{"id":4402,"date":"2011-08-15T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2014-07-07T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T11:21:01","slug":"doing-the-reprap-6-%e2%80%94%c2%a0repair-rebuild-rejoice-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/doing-the-reprap-6-%e2%80%94%c2%a0repair-rebuild-rejoice-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the RepRap #6 \u2014\u00a0repair, rebuild, rejoice, despair."},"content":{"rendered":"

In anticipation of fucking shit up<\/em> I had ordered two ATMegas and having succeeded once it took me one try to get the bootloader to take this time around. The board looked fine, but after a lot of trial and error, error, and error, I resigned to the fact that my Pololus probably were fried and ordered new ones. And that, kids, is how you literally burn 600 SEK by being a lazy bum and not double-checking your solders. Lesson learned and so on.<\/p>\n

Having received the new Pololus, and with an extruder underway from the States and the plastic parts coming over from Australia, I only need to get the motors to spin to have a semblance of a printer up and running. I have most metal parts except for some springs and wingnuts, and to celebrate the birthplace of the machine I got some SKF<\/a> 608 bearings. Oh, and I still need two T5 timing belts<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the IRC channel I was suggested to use Pronterface.py instead of ReplicatorG as a computer side controller of the board, but after the first few times I couldn’t get the thing to launch and reverted to ReplicatorG. Not that it matters at the moment, because even with the ATMega replaced and properly bootloaded and running Gen7 Teacup, I can’t get any readings or functions out of it. I made a video of my attempts and you can watch it below; it’s dry but you get to watch me prod an inanimate object with clumsy fingers.<\/p>\n

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