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Subject: Re: [MakerBot] Re: Got my MakerBot Replicator 2 and it's not working
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On 16 Nov 2012 , at 7:08 PM, Steve wrote:

> 
> dnewman 
> 
> 
> Thanks again for sharing your insights, they are very helpful. 
> 
> Did you learn all this through the school of hard knocks, or are there 
> places with things I should be reading
> about 3D printing and Makerbots other than the MakerBot web site/Wiki, this 
> group, the Skeinforge and ReplicatorG
> web pages?

I started with a Cupcake CNC back in 2010 (but largely kept my mouth
shut back then as I was pretty busy helping with the development of the
Eggbot and some other projects).  So, I go back a moderate ways with this stuff
but not as far back as others on this list (who remember the first few
batches of Cupcakes and the very early Skeinforge, RepG, and other
softwares people were wrestling with and rapidly improving).

So, definitely the school of hard knocks.

Unfortunately, a lot of the docs on the makerbot wiki are somewhat dated.  E.g.,

  http://wiki.makerbot.com/thingomatic-doc:about-timing-belts

And, for whatever reason, there's not a lot of more up-to-date docs on calibrating
Rep 1 and 2's.  (I keep on meaning to write some stuff up, but Sailfish keeps me
pretty busy as is.)

Dan