Building a MakerBot CNC 3D Printer Robot – Step One: Inventorization
“I am an open, hackable robot for making nearly anything.”
We pride ourselves as being ‘explorers’ and this week we began another exciting expedition. We are building a Makerbot CupCake CNC 3D Additive Printer.
Simply put our “robot” is the brainchild of some of the brilliant minds contributing to Make Magazine that have started their own company (MakerBot Industries) producing open-source hardware robots that print three-dimensional objects (of just about anything) using ABS plastic (and a few other variants) or frosting (see ‘the frostruder’). It is a derivative of the RepRap self-replicating robot movement (also open-source hardware) and is gaining quite a bit of popularity among technology enthusiasts who want to experiment designing real-world objects.
Below you will find a photo documentation of our first few hours of progress. We’ll post more as the work continues.
The Unboxing... Lots of parts.
Hey Cool! A tube of skate bearings!
Kim found the belts!
The RepRap Motherboard (under a rainbow...sigh!)
The extruder controller board
The axis (X/Y/Z) motoro controllers
Kim checks, sorts, and detaches the lasercut wood components
This doesn't look anything like the picture of the parts provided in the kit!
The X-Stage subkit.
The Y-Stage subkit.
The Z-Stage subkit.
The body assembly subkit.
The X-Y Stage subkit.
The proud categorizers (Kim, Joe)
I think after we finish this we will need to build a rabid security bot to guard our cute little “cupcake.”
TTFN!
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on May 28, 2010
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