Make Magazine Unveils Complete CNC Cupcake How-To Series
Mark de Vinck's cat Chester helps install the X and Y stage
Did you just get your Cupcake CNC in the mail? Is it sitting in your living room, unopened, waiting for your attention? Are you a little nervous about opening it and putting it together?
Have no fear, Make Magazine is here! Mark de Vinck has completed his 13-part series on how to MakerBot. Comments and questions are encouraged and welcomed!
- Part 1: Introduction & background
- Part 2: Unboxing
- Part 3: Electronics
- Part 4: Update & burning the bootloaders
- Part 5: Pulley & enclosure finishing
- Part 6: Building the enclosure
- Part 7: Building the Y-stage and adjusting the Z-stage
- Part 8: Building the X stage
- Part 9: Installing the X & Y stages
- Part 10: Building and installing the Z stage
- Part 11: Building the plastruder & testing
- Part 12: Installing the electronics & software
- Part 13: First print!
Thanks for this excellent series, Mark! All we need now is a how-to on the Thing-o-matic…
| Tagged with | cupcake CNC how-to build, MakerBot build | 2 comments |
2 Comments so far
Charles Shapiro
This series is out of order WRT the instructions on the makerbot wiki. This is probably not bad, but I’m curious about why.
I’m following the ones on the wiki since they seem logical.
Charles Shapiro
Aha. These directions are for the early batches of makerbot kits. Later batches have
a different build order.