Back in the Saddle Again!
I got a fresh shipment of boards in from China today. Man its fun opening that package and seeing the nicely stacked, gleaming boards ready to start a revolution. Anyway, pretty much everything is back in stock. Very awesome! Also, now that I’m doing larger orders, the prices are dropping. Of course, the savings are passed on to you!
Universal Controller v1.2.1 Price drop!
New version of the board with better component placement, real mounting holes, and a much improved silk screen!! Not only that, but its now only $7 instead of $8. There are 50 boards now, and I’m going to be putting in an order for another 75 tomorrow. I dare you guys to buy all of them. 
Opto Endstop v1.0.1
A small revision on the existing board. Real mounting holes (no drilling!) It also has some silkscreen text to make it look cooler (board version # as well as the reprap.org plug. i know, we have no shame 
Looking forward, we’re getting more plastic, keeping normal boards in stock, and hopefully doing a bulk order of stepper motors to make your life easier (and mine harder…)
Filed under: New Products
any news on when the cartesian robot parts will be available?
btw: this webshop is really great! it’s perfect for enabling all people to participate in this free hardware project. thanks!
thank you! like most open source things, it started as a way to scratch a particular itch (in particular, how i could get hard parts to build my reprap) and it turned out to be useful for a bunch of other people.
a quick update on where we’re at on mechanical parts:
* we should be getting the mechanical parts for the extruder in stock in a week or two. yay!
* the cartesian bot parts will take longer. they can really only be made via RP, so its either pay $$$$$ or wait for a darwin / repstrap to work well enough to make them. when we pull that off, trust me you’ll know =)
if you’re chomping at the bit to get started, i have two suggestions:
1. if you have the cash to spare, get a commercial cnc type mill without motors and electronics. hook up our motors and electronics, add our extruder and you basically have a reprap system.
2. attempt to build a repstrap. its a tough challenge, but its fun and rewarding as well.