Veruca Gloop

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Equipment Overview

Owner/Loaner: LVL1 owned Serial Number: 2230 Make/Model: Makerbot Cupcake CNC Arrival Date: Raised from the boxes and to life October 16, 2010 Usability: Working Contact: Tim M. Where: along east wall next to white cabinet

Specifications

• Audrey 2 Mark 5 Extruder head
• Usable Build Area: 100mm Width x 100mm Depth x 130mm Height
• X/Y Positioning Resolution: 0.085mm
• Z Positioning Resolution: 3.125 microns
• Maximum X/Y Feed rate: 5000mm/minute
• Maximum Z Feed rate: 200mm/minute
• Typical Z-layer height: 0.3725mm
• Outside measurements: 350mm x 240mm x 450mm

Printer settings

ReplicatorG needs specific Replicatorg settings to use Veruca correctly.

If you extract the folders in the file located here into the replicotorg version 24 or 25 folder you can have magical fun time

the main two things you will find is a machines file that makes replicatorg understand how to talk to Veruca, (Cupcake with stepstrudder and HBP) and skeinforge settings that have the correct start and stop settings to keep you from destroying your thing.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16139053/replicatorg-patch.zip

Modifications

• Z axis crank http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:975
• Y axis belt tensioner http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1618
• Z axis wobble arrester http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3057

Working on it

• Z axis wobble
  • http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2151
  • everything is printed and shafts are in
  • parts are installed needs to be tweaked
• Automated Build platform belt wobbles
  • I have no idea maybe a new belt made of thick kapton tape built to a tighter tolerance. covering it with pieces of narrow kapton seems to work for now.

Known Problems

• extruder motor seized Fixed with http://wiki.makerbot.com/the-great-motor-mystery
• Power supply died replaced with RMA
• Z axis wobble It will die
• Automated Build platform belt wobbles allowing print to move -- this part has been removed until a suitable solution can be devised

Future Ideas

• Print wireless using bluetooth http://wiki.makerbot.com/bluetooth-communication
• Making our own filament http://hackaday.com/2010/08/05/recyclebot-digests-milk-jugs-to-feed-makerbot/