Over the weekend, I’ve been working on some quite important features: Safety! The most important being disabling the heaters if anything goes wrong with the thermistor readings. It’s boring, but it’s necessary. Safety features does nothing to improve the…
Most of the Replicapes from the Kickstarter has now been delivered, and people are starting to try it out and getting into configuration. Great, but not for everyone! A lot of people seem to be having trouble with the end…
In December, I made a trip to Shenzhen, the city where “all” electronics is being manufactured. The purpose of the trip was to give an insight into how the Replicape (and Manga Screen) is being manufactured. The video became the…
…ideally with a fold down Manga Screen fitted on top, ready for Intel’s big event Geek So In #10 on December 8. I was inclined to oblige, since they are so heavily invested in open source and trying really hard…
It’s been a while since I worked on the firmware for Manga Screen, but the last couple of days have been spent making a few changes that have been on my list for several months. the most important news: Persistent…
Redeem, the Replicape Daemon, is the “firmware” that accepts g-codes and makes the 3D-printer move. What is special about this firmware is that it is mostly written in a high level language. Python is not the fastest language around, but…
The wait is over, folks! Replicape revision B is now live on Kickstarter! If you are reading this on Thing-printer.com, you probably know about Replicape, and are mostly interested in what’s new with Rev B compared to Rev A! Here…
The last of the beta tester boards for Replicape Revision B were shipped out today! Now comes a couple of weeks of testing for the selected testers followed by a big decision: Are they good enough for the Kickstarter! If…
It’s still summertime and the weather is high, but in the deep valleys of Shenzhen, three companies are hard at work and getting ready for the second batch of Manga Screens! Almost all the backers from the Kickstarter campaign have…
For BeagleBone Black the cape manager has been missing or somewhat broken since 3-odd-8 or something, but with Linux kernel 4.1, it’s back in business (a part of mainline kernel)! That means you no longer have to recompile the whole…