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V-Minion 1.1 Alpha

About the V-Minion 1.1 Alpha

The V-Minion 1.1 was developed as an upgrade to the original V-Minion 1.0 design. It was intended to be an incremental update, rather than a full redesign. It improved upon the original in several ways:

  • Removal of the external electronics enclosure, integrating them onto the V-Minion frame in a fully printed enclosure
  • Addition of electronics cooling on the new enclosure
  • Support for the BigTreeTech SKRat V1.0 motherboard
  • Updated toolhead design, based upon the Rat Rig toolhead featured on the V-Core 3.1 and V-Core 4.0
  • Improved routing and support of the bed cables
  • Integrated lead screw decoupler on the Z-axis

Kinematics

The V-Minion uses standard Cartesian kinematics. Unofficially these are often referred to as "bed slingers", as the print bed (and as such the print itself) moves in the Y direction during operation. As the Z-axis is only supported at one end, the V-Minion is considered to be a cantilevered design.

Development Timeline

29/10/2024 - Added non-toolboard variant of the toolhead 15/10/2024 - Published to Rat Rig Lab

CAD

Rat Rig V-Minion 1.1 Alpha CAD Non-Toolboard Toolhead CAD

Bill of Materials

BOM Unavailable

At this time, no BOM is provided for the V-Minion 1.1. Please use the provided CAD model instead.

License

Creative Commons License Unless specified otherwise, all content published on the Rat Rig Lab is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License