{"id":122,"date":"2009-12-25T23:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T04:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=122"},"modified":"2009-12-29T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T17:49:11","slug":"heated-al-print-platforms-for-the-makerbot-cupcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Heated Al Print Platforms for the MakerBot Cupcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/store\/\">store<\/a>:  a nichrome kit option for heating the Al print platform and international shipping options.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I set it up: using Kapton tape, I attached a loop of nichrome wire to the underside of the platform.  I also put the thermistor in an &#8220;average&#8221; spot away from the wire:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/16466642@N00\/4213507048\" title=\"View 'heated makerbot platform' on Flickr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"75\" alt=\"heated makerbot platform\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2693\/4213507048_4658a9f292_s.jpg\" height=\"75\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big problem here is that the harness is not attached, so there&#8217;s no strain relief for where the wires are soldered to the thermistor and nichrome.  Industrial hot glue doesn&#8217;t work, so I&#8217;m going to give heat-resistant epoxy a try next.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:  Oops, completely forgot about how to hook it up!   I&#8217;m using the A6 pin on the extruder, basically copying what <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasantsoftware.com\/developer\/3d\/2009\/11\/12\/canned-heat\/\">Eberhard documented on his blog<\/a>.  For software, you&#8217;ll need to download and build the latest ReplicatorG and firmware from the <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/makerbot\">makerbot github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]makerbot[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New in the store: a nichrome kit option for heating the Al print platform and international shipping options. Here&#8217;s how I set it up: using Kapton tape, I attached a loop of nichrome wire to the underside of the platform. I also put the thermistor in an &#8220;average&#8221; spot away from the wire: The big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-all-about-the-makerbot-cupcake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}