[Noisebridge-discuss] Replication Calibration II at Menlo Park TechShop

Elijah Post elijahpost at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 00:37:54 UTC 2012


I'll try to be there by 6ish (I have finals next week, so when I say try I
request leniency).

That trouble may have to do with the MakerBot Cupcake CNC (if that's what
you were using" having a DC motor extruder which is subject to that
problem. I shall attempt to solve it tonight.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Liz Henry <liz at bookmaniac.org> wrote:

> Yay, thank you!  Do you know around what time you'll be at NB? My friend
> is named Eno (I advise against Brian Eno jokes....) and she is bringing two
> teenagers with her... and she is awesome.
>
> I wish I could come -- but I am flat on my back in bed for a while longer.
> Maybe next week.
>
> Last week I tried to print my first Thing, and was using ReplicatorG. I
> generated the gcode okay, set a bunch of settings, preheated the platform,
> and got the motor drawing the shape of my object, but no stuff extruded and
> the extruder motor at the top wasn't going around.  I also couldn't open
> the "control panel" part of ReplicatorG.  My only thought here is that
> maybe it is using some Java or Python library I don't have and I need to
> figure out what version of Java and Python ReplicatorG is expecting.  I
> haven't tried that angle yet...
>
> - Liz
>
>
>
>
> On 1/4/12 1:18 PM, Elijah Post wrote:
>
>> I'll be around tonight and would love to show how it works. We are in the
>> process of building our fleet of printers, so it may be interesting to see
>> what is going on.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Liz Henry<liz at bookmaniac.org>  wrote:
>>
>>  Are people going to be around for Replicator Wednesday at Noisebridge
>>> tonight?  A friend of mine was hoping to come by with her friends who
>>> really would love to see how the 3D printers work.
>>>
>>> I'm not feeling well and can't make it to NB tonight, but would like to
>>> tell her if other people who know how to use the replicators will be
>>> around...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - Liz
>>>
>>> On 1/3/12 8:05 PM, Elijah Post wrote:
>>>
>>>> Replication Calibration is thought of as an all-day event that happens
>>>> on
>>>> Saturdays once a month. It it were to be on Wednesday the 25th, (like
>>>> Replicator Roadshow or the SF based Rep Wednesday) there'd be greatly
>>>> reduced attendance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jon<jon.pannell at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I just checked with TS MP and there is another meeting scheduled on the
>>>>> 18th for the main meeting room.  The computer lab is available, but I
>>>>>
>>>> think
>>>
>>>> it will not have enough room for us and all the bots.  I have scheduled
>>>>>
>>>> the
>>>
>>>> main room on the 25th.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jon
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>
> "Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to
> evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ
>



-- 
*Elijah Louis Spenser Post
Mechanic (San Francisco Bike Kitchen)*
*Participant (NoiseRep at Noisebridge)*
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