Saturday, December 11, 2010

Wandering back and forth

I'm not abandoning this project... I'm just slow. The cartesian portion is more or less complete, but I ran into a snag on the electronics. I was going through the electronics bits I purchased for this project and realized that I made an error when ordering the parts and boards for my stepper motor controllers. I bought 3 of each of the parts lists for the through hole soldering parts and 3 of the surface mount controller boards. So it's all, incompatible. I'm not really sure what to do. I could:

1) I could just buy the appropriate surface mount parts.
2) I could have someone make me a board compatible with the old electronics
3) I could purchase an entirely different set of electronics and move ahead with them