Well... I have been inactive for a while now, I guess... But a certain event that might entail additional customs charges for the parts that I want to source from Britain, is pressuring me back into activity :D

Now I did not do nothing all this time, but I did get a plan going for the power lines. As mentioned before, I have someone with more experience than me in the field help me with the selection of specific parts, so the plan is just for the power connections, not the data lines. These are to be specified when the parts are fixed (Also, logic level stuff is more my expertise, so I can more easily deal with all of that on my own, while I am more concerned about getting all the higher-voltage lines done to spec).

schematic_v1.pdf

I also already got a hold of a couple parts: The person helping me has access to some old parts that are not used anymore, so I already have a 24V PSU, all the connector blocks and wiring that I could ever need, as well as a transformer and the fuses.

What I am looking to get in a more time sensitive manner, is the UC300eth controller, as well as the steppers mentioned in the above post and the AM882 drivers to run them. The drivers and controller have already been discussed in this thread, but it is the motors I am still a bit unsure about. They were chosen under the constraints that were brought up, but I might have overlooked something.

On a different note of mechanics: I am pretty much ready, at this point to start buying parts, like the alu, the plates and the rails. I actually already have one of the rails here. And since there does not seem to be anything to change in the design, I will probably proceed with that, as soon as the electrical part is signed off on by the council of more knowledged people here :) And I guess, once I start buying, it is finally time to open a build log thread.