GUS Assembly Instructions [$147]

[NicholasSeward]

Complete the assembly instructions and a getting started guide.

There is a $147 open bounty on this issue. Add to the bounty at Bountysource.

[tommythorn]

AFAICT, GUS is still under active development (which is a good thing) so writing guides for it may be premature? Anyway, I see this more as a "support GUS" bounty, but any guide would be a milestone associated with a major release.

[NicholasSeward]

I am making lots of changes but no major functional changes or even dimensional changes like offsets or arm lengths. All the parts play nice together. I still have the original HUB BOTTOM on my machine even though now it has gone through a few iterations. My plans are to polish this design. Major modifications that can't be drop-ins will have to be relegated to future or derivative designs. For instance, I added a taper on a hole to make inserting a bolt easier. This is a nice addition but hardly a reason to reprint an arm.

I think it is important to the community to have the design stabilize. We are collecting lots of ideas on things that could be done different and I am sure that we will see some interesting GUS derivatives.

[cookiengineer]

I would love to build one. Might there be a chance for a parts list to get started?

[NicholasSeward]

https://github.com/NicholasSeward/ConceptFORGE/blob/master/GUS%20Simpson/BOM.csv

Here is the BOM for the current version.

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[mattmoses]

This task is complete, right? There is a nice documentation page on the reprap wiki, and people stopped working on this a year ago. Is it possible to close this issue so that the developer(s) can receive the bounty?

Here is the link to the documentation page:
http://reprap.org/wiki/GUS_Simpson

Here is a link to a related discussion on the reprap forums:
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?337,277762

[NicholasSeward]

@mattmoses It isn't where I would want it but I have abandoned this particular version. What do you think would be the appropriate action?

[tommythorn]

Um, if I recall correctly, the linked documentation page preexisted the bounty and hasn't really moved much since. Is GUS (the design) considered "complete"? I had the impression that it was abandoned, to be resurrected [maybe] in future as GUS v2.

[mattmoses]

The bounty was created on Dec 9, 2013. A wiki page existed at that time, but several people improved it after the bounty was posted. Their work is recorded in this thread:

http://forum.conceptforge.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=115

If there is consensus that this work counts as "complete", it seems reasonable to close this issue and try to award the bounty to everyone who contributed (although the logistics of this might get complicated).

Alternatively, since there seems to be no plans to continue working on this, the issue could be closed and designated "won't fix", in which case the backers would receive a refund. There is some additional info about this in the bountysource faq:

https://github.com/bountysource/frontend/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

[mattmoses]

There has been a month of silence since my last comment. It seems obvious that everyone has lost interest in this item and there are no plans to continue working on it.

Nicholas, can you please please please close out this item as "won't fix" so that the bounties can be released?

Your respectfully,
Matt Moses