After a 12.5 hour build , (a better term might be love/hate relationship) my GMax 1.5 XT lives! Names considered were Maxine, Maximillian, Maximus, Maxwell and Dave . Big Red was not. In the end, Red Ryder won out.
Update 2/4/2015: After further consideration, the printer was given a new name. Red Ryder wasn't feminine enough.
I thought of Lady In Red but that was too generic and I remembered an old Simpsons episode where Homer managed a country western singer named Lurlene Lumpkin so mashup the two and we have LIRlene.
After a week of tuning, cursing, printing, experimenting and cursing some more., my GMax is printing out really nice quality parts.
The LED strip under the extruder was upgraded from a 3 LED strip to a 6 LED strip and illuminates the print much better. I'm using two 18" red LED strips under the Y carriage rails for the under the bed glow and the top 18" bar has a white LED strip aiming down on the whole printer. The red LEDs are purely aesthetic but the white top strip and the increased light under the extruder is very useful.
Below LIRlene is a 3D scanning station. When complete, the kinect scanner will move vertically, as the turntable rotates. - this will be achieved with a separate arduino/motor control setup with a control box right next to the laptop. This way I can start the software (record) and have the turntable/kinect move at the same time. The scanning station is illuminated by 2 x 4' LED linear fluorescent replacement tubes.
Larry
Update 2/4/2015: After further consideration, the printer was given a new name. Red Ryder wasn't feminine enough.
I thought of Lady In Red but that was too generic and I remembered an old Simpsons episode where Homer managed a country western singer named Lurlene Lumpkin so mashup the two and we have LIRlene.
After a week of tuning, cursing, printing, experimenting and cursing some more., my GMax is printing out really nice quality parts.
The LED strip under the extruder was upgraded from a 3 LED strip to a 6 LED strip and illuminates the print much better. I'm using two 18" red LED strips under the Y carriage rails for the under the bed glow and the top 18" bar has a white LED strip aiming down on the whole printer. The red LEDs are purely aesthetic but the white top strip and the increased light under the extruder is very useful.
Below LIRlene is a 3D scanning station. When complete, the kinect scanner will move vertically, as the turntable rotates. - this will be achieved with a separate arduino/motor control setup with a control box right next to the laptop. This way I can start the software (record) and have the turntable/kinect move at the same time. The scanning station is illuminated by 2 x 4' LED linear fluorescent replacement tubes.
Larry
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