EggBot Pro User Guide
The Original Egg-Bot
by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Rev A, August 2014
Страница 1: ...EggBot Pro User Guide The Original Egg Bot by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Rev A August 2014...
Страница 2: ...y showed off at that year s Maker Faire Brian an embedded systems engineer created the EggBotBoard lat er EiBotBoard which connects the eggbot to the computer over USB Ben was then a recent Stanford c...
Страница 3: ...drivers 5 64 3 32 6 Button socket cap screw 8 32 3 8 7 Rubber washer 8 10 32 5 8 cap screw w washer Let s also look at what the different parts of the machine are called We ll be refer ring to these...
Страница 4: ...t motor Distal pen arm Pen arm bracket Proximal pen arm Pen motor support Draw knob Ball bearings EBB driver board 1 2 EggBot anatomy continued EggBot anatomy front view EggBot anatomy rear view Pen h...
Страница 5: ...EggBot from within Inkscape There is also a set of EggBot example files including a template that you may wish to download Once installed the EggBot software may be found in the Extensions Eggbot sub...
Страница 6: ...e to test the new tension level A B C D E 3 Open Eggbot Control and click through to the Set up tab B There enter the factory calibration values for the EggBot Pro which are good starting points 65 fo...
Страница 7: ...ards the headstock There is some play in the slot so sight from the tailstock to the headstock D and correct the tailstock angle if neces sary With the tailstock in position you can now insert the obj...
Страница 8: ...motor quick release To change the vertical position of the pen motor 1 Note the pen motor support horizontal position e g the 3 8 value from 4 3 2 Open the pen motor quick release 3 Loosen the vertica...
Страница 9: ...m the tailstock end the tip of the pen should point directly down towards the center line when the pen is down If necessary you can move the pen arm towards or away from the pen motor by loosening the...
Страница 10: ...n the online documentation walks through this process There are many methods for creating filled solid areas that will print well Use the Hatch fill extension under the Eggbot Contributed extension me...
Страница 11: ...cal adjustment is still available but is now shifted so that it does not start at and cannot get to spherical but rather at egg shaped When using the ex tended range it is usually also necessary to re...
Страница 12: ...he 9 V power supply is plugged into a working outlet 7 For reasons of geometry text and graphics may look stretched when drawn on an egg as opposed to on a sphere You may wish to stretch graphics hori...
