We've laid out most of the parts here. We ended up using a second desk just for tools and each had our own little work space. Worked great for parallel building. Most of the X/Y stage parts are foreground.
Tiny neodymium magnets about 5mm cubed make up the platform latch. These little magnets will launch across the room if you're not careful.
Y Stage Assembly
X Stage Assembly
X Stage Stepper Motor and idler wheel installed
Y Stage in place, but not fully mounted. You can start to imagine how this works...
X/Y Stage fully assembled! As the belt is moved by the motor, the Y stage moves left and right.
Build platform adapter mounted. The neodymium magnets will hold the build platform onto this adapter.
Outer Shell
Here we have the circuit boards laid out.
Circuit boards mounted and Alan assembles the outer shell.
There is a slight burnt wood smell from the laser cutting that takes me back to my Dad's woodshop.
The final pieces are being assembled on the outer shell. Power supply also has its own base plate.
Here the outer shell is fully assembled and power supply installed.
Z Stage Assembly
Parts are laid out for Z Stage assembly
Stepper motor, Z-Rods, idler pullies
The entire system turns, causing the vertical rods to rotate. The build platform rides on nuts threaded by the vertical rods. This makes the build platform ride up and down at your beckon.
Fingers becoming sufficiently hosed from work more appropriate for factory worker children.
FINAL ASSEMBLY
X/Y Stage taking position. Skipped a step here where we installed the horizontal slider rods. It is now starting to look like a robot.
From here you can imagine how it works. The X/Y stage provides movement in two dimensions along a plane horizontal to the table. When the extruder is installed, it will ride up and down along the vertical Z-Rods by sitting on those nuts you can see in the middle of the rod.
Getting most of our cabling hooked up. It's hard to see, but the extruder platform is mounted here as well.
Work it
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