On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 14:33 -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
a bit of a Makerbot champion
The *idea* behind the Thing-O-Matic is great, but the *implementation*,
well, not so much. Plus, all the things on the their wishlist seem to be
done deals with EMC2, but I digress.
ship it, then sell them an
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com wrote:
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 14:33 -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
a bit of a Makerbot champion
The *idea* behind the Thing-O-Matic is great, but the *implementation*,
well, not so much. Plus, all the things on the their wishlist
Hello, folks. Can anybody comment on using hall effect switches on a 3 axis
mill for limit / home switches? Seems like they would have some possible
advantages over physical contact switches.
Thanks.
-Pete
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On 13 June 2011 21:47, Peter Loron pet...@standingwave.org wrote:
Hello, folks. Can anybody comment on using hall effect switches on a 3 axis
mill for limit / home switches? Seems like they would have some possible
advantages over physical contact switches.
I think that you would have
Sorry, should have qualified myself further...this would be used on a router
mill that will only be doing wood, plastic, and a bit aluminum work. No steel.
-Pete
On Jun 13, 2011, at 1:53 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 13 June 2011 21:47, Peter Loron pet...@standingwave.org wrote:
Hello, folks. Can
I use Allegro A3213's on all my machines. Have had very good results, but
you'll definitely want to keep an eye on repeatability. If you find you
have issues you might be able to compensate by using linear halls and a good
AD converter, but I haven't had the need to go down that path yet.
Andy
Peter,
the people on the Mechmate forum are using HAL's a lot,
the advantage would be that if you use a HAL sensor you can detect
when the gantry is lifted from your rails during operation
(yes this happens on a MM) and thus you can shutdown automatically
your machine when you see this
On Jun 12, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com wrote:
That said, if you want to build one, I _strongly_ recommend you start with a
standard Prusa Mendel (http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa) and only start
experimenting after you have got that up and running. The current design has
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Colin K cwk@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 12, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com wrote:
That said, if you want to build one, I _strongly_ recommend you start
with a
standard Prusa Mendel (http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa) and only start
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 14:33 -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com wrote:
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 23:54 -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
that is a limitation of the Makerbot firmware.
As nearly as I can tell, ReplicatorG has become
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