frame build

After spending the entire day yesterday in the workshop this is what I came up with.

I got so carried away with the build that I completely forgot that I 'am supposed to take pictures 

during the build process.

Well this is what I did.

I used 30 mm square tubing for the frame cut to 420 mm lengths for the sides and 400 mm for the height.

in the corners I mounted four 40x40x10 pieces of mild steel with 20 mm inner diameter.

The Z axis will be moved by four M12 threaded rods.

I placed two guide plates on the inner sides with holes drilled and tapped for M6 bolts.

These will be used to adjust the threaded rod.

two roller bearing will hold the threaded in place and allow it to move freely. 

The X- Y-axis are mounted on linear roller bearings.

I will still be able to have a printable area of 214x214 when all is done

I ordered an extruder from a local vendor I found online will be getting it in the next few days.

Ok so I have assembled my Gen7 Board.

I am still checking all the tracks to make sure that there are no short circuits.

I still need to get the boot loader onto the 1284 before I can use the board.

Spoke to a local vendor he is more that willing to load the boot loader onto the chip and 

ship it to me. 

If I don't manage to load the boot Loader this weekend I will  take this course of action.

I've received all the parts and assembled my Gen7 board. I've spend the last few days trying to figure out how to load the boot loader on an atmega1284p-pu chip. All the tutorials I have found online is for the atmega 644. I downloaded the data sheet for the 1284 and it seems that all the pins on the two chips has the same functions. so the upload of the boot loader will be done in the same manner as the tutorials for the 644?

The next step is to find the proper boot loader: If I understand all the blogs and tutorials correctly the boot loader for the Sanguino should work on the Gen7 board.

The next crucial step is to get the proper boot loader for the crystal you are using, if 16 MHz crystal is used on the bread board when you load the boot loader you must use the 16 MHz boot loader file.

Next you must load the actual firmware to the chip, Teacup or what ever. This is done via the Arduino IDE.

So this is all theory will try to get the board to work on the week end.