My Prusa Mendel Reprap has started to make a strange new sound while printing parts for my Delta robots. I tried turning down the speed but it hasn’t helped. It may be related to heat creep – I run my machines 8 hours a day, most days of the week. Do you know what is causing it, or what to do about it?
3.00mm and 1.75mm ABS filament for 3D printers is now in stock. We use a LOT of it in making kits and figure hey! If we’re bringing it all the way here, it can’t hurt to pass the bulk purchase savings on to you. You’ll find it listed as a new category in the store.
As you may have read, we’re only listing what we have in stock this second. Place an order and it’ll be in the mail next business day. This stuff is selling crazy fast – We ordered in three of each color and there’s barely any left already.
We also take requests. Want a color? Let us know! We have easy access to Natural, White, Grey, Brown, Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple. I just opened the last roll of Purple so I can’t photograph it for the shop.
Both have been delayed because I could not get enough ball joints to fill orders. I’m sorry.
On the plus side, everyone who’s been waiting for a Delta Robot will be getting a free upgrade to the new and better model.
Over the next few days I’ll be publishing a few software updates and updating the store product description.
For those of you just joining us, Delta robots are parallel linkage mechanisms that are used for pick and place operations like food handling. They’ve recently grown in popularity thanks to the Kossel, a 3D printer built onto a Delta robot. They come in two flavors: three-armed and four-armed. They run on most flavors of Arduino like Duemilanove, UNO, Mega, and Leonardo. The open source code (on github) includes demos and understands gcode so you can “talk” to it and drive it with relative ease.
Now that I don’t need the last remaining ball joints for Delta robots I can put them in the HOG drive kits. A bit of laser cutting and these kits will be ready to go.
I have 4 kits ready, packaged, and waiting for you. Kits ship in the morning so you should expect an email with your tracking number next working day by noon, PST. Would you prefer fully assembled motor shields or DIY?
One new feature is that the name of the robot has been moved from the acrylic front of the box (where it was blocking the view) to one of the sides that didn’t have any other features.
Not one but TWO Ford Stewart platforms working in sync to bend sheet metal for prototyping. Very cool!
