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The ol Hackimaker is being rebuilt! I'm short an electronics board and some motors as of now, so the build will kinda mozy along. I've got some coolio stuff going into it this time though, and all that I've learned from the original build and my MAX build will help to make it a better printer than it ever was previously.

Those of you who are thinking "Whats a Hackimaker?" its pretty much just an Ultimaker Original that was built from scratch with some design modifications. I sourced all the parts from different online suppliers, but its not an exact clone of a "real Ultimaker". I'll show off some of the design changes I've done/chosen in some later posts.

I know this is a heavily delta based forum, but a little bit of Parallel Kinematics never hurt anyone At least its not a Makerbutt.

For now I'll leave you with some pictures of a laser:

Paint it please!
And show your designs mods if you can.

Where did you get your hands on a wood burning laser?

Its a friend's laser. Thats a bit of an old picture when I originally cut the parts out.

The Ultimaker is a pretty easy printer to build (at least the frame and stuff) so I probably won't have a huge amount of build pictures. I will definitely have plenty of print pictures though.
The frame has some customness to it. Its taller than the regular Ultimaker. Its actually not to get additional Z height (though if I was thinking a bit more that could've been something I could've done). I have it so I can fit a RAMPS (while its still a shield like the Ultimaker Electronics, the fuses take up more "height" on the RAMPS), beefier PSU, and a larger stepper on the Z axis. I have hole patterns for RAMPS, RAMBo, the Ultimaker electronics, and PSUs like this http://www.youyipower.com/blog/files/20 ... supply.jpg.
The main bit that I've had to design from scratch was a nut holder. You can buy a nut similar to the one on the Ultimaker Original from aliexpress or something like that, but I'm hesitant to buy something for a place as sketchy as that, so instead I got one of the 8mm ACME leadscrews from OpenBuilds and one of the nuts to go with it and designed a block for it to fit into. Its hard to see in the picture (black filament + nut) but it works. I have some stuff to tweak on the design, and I may have to reposition things (not entirely sure if the nut is positioned in the right spot), but it seems like it will work well when I get it all sorted out.
Painting wise, I'm a fan of the bare birch look. I might stain it (I have plenty of extra pieces that I can run tests on) or something though.

Thanks for the pictures, it looks great!

I've made a bit of progress. I was able to finish the frame assembly yesterday.
I had to make some changes to the Z axis nut holder, it was about 3 or 4mm out of alignment. It works well and I'm excited to use the ACME screw this time around (last time it was assembled it had a generic 8mm threaded rod).
The one thing I've always been jealous of with the stock Ultimakers is the cable ducts that are integrated into the frame. Its just some nylon fabric, so I figured it should be easy enough to make it. I found nylon flag material at my local fabric store, drew the cable ducts in AutoCAD, and cut them out on the 40 Watt laser at my Makerspace yesterday. They look awesome and they are going to work great.
I've progressed to installing the axis rods, probably the most boring part of assembly (I've done it probably 15 times in the past).
And the old V5 E3D is back in action. I cleaned it up significantly (it was all covered in burnt plastic and gunk)

I might be able to get a RAMBo for free, and I can definitely get another V5 for free so I might try some sort of dual extrusion with this one too. I think it'd be cool to design a tilt extruder with a servo or something "simple" to combat problems that dual setups often face.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEqTgVO4Pj4[/youtube]

Mike, your hackimaker rebuild looks great, it reminds me of the x/y plotters from my Navy days
but they did not 3D print. Very good job, AS USUAL!

Thanks

Unfortunately the print failed half way through, the Makerspace is very prone to ESD this time of the year and the printer power cycled half way through.

I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with it yet, I'm thinking it may become my main PLA/Nylon printer. It is VERY fast. Accel Is at 3000 and the travel moves are at 300mm/sec. I can probably print a bit faster than I was, but it is a first print.

I'll post some more pics in the future of upgrades. I also have pending pictures to here too

Nylocke wrote:Thanks

Unfortunately the print failed half way through, the Makerspace is very prone to ESD this time of the year and the printer power cycled half way through.

I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with it yet, I'm thinking it may become my main PLA/Nylon printer. It is VERY fast. Accel Is at 3000 and the travel moves are at 300mm/sec. I can probably print a bit faster than I was, but it is a first print.

I'll post some more pics in the future of upgrades. I also have pending pictures to here too

Too bad the Makerspace can't afford some battery backup UPS boxes, may prevent the ESD or whatever is going on with the electrical.
Nice to have but everything costs money as you well know. I don't see a thing wrong with using it as your main printer, everything does
not have to be a delta. (I have 3 deltas and 1 cartesian). The fact that you brought it back to life is something you should be proud of.