Reprap electronics.
You can find numerous ways to gather all your electronics. For anyone who wants to read the whole story I would suggest you check out this Wiki.
Basically a set consists of these components:
· The Computer/Reprap interface, usually built on an Arduino board.
· Four stepper motor drivers to control the motors for the extruder
and the 3 translation axis.
· 4 DC stepper motors
· At least 3 opto endstops to prevent collisions...
· A heater for the extruder
· A temperature sensor for the extruder
· Sometimes a controller board that combines the control for the
heater and the temperature sensor.
· optional you can choose a heated printbed for which you would
need heaters and a temperature sensor.
It started by buying a RepRap Monolithic Electronics Set from Techzone Communications.
This looked a lot better than the sets that use seperate stepper motor drivers. Drivers for this hardware can be found here. In my case (Windows 7 64bit) the drivers were not found automatically.
You can find numerous ways to gather all your electronics. For anyone who wants to read the whole story I would suggest you check out this Wiki.
Basically a set consists of these components:
· The Computer/Reprap interface, usually built on an Arduino board.
· Four stepper motor drivers to control the motors for the extruder
and the 3 translation axis.
· 4 DC stepper motors
· At least 3 opto endstops to prevent collisions...
· A heater for the extruder
· A temperature sensor for the extruder
· Sometimes a controller board that combines the control for the
heater and the temperature sensor.
· optional you can choose a heated printbed for which you would
need heaters and a temperature sensor.
It started by buying a RepRap Monolithic Electronics Set from Techzone Communications.
This looked a lot better than the sets that use seperate stepper motor drivers. Drivers for this hardware can be found here. In my case (Windows 7 64bit) the drivers were not found automatically.
