My3dP: power supply

I chose, as power supply for my 3d printer, a common ATX power supply for desktop PCs. The Printrboard has a connector for the power supply’s 12V plug: To turn the power supply on, you need to connect the green wire (PS ON) to a black one (ground). I therefore opened the power supply, cut the…

My3dP: the electronics

The kit I brought from MakerFarm includes the Printrboard as electronic to control your 3d printer: This board, developed for the Printrbot project, has the following features: Atmel AT90USB1286 microcontroller (can run the most famous firmwares like Marlin or Sprinter and manages the USB communication to the PC); 4 Allegro A4982 stepper drivers  (3 axes + the extruder); MOSFET outputs for extruder, heatbed and an optional fan;…

My3dP: the extruder

I’ve just completed the assembly of the extruder for my 3dprinter… MakerFarm’s kit includes the one designed by Greg Frost: at the bottom of the extruder you have to connect the hotend; I’ve already blogged about it in a previous post: extruder and hotend are then mounted on the x-carriage:

XenApp, my book!

Over the past few months, I put all my experience with Citrix XenApp in a book, that has been recently published by Packt Publishing: Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials. I hope this book will be a concrete help for all the system administrators who need to design, implement and optimize a XenApp infrastructure that performs well and can…

MegunoLink

In some blog post, I’ve already show how to receive data from Arduino and display them on a  chart using .Net applications, PHP or JavaScript scripts. Some friends wrote comments suggesting me to try MegunoLink tool and Phil was so kind to offer me a license for the PRO version so here’s my review!