Prometheus Fusion Perfection » Gcode

MakerBot

Mark Suppes — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:13:38 +0000

The Makerbot is up and running. It was fun to put together.

I was able to do a few test prints:

Reprap Gcode Gotchas

Mark Suppes — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:51:03 +0000

For some reason, for my reprap to work I had to plug my min opto end stop in to the max port on the stepper motor controller. So for other reprap’ers out there whose symptoms include: normal response to Gcodes, except for motion towards the min opto-endstop, for one or more axes, try inserting the min opto into the max opto port on the stepper controller. Makes no sense, but bam there it is.

I also had to invert my opto-endstops by setting this in _init.pde:

#define SENSORS_INVERTING 1

I spent days struggling with these idiosyncrasies, hopefully this post will save someone else the same trouble.

Also remember to set the baud-rate to 19,200

Reprap Frustrations

Mark Suppes — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:47:58 +0000

I’m having a tough time getting the Gcode firmware to work on either the Arduino or the Sanguino. The PDE files compile and upload properly, but when I issue a Gcode command through the serial connection, such as “G1 X10″: it does not work, and I get this crazy response:

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