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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...