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                    <div class="post"><a href="/blog/post/63/" class="title"><h2>A Quick "I'm Not Dead" Update</h2></a>
                    <div class="postinfo">By Pat on Apr 21st 2010</div>

                    <div class="itemcontent"><p>No, I'm not dead, classes have just been kicking my ass lately and I've been getting very little done. My progress hasn't been helped by the fact that any time I have spent on it has been a futile attempt to get the extruder to talk to the motherboard. If you've had this problem in the past why not come over to <a href="http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?13,43375">my thread</a> and help me out.</p>
                    <p>I have gotten a few things done, I designed <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2174">a new mounting plate</a> for the Tech Zone Remix electronics. I guess that's about it, now back to my DiffEQ homework.</p>
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                    <div class="postinfo">Tags: <a href='/blog/tags/mendel'>mendel</a> <a href='/blog/tags/project:reprap'>project:reprap</a> </div></div>

                    <div class="post"><a href="/blog/post/57/" class="title"><h2>More Fun</h2></a>
                    <div class="postinfo">By Pat on Mar 5th 2010</div>
                        <div class="itemcontent"><p>See I told you there would be more fun.</p>
                            <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/azdle/4409302681/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4409302681_022ee0fab5.jpg" /></a></p>
                            <p>It's finally starting to look like a RepRap. Needless to say, I'm super excited.</p>
                            <p>There have been a few issues. First, the fender (or mudguard) washers that we ordered weren't big enough to hold the belts on the bearings, they were actually slightly smaller than the bearings. I solved this by simply cutting some out on the laser cutter using a scrap piece of 1/8" acrylic. I don't know if the extra space that they added will make a difference, but I can't find any reason that they should.</p>
                            <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/azdle/4409301019/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4409301019_2ebc4749b2.jpg" /></a></p>
                            <p>The next problem is that the gears won't fit the steppers that we have without filing them down. So, I need to find a way to modify them to fit the steppers or else change the STL files and beg the people who made them for us to make a few more for us.</p>
                            <p>Another problem is, we can't seem to find metric brass threaded rod or even metric brass bolts to make the extruder.</p>

                            <p>Lastly, we don't have our electronics yet so, I have a feeling that I'm going to be staring at a fully built, non-functioning RepRap for awhile.</p>
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