Your workshop :)

[scalz]

@Samuel235 i know the d-bot, it's a nice printer (mine is older). but i'm planning to use as much as possible aluminium on my next one. I think it's too bad to use aluminium slots, with printed parts for the corners etc.. So i've picked ideas from multiple designs to make a new custom one.

There are still a few tools i'm missing though ;)

[Samuel235]

@scalz - I love to see custom hybrids of solid printers! If you make a blog post or something on your new build at any point please drop me a link to it so i can have a look :)

What could you possibly be missing when you're doing this at a hobby level? o.O

[Yveaux]

@Samuel235 said in Your workshop :):

What could you possibly be missing when you're doing this at a hobby level? o.O

Laser cutter? :satisfied:

[Samuel235]

@Yveaux - He doesn't need any more encoraging!

[dbemowsk]

I have to say, my slightly modded Anet A8 printer that I bought recently has been doing pretty good. I had been looking at some point to migrating the electronics to a coreXY frame, but that probably won't be any time soon.Besides, it does what I need for now..

[Samuel235]

@dbemowsk - If you only want it to do what you need it to do then you're all good. I'm a little bit of a perfectionist and whether or not i need it to have a feature, i tend to attempt to get the printer to have that feature anyway. But at the end of the day if you're only using it for personal things and it does everything you want it to, then there is no need to change :)

What i will say though is: I thought that i would be okay with just a RAMPS and arduino board, but i pushed the boat out and went for a DUET WIFI board, and damn these things are beautiful to use!

[dbemowsk]

@Samuel235 So do you have dual extruders?

[Samuel235]

@dbemowsk - I don't. And right now i'm not even thinking about it as i've done my far share of detailed printing and i do not wish to print anything slow and small scale that requires 0.08 mm layer heights and support everywhere. My printer has been on solid for the last 88 hours on 4 prints doing exactly that.

I'm trying to slowly approach my maximum speed, printing comfortably at 60mm/s at the moment but would like a little more. My printer is pretty basic still, i'm still a student living at home so i'm saving money everywhere i can right not but as soon as i have no income issues, dual extruder, advanced bed probing, enclosure, quick change hotends with a tornado extruder maybe.

[AWI]

@gohan said in Your workshop :):

Aren't these devices basically Arduinos? It's written on the title atmega328. If so if we could get our hands on the code, we could make our own 😀

I finally found the place where the Chinese get their code and design for the "Transistortester". It comes from a german site
a very extensive project. I doubt if I will ever be able to match or even comprehend what they accomplished. :bow:

[Yveaux]

@AWI great digging! :+1:
The specs and list of functions are impressive.
Do you think the Chinese hardware is an identical copy of this design?

[gohan]

@Yveaux said in Your workshop :):

Do you think the Chinese hardware is an identical copy of this design?

Why not? Chinese are great at copying stuff :D

[Yveaux]

@gohan said in Your workshop :):

Why not? Chinese are great at copying stuff :D

Yes, and they're great in optimizing for cost; as long as any signal comes out, all components will be removed/replaced by cheaper ones...

[AWI]

@Yveaux I soldered the thing myself so build quality is .... ;-) The board I received looks to be solid as well as the components.
Accuracy in resistor/ capacitor meaurement is fine (~5% which is also the toleration of the components tested) Semiconductor analysis is enough for me with Fet / Junction transistors as I can determine the most important characteristics (including the pin layout!) which are within 10% of the datasheet. (pins are 100% correct :-))

[gohan]

@AWI did you order the parts or did you make the tester on your own with the parts you had?

[AWI]

@gohan I used a kit. There is also a description and suggestions on improvement of the "Chinese clones" in the documentation of the project.

[core_c]

@AWI "I soldered the thing myself so build quality is ...."
I guess the missing word is: "top", and the last dot is just interpunction.

[AWI]

@core_c Thanks, I missed that ;-)

[gohan]

I got my 2017 transistor tester and since the cost for the pre-assembled was not far off from the kit, I did go the lazy way and I have to say the soldering quality seems OK.

[gohan]

I need little advice: is it worth buying the Ts100 soldering iron for 50€ + some accessories (holder and one extra tip, I already have a laptop power supply I can use) or go for a Hakko FX-888D for 120€ (you get holder in the price and extra tips cost significantly lower but I don't know if I ever need many different sizes)?

[Koresh]

@gohan Imho - TS100 is beautiful toy, nice gadget, but not really useful tool. TS100 iron has much less ergonomics in comparation with others soldering stations. I recommend buy it only as extra tool, not main tool ;)