15 Comments so far

• Dave Durant

  February 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm

   

  Wow! That’s a pretty epic Thing to print – congrats!!

   

• Carmiac

  February 8, 2011 at 5:47 pm

   

  Did my eyes fool me, or did I see a stepper motor driving that extruder???

   

• JadeKnight

  February 8, 2011 at 6:38 pm

   

  That does indeed appear to be a stepper driving the MK5. Zoomed into the video at 0:49, and I see 4 wires on the left going into the motor behind the drive gear.

   

• 3defect

  February 8, 2011 at 6:53 pm

   

  Nice video, how did you track the build platform? Mocha?

   

• Dave Durant

  February 8, 2011 at 7:08 pm

   

  The 4 wires coming out of the back sorta gave it away. That and it being a different shape than a DC motor.

  It’s still an epic print and whoever dialed it in and made it through that Thing deserves props..

   

• Stan

  February 8, 2011 at 8:19 pm

   

  I’m very impressed that the thin supports at the top showed up at all. On my Cupcake, those turned into a stringy, blobby mess.

   

• Twotimes

  February 8, 2011 at 9:20 pm

   

  Hey, they forgot to print the back of it!

   

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  February 9, 2011 at 10:13 am

   

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  Matt

  February 9, 2011 at 10:46 am

   

  Heheh. I’ve been enjoying these comments and can’t post regarding certain equipment that may or may not be in use in this vid. I experimented with some manual tracking — picking two points for every frame by hand so it has that nice jello-wy organic feel to it. (I was using a compositor package, not AE+Mocca in this case, though that would have been a great way to do this.) If I had lighted it more brightly and evenly, I could have used Mocca or similar to grab auto points. I’m afraid I had to brute-force the match over many many many hours.

   

• Thaed

  February 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm

   

  I suspect we just got a view of the MK6. Want!

   

• coasterman

  February 9, 2011 at 9:17 pm

   

  Stepper driven MK6! I want one!!
  Very impressive print. And did I see a wide belt? It appears the belt covers the entire platform, unlike on the current ToMs, whose belts appear to be 10mm or so short of what they should be .

   

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• Chooch

  February 10, 2011 at 9:29 pm

   

  Hurray for direct drive stepping!

   

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• Sito

  February 27, 2011 at 8:36 am

   

  Hi guys, especially Matt,
  I tried hard to figure out what music you chose for the soundtrack – no success, yet. Even Shazam shows no results. It’s driving me crazy. Could you, or somebody else, help me, please?
  Sito