Pics, wrap and progress

Hello Internet :)

Its been a while... again... Well, believe it or not, I have so called "real life", and it has taken a lot of my time lately.

It seems I finally got (almost) all the parts needed for the printer.
At the list below, you will find prices not mentioned in previous posts (for electronics, motor controllers, power source, etc). All prices refer to the period around mid 2012.
Here are some pics, and below is a list, with cost of all the stuff.

1. Gen.7 v1.4.1 electronics.	2. Gen.7 v1.4.1 electronics not soldered.
3. Screws, washers, bearings. etc.	4. Timing belts and "hot end".
5. 420W computer power source.	6. 5x bipolar stepper motors
7. 4x Polulu stepper motor controllers.	8. 3x Gen.7 v1.3.1 optical endstops.
9. 0.5 kg ABS plastic.	10. Printing bed and parts.
11. Metal rods.	12. Shoe rack ;)

- What the hell does this shoe rack do there?
Well, I needed to buy 21.5 x 21.5cm wood board for the printing bed. Unfortunately the smallest boards in the store were 50x100cm. In that case, I bought one board, cut it and made a shoe rack for my wife (and me). Had to show off a bit, this blog is here also for that reason :P

Now the gathered prices of all this nice stuff.

• Metal stuff (local store):
• 90 M8 nuts,
• 100 M8 washers,
• 6 M8x30 washers (bigger),
• 2 M4x20 bolts
• 2 M4 nuts,
• 2 M4 washers,
• 22 M3x10 bolts,
• 16 M3x25 bolts,
• 4 M3x40 bolts,
• ~70 M3 washers,
• 40 M3 nuts;
• Total cost: ~10eu;
• Metal rods (local stores):
• 6x M8x1m threaded rods;
• 3x 8mm x1m smooth rods (quite hard to get);
• Total cost: ~35eu;
• Printed plastic parts from Allegro (polish eBay):
• Cost with shipment from Poland: ~50eu;
• 5 bipolar motors (Allegro):
• Cost with shipment from Poland: ~83eu;
• 2 Timing belts (Allegro):
• Cost with shipment from Poland: ~12eu;
• Hotend (Allegro):
• The hotend;
• Heating resistor;
• Thermocouple;
• Cost with shipment from Poland: ~55eu;
• Bearings (Allegro):
• 14x LM08UU;
• 4x standard 608 2RS;
• Cost with shipment from Poland: ~28eu;
• Filament (eBay):
• 0.5kg 3mm filament;
• Cost with shipment from Holland: ~18eu;
• Electronics (from awesome Mr Marcus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/):
• Gen.7 v-1.4.1 PCB board;
• Electronic elements for the board;
• 3x Gen.7 v1.3.1 endstop PCB boards;
• Electronic elements for endstops;
• Cost with shipment from Germany: ~68eu;
• Stepper motor controllers (Allegro):
• 4x Polulu controllers (12eu each)
• Total cost with shipment from Poland: ~55eu;
• Used 420W computer power supply (local shop):
• Cost: 15eu;
• Cables to connect all this stuff (not bought yet):
• Estimated cost: ~20eu;
• TTL to USB converter
• 15 eu;
• TOTAL COST: ~465eu

Since I am away from home (and my dads garage), in addition to all the above parts, I needed to buy some (all) tools, for which I spent around 50eu.

And last but not least, I will have to get some old computer (PentuimIII 512MB?) to control the printing process. I hope some friend will give me one for a bottle of wine ;)

Finally a note regarding progress:

As it can be seen on picture 1 and 8, I started soldering. The parts arrived not soldered, as in picture 2.
I wanted to post a movie showing my work, but stupid Ubuntu recording program guvcview screwed something with the codecs... Will figure it out and post some movie next time ;)

Thats it for today! :)
Have a nice weekend!