Sunday, September 13, 2009

Into pieces

Today I found time to pull it into more pieces. No going back now.

This is the printing rail: It slides on an aluminum pipe, driven by a motor with two leads. Probably pulse modulated then. Positioning information/motion control is provided by a BPW encoder strip.

This is the underside of the printer:

And this is the brain: Paper is driven again using a two-lead motor. Motion/position control is provided by BPW wheel and I'll probably use it at my end application. I'm going to cover up the cartridge/printing heads with some tape to prevent them from drying up. It'll probably be a month or more before I can put life back into it.

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