{"id":148,"date":"2010-04-24T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-04-25T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:26:10","slug":"more-aluminum-heated-build-platforms-for-the-makerbot-cupcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"More Aluminum Heated Build Platforms for the Makerbot Cupcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More platforms back in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/store\/\">store<\/a> and I dropped the price by $10.  Now you have an option of a plate with no peripheral holes as well as an option for the nicrhome kit.<\/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>This connects using the A6 pin on the extruder, same as other boards, all of which are basically doing 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>More platforms back in the store and I dropped the price by $10. Now you have an option of a plate with no peripheral holes as well as an option for the nicrhome kit. Here&#8217;s how I set it up: using Kapton tape, I attached a loop of nichrome wire to the underside of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-the-makerbot-cupcake","category-metalworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}