The instructions on the RepRap project wiki<\/a> are confused and make me miserable. Many pages are not maintained properly and often seem to contradict each other. Using a wiki as documentation repository is all well and fine, but it’s not very pedagogical and frustratingly difficult to find even the PCB layout for the boards, as each new design is explained by the people working on it using whatever nomenclature \u2014\u00a0or lack thereof \u2014\u00a0they fancy. I don’t expect this process to be easy, but can for the life of me not understand why you would spend thousands of hours developing an awesome project intended to be a disruptive technology, and then fuck up the instructions. I found some excellent assembly tutorials though, which should be of great help once I’m building the actual rig.<\/p>\n I had a horrible time finding ready-to-print PCB layout schemes, so I backtracked the process and am trying out PCB CAD software. I haven’t been mired in learning new software in a while, so this will be interesting. Learning stuff while doing other stuff is a feature<\/em> not a bug, so this might be an interesting way of learning more about electronics and CAD. As it is, I’m learning all skills necessary for the project on-the-go. I did some soldering in grade school, and I know how not to blow up my multimeter, and that’s about it as for my skillz<\/em>. If I manage to build this thing \u2014\u00a0and get it to run \u2014\u00a0I suspect that most any primate should be able to.<\/p>\n The first PCB software I’m trying out is Eagle from Cadsoft<\/a> For the betterment of humanity, or at least the part of it interested in rapid prototyping, I’ll try to document the process of building my RepRap. So far, I have etched a shabby PCB \u2014\u00a0it’s the Gen7 v1.2 board \u2014 and I’ve tested it for shorts. It’s not the prettiest board I’ve seen and I’ll … Continue reading Doing the RepRap #1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,546],"tags":[829,1888,1892,1495,1393,1119,1501,1497],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-projects","tag-3d-printing","tag-art","tag-projects","tag-rapid-prototyping","tag-reprap","tag-residency","tag-sumu","tag-turku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sortering_motstand.jpg\" "\\"sortering_motstand\\"")
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\nThe build instructions for the Gen7 1.2 board are here: reprap.org\/wiki\/Motherboard_1_2<\/a>
\nLayouts for the PCB are here: github.com\/Traumflug<\/a> and a ready to print PDF in Gen7Board Layout.pdf<\/code> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"