For all of those that salivated over the Simpson deltabot at the NY Makerfaire,

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For all of those that salivated over the Simpson deltabot at the NY Makerfaire, GUS Simpson was just released by @Nicholas_Seward early this morning:

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And what about the firmware? Is that located anywhere?

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@ThantiK No firmware yet. Just a preprocessor. I forgot to upload it. It should be up later today.

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Great! How much of plastic is required and what’s the print time of the complete set?

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@Nicholas_Seward : Yes, a couple questions about the parts: how much plastic will it take (roughly) and what printer settings do you recommend for them? Wally was 0.3mm layer height and 15% infill with PLA. What is Simpson?

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@Shane_Graber @Richard_Marko last I checked it is almost the same as Wally. I use the same settings for both. (Wally is under 1kg but not by much.)

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Yeah, one messed up print on Wally and you’ll easily go over 1kg given the size of the parts! According to my sliced files, Wally took ~830 grams of PLA, and that’s with no print failures during a run.

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@Nicholas_Seward : can you let us know how many of each part to print? If so, I can add renders to the RepRap Wiki for Simpson, like I did for Wally: http://reprap.org/wiki/Wally#Printed_Parts

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@Shane_Graber 3 of the shoulders, motor arms, slave arms, eccentric stops, and plastic washers. 1 of everything else. Thanks!

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@Nicholas_Seward : Awesome! I know what I’ll be updating tonight. :slight_smile:

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@Shane_Graber 2 things. We should start a new GUS Simpson wiki page. Also, I used my reorient script so I am not sure if it messes with the cirality of the triangles. Let me know if anything looks off.

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@Nicholas_Seward : the following part need re-oriented: “hub bottom.stl” Other than that, they all look good.

Question: parts starting with an underscore should NOT be printed, correct? Also, there’s a number of M-series screws, nuts, and washers that do NOT have a beginning underscore to their name in the STL directory.

Also there’s things like “_ARM BLANK.stl” and “_GEAR.stl” and assuming the underscore means to NOT print these, are they supposed to be printed or not?

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@Shane_Graber You are right. Anything starting with a M or a “_” should not be printed. I will fix the hub bottom.

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@Nicholas_Seward I assume 3 pulley.stl’s as well?

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@Shane_Graber Correct.

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@Nicholas_Seward Look this over and let me know if the numbers are correct: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19570820/GUS%20Simpson/GUS%20Simpson.xls

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@Shane_Graber looks great. It really is a small list of parts. Too bad they are so big.

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dumb question, is there any pic of the GUS?, cant find any.

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@Nicolas_Arias http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGTe1G2Gqs http://ConceptFORGE.org

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oh, messed up the names, i thought that GUS simpson was different from the simpson.

SEXTUPTEROn looks amazing!
thanks!