Our time together on Tuesday ended with the Makerbot all put together and communicating with ReplicatorG. We were excited to see everything coming together but our Plastruder wasn't heating up so we weren't able to do a test extrusion. We planned to tackle this problem the following Thursday; Alex was going to see if his TA would be able to give us some advise. I was feeling particularly motivated on Wednesday between classes so I began scouring the Makebot forums. I found a person who was having similar problems. It turned out that the port our heater controller was plugged into wasn't working. I quickly switched the connection and it did the trick. The instructions now require us to remap the ports in ReplicatorG, this should be a challenging task.
We were also having trouble updating the firmware of the motherboard and extruder controller. While searching on the forums I was also able to find out how to update the motherboard.
In other news, we have decided on a name for our Makerbot: Midas!
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