Friday 6 January 2012

It Lives!!

A lot of work has been done over the Xmas break and I've finally got the Z-Axis working using a test program which cycles all axes.

I've used an Audrino Mega 1280 with RAMPS 1.4 Sheild and wired from this to external Gecko G251 Stepper Drives. Only one stepper driver is fitted so far as I wanted to test that it would actually work before purchasing all four.

A few things still to do;

Limit switches on all axes
X belt idler
Waiting for 2x more stepper motors to arrive
Waiting for 3x gecko drives to arrive
Machine heated bed
Belt tensioners for extruder
Extruder nozzle heater and thermistor