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I upgraded two Prusa MK3s to MK3.9, and ended up with a couple of spare boards, stepper motors and a bunch of other things. So I decided to turn them into a Makelangelo clone!
Since the school I work at had these large standing whiteboards, I designed and printed corner brackets to hold the motors, as well as a base for the electronics.
I'm still having trouble with the homing process, but very happy with the results so far!
I'll be posting the firmware and 3d printed files online soon.
What the what? Did you just turn a 3d printer into a 2d printer? This is amazing! Only a 1d printer would astonish me more!
... Would that be a seismograph?
Im afraid it would just be a thing that makes perfectly straight lines :(
That you couldn't see, since they'd have no thickness, only length
Maybe a printer that adds Morse code on a string.
That's still 2 dimensions.
How do you keep the pen tips vertical position accurate as it pens around without something dragging in the drawings?
I'm not perfectly sure I understand your question, but if you see it in action, this thing is really wobbly. Not much precision there.
I was basically just asking how wobbly it is, haha.
You’re amazing
That's really cool!
I've been thinking of doing just this as well. Though with ender parts or something else left over. Very cool to see someone's actually made it happen.
You should check this post out if you ever go ahead with it: https://www.marginallyclever.com/2021/10/friday-facts-4-how-to-marlin-polargraph/
Oh, I'm definitely stashing that. Thank you.
