That's all for now!

[johnoly99]

Just a quick one-liner

[theverant]

How mysterious.

[ApacheXMD]

New printer? New cnc machine?

[geneb]

Knowing that bunch, it's a new de-feathering machine for chickens or something.

g.

[theverant]

Knowing that bunch, it's a new de-feathering machine for chickens or something.

g.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

[geneb]

Sure. Can I have your car too?

g.

[jetpad]

My guess is another (larger) delta printer and the 680 stands for the the mm of probably its height. That would put it at about double the vertical size of the Max. Maybe XD is for "X-large Delta".

[geneb]

From the photo I saw this morning, it's actually a MUCH smaller delta.

g.

[JohnStack]

From the photo I saw this morning, it's actually a MUCH smaller delta.

g.

X-delta, 6 x 6 x 8? Did you say $499?

[Eaglezsoar]

X-Delta - $680 ??

[lordbinky]

Damn, I was crossing my fingers for a new laser cut sandwich.

[jetpad]

From the photo I saw this morning, it's actually a MUCH smaller delta.

g.

A smaller delta would be even better. At this point, it takes too long to print something that fills up the volume of the Max. Maybe 680 is the build volume in inches.

[johnoly99]

Ok guys, here it is. It's now named ORION, rather than XD680, thanks to Guanu on #reprap IRC The 680 stood for the ability to print a 6" square 8" tall (it has an 8" diameter build surface overall though)

We are going to start off with pre-assembled ARP (almost-ready-to-print) machines, and after we are up and running well with the assembly process, we will look at offering them in the kit form as well. Don't want to not offer a kit, but we think it'd be best to nail down the assembly process first on these, and then roll out the kit version.

Here's some pics, in case you didn't come to MakerFaire Detroit to see it!

[theverant]

Ok guys, here it is. It's now named ORION, rather than XD680, thanks to Guanu on #reprap IRC The 680 stood for the ability to print a 6" square 8" tall (it has an 8" diameter build surface overall though)

We are going to start off with pre-assembled ARP (almost-ready-to-print) machines, and after we are up and running well with the assembly process, we will look at offering them in the kit form as well. Don't want to not offer a kit, but we think it'd be best to nail down the assembly process first on these, and then roll out the kit version.

Nice! Price?

[johnoly99]

Not 100% sure yet on the price, but prob. be right around $1500. It uses the same electronics, parts/pieces as the MAX, just less melamine parts and tslot

[hobbit666]

Going to make it open hardware?

[kbob]

Will you offer variants with other countries' flags? A Canadian model would be nice...

[JohnStack]

Yay! I guessed right!!!

Orion is a great name. Close to Onion. Just kidding.

Glad you're taking the built route first. I think that's wise. Ship 50 or so and you'll know exactly what you're going to change....

[johnoly99]

LOL, yes, different countries flags will be a drop-down option. (hehe).

And yes, of COURSE it will be open-hardware, https://github.com/seemecnc/Orion Just havn't finished the files yet. I'll push the wanky firmware up there if you want? We're still waiting on the new heated bed, injection mold for the arms, and then beating it up good, but oh man, the smaller size seems to lend itself to MUCH better protability, duh!

[Nylocke]

I was at Detroit, the ORION looks awesome! The compactness of the electronics are stupid small, when are you going to make a heated bed for it? Like I said in Detroit, I'm waiting for your guy's bed to try and put on my Rostock Mini....

[Flateric]

Really neato looking machine.

(My only tiny tiny critic would be, magnetic arms would have been a obvious choice at this point I would have imagined, just so much easier to build, calibrate, maintain, switch out hotends, be really spiffy)

[theverant]

Really neato looking machine.

(My only tiny tiny critic would be, magnetic arms would have been a obvious choice at this point I would have imagined, just so much easier to build, calibrate, maintain, switch out hotends, be really spiffy)

Yeah, I definitely have to second this. No reason to go with the old arms since the carbon fibre ones have proven to be such an upgrade.

[CJGerard]

Really neato looking machine.

(My only tiny tiny critic would be, magnetic arms would have been a obvious choice at this point I would have imagined, just so much easier to build, calibrate, maintain, switch out hotends, be really spiffy)

Yeah, I definitely have to second this. No reason to go with the old arms since the carbon fibre ones have proven to be such an upgrade.

Im already working on my set of magnetic arms and i haven't got the first print done yet. I just keep finding things i can tweek

[626Pilot]

Really neato looking machine.

(My only tiny tiny critic would be, magnetic arms would have been a obvious choice at this point I would have imagined, just so much easier to build, calibrate, maintain, switch out hotends, be really spiffy)

I was surprised they went with the old mechanism. I wonder if they've done anything with the extrusions, how they're braced etc. I got mine all dialed in, moved it to another table, moved it back... and it was out of alignment! I was wondering if we'd see some incremental improvements in things like that, which we could maybe steal and implement on our Maxes.

[johnoly99]

We're using a 'similar' arm design, but eliminates ALL of the sanding, and the shorter, more rigid arms, have a beefier side to them, making them even stiffer yet. There won't be any sanding, as the inner tabs of the platform and carriage are gone, and the ujoints will be 'sprung' outwards against the outer tabs, consistent all around. As for the t slot bracing, the machine overall is about 2' shorter. Theres a lot less moment to twist and tweak the arms in the first place. But, I've hauled two or more of the Rostock MAX's from coast to coast this year, and never really re-calibrated them at all? Just plugged them in and printed 'stuff', now, not always the prettiest 'stuff' but only minor tweaks to the z height.

Which, btw,

Do you guys know you can jog the hotend down to the table, and when you're satisfied with the z, send M251 S2 in the gcode, and that will auto-update your z height setting and store it to the eeprom in the firmware??? if not, you should try it!