Comments on: Great Day – and first print with the makerbot http://www.antitronics.com/?p=66 Hack, Make, Teach Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:35:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sconklin http://www.antitronics.com/?p=66&cpage=1#comment-14 sconklin Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:49:40 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=66#comment-14 Bre, thanks for the encouragement. I was running 005 (more on that in a sec), but it was very likely that the problems were due to scheduling issues. I was printing from a machine that's running the bleeding edge daily builds of the Ubuntu Karmic release, and I've seen pauses in the system that the user can detect, especially when running firefox (which I was to read the makerbot wiki). Today I'll see what I can learn about that, ,as it's something that needs to be addressed in the O.S. anyway. I was aware of the 006 issues because I've been following the mailing list. The path I took for software was: Finding 007 and deciding to try the bleeding edge Seeing that 007 wanted me to have later firmware Trying unsuccessfully to build the firmware Trying to run 007 with old firmware anyway Having it print great up to a point and then freeze Backing up to 005. Bre, thanks for the encouragement.

I was running 005 (more on that in a sec), but it was very likely that the problems were due to scheduling issues. I was printing from a machine that’s running the bleeding edge daily builds of the Ubuntu Karmic release, and I’ve seen pauses in the system that the user can detect, especially when running firefox (which I was to read the makerbot wiki). Today I’ll see what I can learn about that, ,as it’s something that needs to be addressed in the O.S. anyway. I was aware of the 006 issues because I’ve been following the mailing list.

The path I took for software was:

Finding 007 and deciding to try the bleeding edge
Seeing that 007 wanted me to have later firmware
Trying unsuccessfully to build the firmware
Trying to run 007 with old firmware anyway
Having it print great up to a point and then freeze
Backing up to 005.

]]> By: bre http://www.antitronics.com/?p=66&cpage=1#comment-13 bre Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:02:38 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=66#comment-13 Congrats! This looks awesome! Tweaking can take some time, but it looks like you're on your way. There are a few things that I think you can do to fix up your prints. 1. Are you using Replicator 0006? If so, go back to 0005. There are problems with 6 and blobbing. 2. Are you running other things on your machine? We've had stops happen when the computer can't give the machine it's full attention. Again, nice print, awesome! Congrats! This looks awesome! Tweaking can take some time, but it looks like you’re on your way. There are a few things that I think you can do to fix up your prints.

1. Are you using Replicator 0006? If so, go back to 0005. There are problems with 6 and blobbing.

2. Are you running other things on your machine? We’ve had stops happen when the computer can’t give the machine it’s full attention.

Again, nice print, awesome!

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