Necro-posting here but I’m taking this project on to get it active and operating again.
The plan is to use this machine to stock consumables so we can track how many are being used. This means we would have standard space consumables like safety goggles, side cutters etc for $0 in the machine as well as cause specific consumables that will likely be at cost. This will give us a better handle on how we’re going with keeping these sorts of things in stock.
As of right now I’m debugging how the motors are driven and developing some boards to interface with the motors and the front panels which will all be based around mcp23017 i2c expanders on a common bus.
On Tuesday night I will be installing a new power supply, having removed this terrifying beastie on the past Tuesday.:
I’ll be tracking progress on our Trello publically at https://trello.com/c/zintRe38, if there’s a task you think you can chip in with please hit me up and we’ll see what we can do.