MakerBot 3D-PO

Our MakerBot is named 3D-PO and is a bog standard MakerBot 'Batch 5' Model. We print things.

Printing with 3D-PO

Each MakerBot is a bit diffent, since they are hand assembled. This is a how to for our specific MakerBot

First time printers

1) Download 007 version of ReplicatorG from : http://code.google.com/p/replicatorg/downloads/list 2) Unzip or unpack the package 3) If you have not used a USB FTDI cable before (or don't know what one is) you need to install drivers for them. Go into the ReplicatorG/Drivers folder, and install the right driver (Intel or PPC, be careful) for an FTDI cable (a USB cable that connects to embeded devices, like MakerBot).

Software

MakerBot specific: ReplicatorG - The MakerBot's IDE Skeinforge - Converts STL to ReplicatorG sketch (I think). 3D Any 3D Rendering software that can export to .stl will work Blender is a good Open Source/Cross Platform 3d app.

Setting up Your Environment

Skeinforge setup Linux (Dependencies are beyond the scope of this doc) Download Skeinforge from the link above, and untar where you'd like.

tar -xzvf skeinforge-0005.tar.gz

Get "good_skeinforge" from jmil (We aren't sure how to go about this yet) Get start.txt and end.txt, and place them in your skeinforge/skeinforge_tools/ directory export your model to .stl run skeinforge

python skeinforge.py 

you should see something like this in console if it's working:

File /home/fynflood/testcube.stl is being chain exported.

OSX