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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Your absolutely right… The Mega can be used as the controller using the RAMPS shield. That seems to be the preferred option at the moment electronics wise. I went for a ramps kit from e-bay and soldered it together myself. But as we have skills and materials it would be good to see someone create a ramps board or other control electronics from scratch. Would be a useful experience for anyone who has not created a board before. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am using stepstick drivers and an sd card hopefully will allow for better printing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://reprap.org/wiki/Sdramps#RAMPS_1.3_with_Sprinter_firmware">http://reprap.org/wiki/Sdramps#RAMPS_1.3_with_Sprinter_firmware</a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Firmware is available an is open source so can be modified to your needs via the Arduino interface.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> As far as stepper motors go… If you look at zapp automation website they have a couple of stepper motors that fit the bill. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.zappautomation.co.uk/sy42sth471684b-p-29.html">http://www.zappautomation.co.uk/sy42sth471684b-p-29.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the SY42STH47-1684B is listed on the reprap site as being suitable and is AFAIK (hope so anyway, they are already bolted on) compatible with RAMPS. <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am so busy, but I expect that I will be able to show a competed if not tested printer on the 15<sup>th</sup>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[IMG]<a href="http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h219/justblair/IMG_20110907_180758.jpg%5b/IMG">http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h219/justblair/IMG_20110907_180758.jpg[/IMG</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The link above will show you just how far ahead I am on the build… Frustratingly close!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> members-bounces@electronclub.org [mailto:members-bounces@electronclub.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kieran Wyse<br><b>Sent:</b> 07 September 2011 14:55<br><b>To:</b> Discussion list for the Electron Club<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ELECTRON] Proposed new club + Arduino meet up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I've been doing a little research. There seems to be a development to use a arduino mega as the electrons, RAMPS. Don't yet know if can still use the same stepper motors with it. Would be a nice tie in to the ardiuno group though. <br><br>Still trying to get my head around exactly what is involved in building one of these. Any should be fun.<br><br>Kieran<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 30 August 2011 15:17, blair thompson <<a href="mailto:mail@justblair.co.uk" target="_blank">mail@justblair.co.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>This looks possible at the moment, but the nature of my work means I can't make promises on school nights... :) <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>-- <br>Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:steven.oshea@o2.co.uk" target="_blank">steven.oshea@o2.co.uk</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Excellent work, I will attend as I am very interested in this <br>technology.<br><br><br><br><br>----Original Message----<br>From: <a href="mailto:kieranwyse@gmail.com" target="_blank">kieranwyse@gmail.com</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Date: Aug 29, 2011 11:12 <br>To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club"<<a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Proposed new club + Arduino meet up<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>HI all, great to hear from you all.<br><br>I've booked the club for 7.00 till 9.00 on thurs the 15th, I guess I <br>can change it if this does not suit. I've booked it for a reprap it <br>but would be great to talk about the arduino as well.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>From what I understand the five things that could be said to make up a <br>reprap are.<br><br>1.Electronics.<br><br>2. Frame.<br><br>3. Servos.<br><br>4. Software.<br><br>5.Printer head.<br><br>This is what we have to acquire or build, <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>Blair great work! would you mind bring in for us.<br><br>Anyway really looking forward to seeing you all. <br><br>Kieran.<br><br><br><br><br><br>On 26 August 2011 09:12, Brian Loudon <<a href="mailto:brian@loud1design.co.uk" target="_blank">brian@loud1design.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hey, well done Blair! <br><br>Sorry for not keeping in touch on this, I'm still up for getting <br>involved in a reprap build. When's the next arduino meet up?<br><br><br><br><br>On 25/08/2011 12:54, blair thompson wrote: I built my prusa frame last <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>night, I have done it the cheats way, bought kits for the bulk of the <br>parts. <br>-- <br>Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br>Kieran Wyse <<a href="mailto:kieranwyse@gmail.com" target="_blank">kieranwyse@gmail.com</a>> wrote: HI all,<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Long time no hear!.<br><br>Anyway I am going to start a new club building a reprap it is going to <br>meet fortnightly either at my house or the electon club. Anyone is <br>welcome to come. To be truethful I don't have the foggiest idea how we <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>are going to build it, should be fun:). <br><br><br>Does any one know how i go about getting on the electron club list, ( <br>am I already?) and setting this club up.<br><br> I have lots of ideas about using the arduino board, we should <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>definitely book a date in september to meet up. Shall we just book a <br>date. Saturday the 10th of September seems like as good date as any.<br><br>What do you think<br><br>Kieran.<br><br><br>On 3 July 2011 20:45, <<a href="mailto:members-owner@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members-owner@electronclub.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Your email has been rejected as you do not appear to be subscribed to<br>this list. If you are a subscriber please check you have used the same<br>email address as the one you joined from, or else contact:<br><a href="mailto:info@electronclub.org" target="_blank">info@electronclub.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Kieran Wyse <<a href="mailto:kieranwyse@gmail.com" target="_blank">kieranwyse@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 20:45:18 +0100<br>Subject: Arduino meeting<br>Really enjoned playing with the Arduino boards, want one now, I might <br>have to raid the piggy bank. Thank you to every one who put hard work <br>into organising it. <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Has anyone had any more ideas about a project?<br><br>Kieran <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>members mailing list <br><a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a> <a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi</a>-<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>bin/mailman/listinfo/members Instructions for changing your mailing <br>list settings: <a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a> Archive <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>for this list: <a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members</a>/ <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>members mailing list<br><a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br><br>Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Archive for this list:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members</a>/<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>members mailing list<br><a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br><br>Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Archive for this list:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members</a>/<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>members mailing list<br><a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br><br>Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a><br><br>Archive for this list:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>