Its "built", still far from "done"

Hello again!

Time is running out, there are just 15 days till the end of the world, and most importantly 21 days till the end of the year! And I have told so many people that the printer will be working by that time, that I will feel really stupid if it does not :P

Now for the news.

I built it.
The printer I mean.
Its done.
I mean...

...everything is mounted, wired, etc. Ready for plugging in. In fact I did try it out yesterday. The electronics fried :D Here is how it was: I plugged the wires to the endstops, hot-end and termistor, not to the engines (was afraid). Wanted to test one thing at a time. That was a good call, since the circuit path delivering power to the endstops fried, vaporised, burned, you get the picture. Hopefully it was just not "big" enough to sustain given current load, and that there are no short circuits on the board.
The good news is that the board communicates with my PC, loads the programs and seems to be cooperating.
Now it is "just" to repair the board, calibrate the printer, install newer Ubuntu (I am mad as hell for that. The so called Pronterface python script for easy use of the printer works only for Ubuntu 10.10 and higher. I love my 10.04...) and probably looots of lesser tweaks. That's the fun ;)

There will be no photos right now, deal with it. Yes, yes I know "pics or didn't happen"- well, maybe today evening.

Have a nice snowy day :)