Ike:Core - 3D printer based on CoreXY

Let me introduce you to Ike:Core, a core{X,Y} based 3D printer.
Ike:Core is the result of over of year or design and R&D. A year you say? Yes, in February 2013, I decided I was going to learn how 3D printers worked, and the best way to learn it, would be to create my own 3D printer. I am no fabricator or maker. I am a programmer who has built computers in the past. But still, this was a monumental undertaking.

I read many blog posts and the few books about 3D printing. Then, I fell in love with this video http://vimeo.com/40914530 and that was it, I knew what I was going to build. Last time I had soldered something, I was in high school, so, I had to relearn everything, and fill in a few more toolboxes of things I didn'?t have in the process, like cable crimpers and what not.

My goal designing this printer was to use as many off the shelf parts as I could, while retaining the original design of core{X,Y}. So, I used parts such as SK12 linear supports, SC12LUU linear blocks