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Fabrication (printer) is close to ready so I ordered the LEDs and resistors from Digi-Key. $125 just for those items... Was able to get 3 of the 4 resistors in the physical size I wanted. The 4th is a bit bigger. Will have to revise the PCB layout to accommodate.
Got charged $11 in tariff fees for the China-sourced (Kingbright) LEDs. That was a surprise. The resistors were from Japan (Panasonic) and did NOT have a tariff added. The LEDs were very specifically chosen for their size and performance and no other manufacturer I found offered a comparable alternative. I tested about a dozen different ones.
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The work you're doing is really super impressive. I have nowhere near the understanding that you obviously do, but enough to kind of follow along and stay completely fascinated and interested. And I've learned a TON reading your posts! Please keep them coming... Even if there aren't always a lot of replies, I think many of us are interested!
(we just don't always post anything because we would just look dumb )
Got the LEDs and resistors. These should be interesting to solder by hand.
Need to solder about 260 LEDs and 80 resistors.
Also, the new printer has a heartbeat. Would have done a test print this weekend but I forgot to order one little connector for the extrusion heater.
Got pretty much everything here for the heated enclosure too. Waiting for some fans and the actual strip heater and still need to design and make some mounting brackets and such but it's coming together.
Been watching as you progress. Good stuff. I'd been telling my dad that this is something I wanted to start looking into but he just laughed and started on the "Short Attention-span theater" comments.
Recently got a tabletop CNC. Cool, does what I wanted but still not everything I thought it would be. I could upgrade also. Funny how that works out.
As I've learned more about this type of home /hobby manufacturing the idea of adding a small CNC has been growing on me.
There are a lot of decent options for not terrible money now. Been looking at MPCNC (Mostly Printed CNC) and Open Builds systems. Probably nothing in the near future but my gears are turning and that's usually a bad (good?) sign...
As I've learned more about this type of home /hobby manufacturing the idea of adding a small CNC has been growing on me.
There are a lot of decent options for not terrible money now. Been looking at MPCNC (Mostly Printed CNC) and Open Builds systems. Probably nothing in the near future but my gears are turning and that's usually a bad (good?) sign...
We have a tabletop multi axis CNC machine at work thats used almost exclusively for etching machine tags. The brand name escapes me at the moment, but it is a neat little tool. Ive played around with it a little bit, but weve only scratched the surface of what it can do.
Enclosure holds the main printer mainboard, Raspberry Pi 3B (for network comms and some aux systems control), PID heater controller, printer display, cooling fan, and some MOSFET switching modules.
Heater is a 120V, 350W Vulcan finned strip heater in a custom steel housing. Airflow is handled by four 40mm fans capable of a total of about 20 CFM. Black parts are custom printed. Bottom is smoothly radiused inside for the air and has toolless fan mounting. The wedge at the top is just to cover the AC connections. Unregulated at 25C ambient, it maintains about 150C output air temp and the housings remain at ambient.
Working on the last (hopefully) revision for the water cooling system now.
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