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Michael Tuttle's SUPER tall bot!
MakerBot operator Michael Tuttle sent in some photos of his seriously pimped Cupcake. He’s more than doubled vertical build height of the Liberty Prototype tall printer!1
Anyways, Just wanted to show you my makerbot mod. it has a ~26″ Z build area and I modified it to two Z stage motors to help with the mass of the new rods. I also put a heatsink on the H-bridge to help with the added load.
As you can see I printed the wine class from thingiverse. It was actually my first print on the machine, it hasnt even been calibrated yet! Its amazing! You can even see the hex nuts not even tightened on the z rods. My next upgrade will be the step extruder and the 2.4 motherboard.
Let’s not forget the sweet TRON themed clear acrylic case! 2 Michael, please, please, please go for the tallest print hall of fame record! Way to go Michael!
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3 Comments so far
Jetguy
I guess I didn’t go tall enough with the tall T-O-M mod?
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7063
170 milimeters or 6.69291339 inches build height via the mod.
I guess I need to break the current height record of 154 mm this weekend.
JJ
Don’t the rules for the HOF include ‘Must be a MBI Numbered robot’?
MakerBlock
@JJ: Nope! Here’s the first two rules:
# You must print your model on an authentic MakerBot
# Modifications to your machine are encouraged, but not required.
Michael Tuttle has a legit Makerbot. It’s been SO modified that little remains of it other than the XY carriage. But, somewhere inside that tall tall robot beats the living heart of a true MakerBot.