I got back from vacation on Sunday. I had a fantastic time driving through the Pacific Northwest. Lots of gorgeous scenery. Anyway, I’m finally almost caught up with things. I only have about 19 / 50 orders left to ship and those are all just waiting on out of stock parts. [...]
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I’m really really really excited to announce this new product. This one was directly conceived, funded, and produced here by the RRRF as a direct result of the kind souls who have supported us so far. To get to the meat, the Sanguino is a new microcontroller board inspired by the Arduino. [...]
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Magnetic Rotary Encoder v1.0
I’m proud to announce a new kit today that is the result of a couple of months of solid work. It is called the Magnetic Rotary Encoder, and it is awesome! When assembled, this board provides positioning feedback in multiple data formats. It uses a magnet, so there are [...]
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Whew! I finally managed to catch up on orders and assemble 100 more stepper motor driver kits. The end result is that there are now 25 complete reprap electronic kits available for sale. The biggest holdup was a 10 day wait to get new PCBs made, but I have 80 more [...]
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I’m proud to announce that we finally have a kit available of all the electronics you’ll need to build a RepRap machine! This is a big step forward, and is something we’ve been slowly working toward for an entire year now. Each kit contains all the electronic components, and PCBs you need to [...]
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As the RRRF grows and matures from a crazy idea started in my tiny Brooklyn apartment, I’m gradually starting to apply better business practices. Previously, I had been setting prices by taking the costs, and adding a markup that ‘felt right’. Well, now ‘felt right’ has a number value: 30% for most [...]
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Yay! I just put the the last piece in the puzzle for getting the electronics required to drive a RepRap machine! With the completion of the Stepper Motor Driver v1.1 Kit, the RRRF now offers kits of all the electronics needed to build a RepRap machine. That means you dont have to [...]
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With the help of George and Alicia at NYC Resistor, we recently assembled 100 total electronics kits! 50 of them are DC Motor Drivers, and 50 of them are PWM Drivers.
New Kit: PWM Driver v1.1
This kit allows you to drive things like heaters, fans, solenoids, etc. It uses TIP120’s which can put out [...]
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I made up a bunch of new kits today. Slowly but surely, I’m working closer to the goal of being able to offer a full RepRap electronics kit. Only 3 boards left!
Anyway, here are the kits:
Temperature Sensor v1.1 Kit
This kit allows you to measure the temperature on your extruder using a thermistor. [...]
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