Very simple stage to assemble. Probably took a lot less time than the wiki suggested.
Now it is simple to see what the completed cupcake will look like.
Some images:
This is the parts for the body laid out
The wood are stacked on each other
Completed assembly (and plastics in the back)
Tips for others:
The only problem I ran into (apart for the screw) was that when I made sure there was 1 mm clearance between the drive pulley and the motor the timing belt was not level with neither the Y-stage nor the idler pulley. I moved the drive pulley several mm’s up until it was level with the rest.
That was not a major problem as it was easy to reposition it, but it was time consuming to get the drive pulley to be 1 mm above the motor.
The parts laid out:
The parts for the X-Stage laid out.
The big screw is not the right one, the small image is with the right screw (before it was cut down to size)
Some construction images:
The drive pulley on the motor shaft.
And the completed assembly:
This part was very simple and straight forward.
The only two problems I ran into while making the Y-stage was
Tips for other builders:
Some images from the process:
All parts laid out before:
The flanged bearings are the white "tubes with a lip on"
Construction images:
Final result:
Got my MakerBot in the mail.
It is made in batch XVI (hint the batch number is etched into the wooden parts, unlike the serial number it is not printed on a label)
Decided I should name it Fermat (in honor of Pierre de Fermat)
Also stared reading the build instructions and consider if I should paint it or not … the decision is to not paint it for now, maybe try to give it some protective lacquerer later on (not a optimal plan – if you know you want to paint your – do it before starting assembly).
Important: If you have gotten a kit that includes a power supply. Make sure you verify that it is set for the correct operating voltage – if not you will release the magical blue smoke from it.
All parts of the MakerBot (deluxe kit, no plastics plus a heated build platform and a extra Plastruder MK 5 gear upgrade kit) laid out on my bed:
Sometimes it is nice to send a log or some other file as a email to someone (or a part of a file)
cat myfile.txt | mail -s 'SUBJECT' example@mail.com; |
Change myfile.txt, SUBJECT and example@mail.com to something useful.
It is also possible to send the output of a command to someone
ps -ef|mail -s 'SUBJET' example@mail.com; |
Executing a query quickly from the console is nice to be able to do (without having to enter the MySQL console).
user@server:~$ mysql -uUSERNAME -p DATABASENAME --execute "REPAIR TABLE position"; |
Replace USERNAME and DATABASENAME with your vars
mysql -uUSERNAME -p DATABASENAME --execute "SELECT * FROM test" > test.sql; |
Replace USERNAME and DATABASENAME with your vars
mysql -uUSERNAME -p DATABASENAME --execute "SELECT * FROM test" | mail -s 'SUBJECT' example@mail.com |
Replace USERNAME, DATABASENAME , SUBJECT and example@mail.com with your vars
For testing I like to keep older versions of Internet Explorer installed, here are some notes on how to disable the updating of Internet Explorer to newer versions.
I only recommend doing this on a machine that should keep Internet Explorer 6 in order to do development testing.
The values mean the following:
note This article is updated as new versions are released.
If you need to do this on several computers then you can download Toolkits to do this from Microsoft (warning: read the instructions and verify that you ran it correctly on the first computer you run it on):
Setting a default charset using .htaccess is a simple thing to do
However sometimes there is a need to unset default charset as well (for instance if the AddDefaultCharset is set in the apache config and this is causing problems).
This is very easy to do just edit the .htaccess file and add a line that says
AddDefaultCharset OFF |
Finding the serial number of a hard drive on a Linux console (as root) is simple with the right tool.
The right tool in this case is hdparm (using the -i option).
-i will query the device directly for the details.
Example:
themachine:/proc# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=ST31500341AS , FwRev=CC1H , SerialNo= 9VS21ZXM Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16? CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=18446744072344861488 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode |
Using the option -I instead gives even more information:
themachine:/proc# hdparm -I /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST31500341AS Serial Number: 9VS21ZXM Firmware Revision: CC1H Transport: Serial Standards: Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029) Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 2930277168 device size with M = 1024*1024: 1430799 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 1500301 MBytes (1500 GB) Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Queue depth: 32 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = ? Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 0 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * Host Protected Area feature set * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE SET_MAX security extension * Automatic Acoustic Management feature set * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set * WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT * 64-bit World wide name Write-Read-Verify feature set * WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command * {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * SATA-II signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Native Command Queueing (NCQ) * Phy event counters Device-initiated interface power management * Software settings preservation * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set * SCT Long Sector Access (AC1) * SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2) * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3) * SCT Features Control (AC4) * SCT Data Tables (AC5) unknown 206[12] (vendor specific) Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count supported: enhanced erase 240min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 240min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c50014ec1f60 NAA : 5 IEEE OUI : c50 Unique ID : 014ec1f60 Checksum: correct |
To get a html page to display UTF-8 encoded text correctly (without setting a default charset) simply add the following to the head of the html page.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> |