HydraRaptor

My attempts to make a rapid prototyping machine that I will use to make parts for a machine that will be able to make parts for a copy of itself.

Showing posts with label z-axis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label z-axis. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 July 2009

$8 Z-axis

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About a year ago I blogged an alternative Z-axis for Darwin using four tin can steppers instead of one expensive stepper and a belt drive. ...
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Sunday, 24 August 2008

Alternative Z-endstop

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I prefer my machine to home the z-axis away from the workpiece so that homing is always a safe operation, regardless of what state the machi...
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Thursday, 24 July 2008

A bit of a contraption

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As I was adding the diagonal tie bars my wife said "it's becoming a bit of a contraption". I am not sure if that is a good thi...
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Friday, 18 July 2008

Deviant Z axis

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The RepRap Darwin Z-axis has four screw thread drives linked by a timing belt and toothed pulleys, driven by a large stepper motor. There ar...
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Thursday, 26 June 2008

Spanning a void

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s0lstice requested that the next time HydraRaptor was extruding into fresh air I should post a video, so here is a video of a part with a la...
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