i3V 12" shipping monday :-)

So my as the title says my i3v is tomorrow/monday. I am trying to decide what to print first outside of a fan shroud and test pieces.

I am thinking i might go ahead and order some auto bed leveling parts, and print that bracket pretty early on.

i think i am going to design new brackets for the extra large display that comes with the 12" as well. the one that they send is for the smaller screen and it seems like it is somewhat fragile for the screen size and also doesnt line up with the SD card slot very well.

any other suggestions?

outside of things for me and my projects, i have an almost 2 year old, i've been looking but haven't been super successful in finding things to make that he could play with and get him interested in watching it, an enclosure is obviously in my future as well :-) I have an idea for fume/temp control box just have to have time to model it.

I have been going through the mods section, i will probably pick a few from there as well.

i really suck at titles on threads :-P

Welcome to the MakerFarm family, and enjoy your build.

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Originally Posted by printbus

Welcome to the MakerFarm family, and enjoy your build.

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Printbus nailed it. Enjoy your new tool. I might have said toy, except that that it is really a tool. I've printed everything from simple stuff like replacement IKEA pegs, PCB stand-offs, to cookie cutters and tweezers, a desk sized robot arm and, of course, improvements for my printer. I still love my mill, but ultra-rapid prototyping of additive manufacturing definitely has some advantages. I just wish I could print a PCB with my MakerFarm.

Have you gotten yours yet? It looks like mine is going to be delivered sometime this evening.

I also ordered a Prusa 12" i3v kit, back on the 2nd so it'll be a few more days before I see it on my doorstep, but looking forward to my second printer...and quite a big step up from my [now heavily-Borgified] Printrbot Simple. Bring it, Santa! :D

mine is set to be delivered by Friday, i'm hoping it shows up thursday because i will be at work friday :-P

I haven't received an email back from Makerfarm yet about mine being shipped, I'm still in the 10-day lead-time period. Oh well, gotta play the waiting game...

mine didnt ship until the 10 day mark on the nose, so sit back and relax

It should be ten days for me tommow.

sniffle, in addition to the prints you mentioned,definitely print a backup set of extruder parts as some of your first prints! If something goes wrong it's good to have a backup.

Welcome to the forums! :D

Oh thats definitely planned :-) have a roll of green abs coming with it and got a roll of orange pla from makergeeks along with a mystery roll which looks to be colored high temp pla.

I may post a pic of the roll later as it stands im up past midnight soldering because its the only time im able to without a 2 year old climbing on me :-)

Oh im scheduled for delivery friday im hoping i get lucky with a day earlier delivery.

good luck on that extra day this is the time of year where that tends to not happen
Mine has not shipped yet the 11th says Colin (ordered thanksgiving day ??)
but I'm not in a rush It's MY first printer but far from the first one i have built.
(Just built my 53rd today lol)

i plan on doing a lot of the thing Printbus has done sealing and sanding
but the guy next door owns a auto body shop so after i do the filling and sanding
he is going to paint it black and give it 5 or 6 coats of clear and im going to wet sand and buff tell it looks like glass
and he is going to do some burnt orange pin striping on it for the maker farm logo and my old hacker handle "DeadlyData"
is going just below the logo.

i might electropolish the the Open V rails at work.
what do you guys think ?
things i have in place
leds to install flush in to the frame, RPi B+ with octopi all up to date modded with
3 cameras one of witch will be mounted with a macro lens facing down next to the hotend
one that builds timelaps (RPi Cam), and a cheep web cam that will do live octopi video
I'm using a micro sd to full sd adapter but the added speed is worth the space
ultra fast micros top out at 50mbps write full size top out at 250mbps write and it really shows when booting a pi
64GB 120MB's write (tested 134.2MB/s 4kb random 5 tests averaged)
working on ultra beefy hotbed switch.
setting up to run it at 18v to start 24v at some point

TechMasterJoe - it sounds like you'll be taking a MakerFarm printer to an entirely new level. Just to make sure you've seen the fine-print in my build thread, I'd suggest you don't glue up the X-carriage and possibly the Y-motor mount. Watch the paint build up on non-glued joints - I think there have been people that have had to sand down some prepainting they did in order to get things to fit. 53 printers. You're the man!

TechMasterJoe and Printbus,

Colin should create a Makerfarm Build Hall of Fame photo portion on his website for your builds! And a hall of shame for mine! haha

Got upgraded to early delivery for tomorrow :-D

Oh right that filament... Sec ill grab a pic now that i have a working phone again...

The labeling madd it hard to figure out what i actually got... My best guess is a beta filament that is a colored high temp pla.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...210_212147.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...210_212156.jpg

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looks a lot like it's frys brand the stickers look like it but we have a roll we got at the school from mater hackers that has them labels as well. any chance you can give me the spool dia and width they can be good clues. ?

my late night Rambling read if you dare lol
all the spools i have are 1kg my list is simple 2kg or 2 spools of every abs and pla "Prototype supply"
makes i have had extremely good prints at school with the 3mm i got so i just ordered it all at a discount direct from eSun the company that makes it for prototype
my bot is all setup for 1.75mm so we will see

I might pass that idea on to Collin he might really like that. It's good for sales..
we might as well make a thread on the forums about it "like hey post 360 deg photos of your MakerFarm Printer"
and get it pined

as for paint build up it will not be a problem:p
on hand i have 2 3axis cnc's a water jet and a 40Kw laser cutter
i plan on making dxf files of all the frame parts changing things around to better fit a metal build, and water jetting a 2nd makerfarm i3v out of 3/8" 7075-T651 alu

I also just started building a Mega inclosed 3d printer with dual water cooled head, it eats 4 spools of 3mm on 1 head and 2 with the other
nozzle is 1.5mm main 0.8 slave for detail still working on post script for slic3r printer is a full xyz gantry with print space of 4ftX9ftX5ft
i want a faster 3dprinted car not a golf cart + plus i can 3d print Speaker Boxes for my buddies audio shop just an idea

and before anyone asks i will NOT give out any cad files i make based on the 12" i3v out of respect for Collin's hard work..
if you want take it up with him.

We should really leave this thread to sniffle, but Colin is likely at best in a gray area regarding the design files. It has been brought up before that modifications to reprap designs are required to be made available for others to use as they see fit. Marketing the printers as a Prusa variation formalizes the reprap legacy. I don't know the ins and outs of the licensing myself, but here's some text for reference from http://creativecommons.org/tag/reprap in regards to the reprap project - "This means that anyone can copy and improve the project as long as they share alike their modifications, just as one must with GPL’ed free and open source software".

Yeah i think this should be another thread but i also dont mind its something to chat about while i wait on ups to deliver my printer parts...

Technically colin should provide the files for the printer if asked... But they also arent hard to reproduce. All it takes is a set of calipers and time...

I plan on reproducing some of the parts eventually and custom making some as well since i got the 12" version it includes the larger screen and colins mount solution is to use the smaller screen mounts which interfere with the usb port. Im going to make a propper mount for it and make it available. Because... Well... Why not :-P

Open source is open for a reason if you can make money off it great but the whole concept behind it is to make it available to anyone that wants it...

Im hoping to eventually brush up on my coding skills and work on the firmware some as well and try to contribute... At least a little...

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I might pass that idea on to Collin he might really like that. It's good for sales..
we might as well make a thread on the forums about it "like hey post 360 deg photos of your MakerFarm Printer"
and get it pined

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Great ideas! Make it so! :D
http://starbaseatlanta.com/ebaypics/stmangab20493.jpg

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We should really leave this thread to sniffle, but Colin is likely at best in a gray area regarding the design files. It has been brought up before that modifications to reprap designs are required to be made available for others to use as they see fit. Marketing the printers as a Prusa variation formalizes the reprap legacy. I don't know the ins and outs of the licensing myself, but here's some text for reference from http://creativecommons.org/tag/reprap in regards to the reprap project - "This means that anyone can copy and improve the project as long as they share alike their modifications, just as one must with GPL’ed free and open source software".

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I think a file sharing thread is in order. Sort of a one stop shop for makerfarm related files.

I like this idea. Of course we could just make a github and then have a pinned post to that github. And make one the forum admins owner of it so that wont be lost if a member decides to disappear

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i really suck at titles on threads :-P

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Yeah i think this should be another thread but i also dont mind its something to chat about while i wait on ups to deliver my printer parts...

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You could always close this one and start a new one when you start building, using that thread title you've been dreaming of.

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I think a file sharing thread is in order. Sort of a one stop shop for makerfarm related files.

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Before my build, I remember reading how some people put the wood pieces on a scanner to capture them before their printer was assembled. Regarding the sharing thread and git hub type approach, I personally have mixed feelings. Part of me likes the idea, but I don't want to see us do something that makes it easy for an overseas outfit to take the design and run with it. They could anyway, but I'd hate to see us do the groundwork for them.

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You could always close this one and start a new one when you start building, using that thread title you've been dreaming of.



Before my build, I remember reading how some people put the wood pieces on a scanner to capture them before their printer was assembled. Regarding the sharing thread and git hub type approach, I personally have mixed feelings. Part of me likes the idea, but I don't want to see us do something that makes it easy for an overseas outfit to take the design and run with it. They could anyway, but I'd hate to see us do the groundwork for them.

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Oh i plan on it :-D i'm hoping to take lots of pics as well :-)

the thing is, if the chinese copy the work at least it will be copies of high quality items :-P

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Regarding the sharing thread and git hub type approach, I personally have mixed feelings. Part of me likes the idea, but I don't want to see us do something that makes it easy for an overseas outfit to take the design and run with it. They could anyway, but I'd hate to see us do the groundwork for them.

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I fully agree, I can't see the need creating a library of models for the wood pieces that make up out makerfarm printers if that was being suggested. Unless it sets on fire or something, if one of your parts breaks you still easily put it back together and measure the dimensions to draw up your own model. I'm sure if you're one of Colin's customers and you have an issue he might even send you a cad drawing for a part. Or one of us could easily help you out privately.

What types of files would we share that aren't already captured by thingiverse or github?

i think it's just to get together a compilation of makerfarm specific printer files.

Correct all of the makerfarm files are available but scattered all over the place i have found all the cut files except the i3v12. Being that makerfarm is a Prusa it is and should be open source. .

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i think it's just to get together a compilation of makerfarm specific printer files.

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FWIW, I think people have reported Colin just sending them replacement parts when he was contacted after something was damaged.

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I'm sure if you're one of Colin's customers and you have an issue he might even send you a cad drawing for a part.

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He will. I cracked the i3v X idler bearing holder (not enough to break it completely), and asked Colin for a .stl of the part. It took a little time, but he did send it to me. I asked him for it because I didn't want to remove it from the printer to measure it and risk really breaking it and not be able to print the replacement. You have to be *really* specific in what you want, and maybe even take a photo of the piece and circle the part needed, so he knows for sure what you want.

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I remember reading how some people put the wood pieces on a scanner to capture them before their printer was assembled.

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Hmm, I may do that next time I get really bored. :)

Shutting this one down :-) time to start up the 12" build thread


Edit: cant close thread for whatever reason...

Either way im good with continuing the conversation here or elsewhere

i agree with everything about that.. stuff involved with my project will for now will be part of my build log..
but in the USA CC and open source seam to mean nothing just look at what happen to bukkit server it took forever to get that fixed
and yes i play minecraft but only when i can't sleep i design stuff with redstone so sue me lol

as a side note what i mean by saying i will NOT give out any cad files. is i will not give out the org files or org spec that colin has put his work into
this means nothing for modded files i plain on modding a lot of things and posting the modded files on GrabCAD/Thingiverse
this is a hobby whats the point if you can't share it.
i even plain on offering metal frame kits soon for the 8" and 12" i3v's at some point soon
witch i will post the DXF files for so others with water jet machines can make them..

I took the top piece of the right hand Z-axis assembly (where the screw that sets the Z-axis limit position) from my printer, scanned it and used the scan to make an stl file that I could print.


I'm also working on a mod to the front of the left hand Z-axis assembly which will allow the servo motor from the self-leveling probe move further to the left so that I get my full X-axis travel back.

Attachment 3940

I'm going to post the stl file for that mod here, because although it will be freely available, the people who see it are more-or-less family. I don't see that as undermining Colin's effort in creating the cutting files for his business.

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https://gitorious.org/ozzloy/makerfa...e107773d59e2c:

Is it okay to take a closed format file and convert it like that? I don't know how this DRM stuff works.