman-derivative Sampo 3D printer project as a kaizen exercise I utilized the same sort of microswitc...

I managed to get some hours together to do some more work on my son's Prusa Mendel, the z-axis stepper mounts this time. I printed...

I had a major crash of the Rapman 3.0 printer and for several hours I thought I was really knackered. One of the leads to a phase of the e...

After talking with my son recently, I concluded that he needs to start printing a lot faster than I'm going to have Sampo debugged and ...

The MIPS core that PIC32 uses is a very high performance CPU that was used in high end Windows workstations in the early to mid-1990s. It ...

After a delightful chat with Bogdan this morning about the PIC32's MIPS core processor, I was able to get the y-axis test firmware work...

There is not much to say about this.  Once I got two of the links printed and assembled so that I knew everything fit together, I bought ...

I've never been happy with the way that Rapman handles axis and extruder cabling, so I decided to print my own flex cable carrier syst...

It took me 10 hours and fifty minutes to print the first print table bracket and I got a few measurements wrong, but it appears that the c...

When I bought my Sherline lathe, I went for the loaded option.  As I am finding out, it was a very good decision.  I don't think I'...

A few months ago, I had planned on acquiring another BfB Rapman with two print heads this time so that I could explore the use of PLA as a ...

Little did I know when I was upgrading Slice and Dice to do prints of laser-cut Rapman parts that I would soon be confronting the problem o...

I had completed my narrow profile telepresence finger and then set about designing a mount for the gearmotor and potentiometer to drive it....

I discovered that while the mismatch of inner and outer loops can be sorted out on a single slice fairly easily, things get tougher when yo...

In which your narrator rewrites the Slice and Dice routine that calculates print roads on a slice. Having got a working finger design fo...