MakerBot Industries

We’ve just become aware that there’s a bug in some of the default settings in the last release of ReplicatorG.  The nozzle temperatures are set way too high on certain profiles.  Please avoid using any Thing-O-Matic profile with Skeinforge 0006 (default) in ReplicatorG 22.  Skeinforge 35 is safe, so if you’re skeining for Thing-O-Matics, please select Skeinforge 35 in the GCode menu.  (This is the recommendation in the docs.)  All profiles for Cupcakes are okay.

There will be a new release of ReplicatorG tomorrow afternoon that corrects this issue.  Until then, use the Skeinforge 35 if you’re generating gcode for Thing-O-Matics, or you may end up with a sad extruder, like a certain Mr. Pax:

Napkin sketch of NEMA17 mount

Remember the days of the napkin sketch?  Those were the days when an idea could really only be initially expressed with a pen and piece of paper.  Yeah, those days are gone.  If you’ve got a modicum of design skill and an idea, you can now just hand your idea to someone else.

The napkin sketch above was drawn over dinner some 11 hours after the physical object it describes popped into existence.