Found a potentially time consuming error in the Assembly Guide.
Maslow should consider removing/changing the photo with the caption “Place the main controller board on top of the router and plug in the four motors” on the Assembling the router — Maslow page as it is assembled incorrectly and should not appear anywhere on the site where it could be potentially used for reference of the device completed to the phase indicated in the text.
The lead screw nuts in this photo are apparently attached to the wrong clamp (the upper) instead of the (lower).
Hopefully this will save others time/confusion and not have to assemble/reassemble multiple times (like I did) after seeing the image and assuming a mistake had been made… uh right?
These screws should not be here:
You said “I’m pretty sure I’m just the slowest horse in this race…”. Actually, if that is true, why do I see your back just going around the turn in front of me? I’m sure I have value here, though, having made a series of ‘original’ mistakes and back-tracked several times to correct.
What it takes in my case is stubbornness , witness my spending a few work sessions getting my z-axis to perform! My favorite expression for my build has become “Finally!” No fault to Bar’s brilliant design and everyone’s almost instantaneous help!
P.S. I hope that cata-naut has an air conditioner for his space suit!
Bar/Roman/Anna have done a great job, for sure. It’s just the growing pains of going from handmaking prototypes to making sure small batches work as expected to sending a few thousand of something out into the world and into a myriad of different environments. That it’s going as well as it is is a testament to the effort they put in on the front-end before the molds even got a whiff of melted plastic.
If they do another iteration, I hope that they make sure to send some kits out to trusted users in different environments to put the machine through more-natural and more-varied testing. Having been fervently observing the forums since I backed the kickstarter, it’s the only thing I really think they could have done to catch some of these issues that wouldn’t have been apparent testing in a semi-controlled environment and always in the same climate. Still, even then there would have plenty that those more-savvy testers would likely power through without noticing.
