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Hello and welcome. I (We?) indeed seem to be working on the same thing as you are. If you want to do the measurements, I would be extremely grateful. I am not yet at a point where I have give up with my experiments here, but getting a proper readout from an original HP45 printer would save me a huge...

That comment made me both chuckle and think. I was not planning on it.

I think I might just add additional safety in the arms so they can also release the locking mechanisms. With my arms free I can properly release all other mechanisms.

Game plan for this weekend. I want to take 2 steps back and get some initial data on the printhead. Last weekend I was basically banging rocks together. I connected everything in the hope that it would work. This weekend I am trying to get some data on the printhead. There are 2 things I want to kno...

That is a lot of information to take in. Initially (at digitalshadow's first post today) I was a bit skeptical about the influence of temperature, but I recon it makes sense now. I do not know if it is the reason why my current setup does not work yet, but it is most definitely a good thing to keep ...

Keeping busy I see. How did the powder jam the pulleys. Doe it somehow clump together?

Sadly, I do not own a HP45 printer. It would have made my life a lot easier. I might still get one if I can if the inkjet tests stays fruitless. The main issue is that the HP45 is only still used in bigger plotter printers. I will see if there is a printer that is not too expensive that can hold a H...

Hacking report, day 1 2016-02-13 12.14.jpg 2016-02-13 15.59.jpg No success getting any ink so far. Here is what I have done today. First off I started with measuring the printhead. It is common ground and I was hoping that all grounds were internally connected. My hope was right. I found all ground ...

A short first installment into what I have been doing the a lot for the past 3 months. I have been saying I am busy quite a lot on this forum, with other projects (HP45 hacking, Tesseract) running at snails pace. This is what I have been working on. I reveal: The T60 power armor from Fallout 4. FOPA...

So if I understand this right, the FIFO is only there to do smoothing. It is still assumed that the micro can mostly handle the moving the motors, reading the SD and triggering the nozzles, but the FIFO is in place to handle smaller gaps in reading. Maybe the on board RAM would already be enough, bu...

I am really curious to hear how it will handle different types of powders. In my design considerations I never considered a vortex because I was under the presumption that vortexes cannot handle powders as fine as gypsum, but if they can handle finer powders I can use them in future designs.