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The kit was brilliant!
Everything fitted and instructions where good.
It seems like I had a temporary case of color blindness, since I manage to swith around n.o and n.c wires on the needle pickup limit switch. This produced very strange results when trying to home the Z axis (would home first time, next time it would crash upwards), and trying to set needle height etc was even more fun. Actually took some time to figure out. But hey, now it works.
I also had a problem with my table hole for the camera. Here I misunderstood the instructions, so I ended up with a hole under XY home, resulting in unable to visual home. So I had to cover up parts of the hole again, but I was planing a nice 3d printed frame for it anyway.

After finally getting it all calibrated I ended up playing around with manually picking up parts by clicking in the camera view, and placing them down randomly. Skynet next!

Thanks a lot to JuKu for this amazing kit!

For the record: I used around 12 hours of building this, with no previous experience building this type of thing.
Also I ended up with using high grade cat 6 shielded cables for everything (since I had a roll of it), seems to work flawlessly.
(The TinyG and psu is mounted under the table, so that I can use the table space).


Today let's see if I can make it do something productive with it

Hello ravng

thanks for this report! 12 hours is not that bad for such a usefull machine!

Rainer
PS
I can not fully open your picture. Tried different ways to open it. I only manage to see the upper 20%. Is this a problem of my computer only?

ravng wrote: Also I ended up with using high grade cat 6 shielded cables for everything (since I had a roll of it), seems to work flawlessly.

I have been investigating using Cat 5/6 STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) as well. Did you make sure to use two Cat6 wires for each motor-wire? A single Cat6 wire is thinner than Juha's recommended 20AWG; a pair of them is almost thick enough.