Request for help with Makerbot 3D printers

[Justin Nesselrotte]

Hello,

I'd like to request owners of Makerbot 3D printers to help me debug the makerbot driver. I don't want to enable the driver fully on the site unless I'm sure it works. If you'd like to help out, please post a comment here, or shoot me an email. I'd like to support up to the Makerbot 2X printers, since the 5th generation aren't open source enough for me to know how to drive them just yet.

Thank you for your support,

Justin Nesselrotte

[Abdenour Saaid]

Hi Justine, i have a few makerbot 2 machines and i will be very happy to do some testing for you.

[Justin Nesselrotte]

The replicator 2?

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[Abdenour Saaid]

Yes Justine the replicator 2 i have few of them in our fablab, and i have been waiting for a year now for a driver to test them with botqueue. Let me know what to do,

[Justin Nesselrotte]

Right now, I'm working on the driver to get it to communicate. I should have a prototype after this weekend, but it may be next weekend. I'll reply back when I've got it ready to test.

[Abdenour Saaid]

Thanks Justine, please do.

[Justin Nesselrotte]

No problem at all, thank you so much for your offer! It's Justin, by the way. I probably put the wrong thing in another email. I use the Swype keypad on my phone, and it doesn't always work the way I want it to.

[Thomas MOyer]

I have a makerbot 2x. How can I be of service?

[Justin Nesselrotte]

Hmm. Something that would be of service to me is your general workflow. How do you manage configurations? Is there a certain file type that you can export to? Right now I'm looking at the MakerBot conveyor driver, but I'd like to be more certain specifically about the replicator 2X.

This week is going to be incredibly busy, but hopefully I'll be able to work on it early next week. I'm changing the way drivers work which should make implementing conveyor easier.

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[Justin Nesselrotte]

I just added the beginnings of Makerbot support to the main site. You'll need to make sure you run "git pull" on your client to get the latest driver. Another very important thing to note is that the Makerbot driver cannot slice a 3d model yet, and it doesn't even check if it should, which means if you give it a 3d model, but tell it to slice with slic3r, it will, and the driver will choke on it.

This means you have to submit either an .s3g or .x3g for your printer. I tested the original driver on a Replicator 2, but I reworked a couple of things, and hopefully fixed some bugs. Please try it out, and let me know. As always, submit any bugs to the issue tracker for the client or the server depending on where you find the bug.

Thank you very much for your patience and help,

Justin Nesselrotte

[James Armstrong]

Has anyone got Botqueue to work with Makerbots / clones using Sailfish? I was finally able to install the latest files on a RaspberryPi and got an error about should be using genuine Makerbot python driver so I found an old github for that and got it to install and the errors went away but now when I try and print a job it shows task taken, goes up to 100% then back to 0% (files transferred then print status percent?). After that we see Botqueue and %-- on the LCD but nothing happens after that. The percent got up to 0.03% after a few minutes but the printer never homed or started heating up. This was using an X3G file so nothing was sliced on the cloud. I didn't have an easy way at the time (and it was getting late) to try and copy the makerbot python .egg files over and try using them instead of the older / abandoned github.

Any thoughts? I really hate the way the makerbot / sailfish protocol doesn't consume gcode but I know it was for performance and quality reasons. 

[Justin Nesselrotte]

Oh yeah, I think I accidentally introduced a glitch in that class as I don't have one to test with. Could you please upload your info.log? That file can be located by running "bumblebee log" if you installed bqclient through pip.

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[James Armstrong]

Here ya go. I looked at it briefly and saw some packet errors / unexpected lengths.

[Camilo Tapia]

Hi

I installed BotQueue + Makerbot pyserial today to test it with my Replicator clone (Duplicator 4, Sailfish 7.7) and got the same results. It goes up to 0.03% but nothing happens on the printer. If you need any help testing a new version I happy te help out.

[James Armstrong]

I never got a response after posting the log file. Hoping to hear something.

[Camilo Tapia]

Hi

If you like, I could try to help you find the error. I'm not the best python developer (more javascript, nodejs etc than python, but lots of experience) but if you point me to where you suspect the error might be I could try at least.

I'm very eager to get BotQueue working with a Makerbot clone, so if I can do anything to help out along the way, Im happy to do it.

Cheers

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 9:11:00 PM UTC+1, Justin Nesselrotte wrote:

[Justin Nesselrotte]

Hey everyone, just thought I'd let you know that I got a chance to work with a makerbot s3g based printer and fixed the support for it. Those changes will hopefully be going out within a week from today.

Sorry about the delay!