H and I finally got the Firmware uploaded. The problem was due to the version of the Arduino driver I had loaded. Once that was sorted out everything went smoothly. We did the motor and heater testing described in the online instructions and things were working, except the extruder motor and the X-axis motor were both moving in the reverse direction than they should. This was a bit mysterious because we were pretty careful when we wired up everything. But it was simple to just use the control panel in ReplicatorG to reverse the motor directions, so we didn't even need to open up the electronics area again. We got the extruder to make a very nice filiment of melted plastic, so we were pretty happy.
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| The first strand of plastic. The MakerBot is alive! |
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| Yea! |
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| ReplicatorG control panel |
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