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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Salinas
Book Image

3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Salinas

Overview of this book

A systematic guide consisting of over 100 recipes which focus on helping you understand the process of 3D printing using RepRap machines. The book aims at providing professionals with a series of working recipes to help make their fuzzy notions into real, saleable projects/objects using 3D printing technology. This book is for novice designers and artists who own a RepRap-based 3D printer, have fundamental knowledge of its working, and who desire to gain better mastery of the printing process. For the more experienced user, it will provide a handy visual resource, with side-by-side comparisons of the two most popular slicers, Skeinforge and Slic3r. A basic understanding of designing and modeling principles and elementary knowledge of digital modeling would be a plus.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Getting Windows to recognize the controller

This appendix will cover two basic controller designs that are common for RepRap-based printers:

  • Arduino Mega 2560 is based on the ATmega2560 microchip (the older ATmega 1280 may also be used on older machines)
  • Sanguinololu is based on the ATMEGA644P microchip

If this is the first time you have tried to upload some firmware, you'll discover that there is a need to install the drivers that are specific to the controller.

For the Arduino Mega, you'll need to follow these steps:

  1. Plug the board in using the USB connection. Windows will attempt to find a device driver for the board and will most likely fail.
  2. Open Device Manager in your system. Locate the yellow exclamation mark labeled Arduino Mega 2560 under Ports or Other Devices.
  3. Choose the "Browse my computer for driver software" option. Locate the drivers folder in the Arduino folder. Select the drivers folder and then click on Next to install. The Arduino Mega should now be recognized...