I’ve read about sandblasted glass as a print bed surface elsewhere and when I stopped by at our local glazier lately I fetched a pane for testing. This kind of glass comes readily sandblasted from the manufacturer and can be purchased via most glaziers, I even discovered it at some of the hardware stores around. [...]
Categories: Allgemein
Besides affordability as one major goal there are quite a lot of thoughts out there concerning the sustainalility of the RepRap replication process. It’s about using bio plastics like PLA, made from corn starch and beeing biodegradable, as thermoplastic extrusion material and reducing power consumption of our 3D printing machines. Most parts of a RepRap [...]
Categories: RepRap
Tagged: distribution, ebay, eco-friendly, green electricity, replication, reprap, sustainability
Way ahead since first steps of our RepStrap we passed multiple milestones with both the RepStrap and our RepRap Prusa build and just printing won’t satisfy ambitions anymore. So let’s have a take on print quality! X and Y axes proved quite sturdy so far, but there was still some serious trouble getting rid of [...]
Categories: RepRap
Tagged: coupling, mold, open hardware, open source, reprap, sugru, z axis
Even though the first printer delivers brilliant results so far, we are in a hurry a little at the moment to get the set of plastic parts finished for the second printer, RepStrap’s first child. It seems that printing speed and quality of this machine is limited to the point we stand now, while this [...]
Categories: RepRap
Tagged: open hardware, open source, replication, reprap, repstrap
As already mentioned next door we finally got things wired up and successfully finished our first test prints resulting in even better quality than expected (for the fifth or sixth run at all..). Since our RepStrap was meant to initially start another Family tree of RepRaps – at least one original Mendel Prusa RepRap 3D [...]
Categories: RepRap
Tagged: buildlog, frame, open hardware, open source, reprap, repstrap
It’s been quite a while ago, when Simon began raving of 3D printing, but it took me several weeks to get into it. Finally – on the fourth of july – almost 4 months ago i put down this via twitter: Found http://t.co/EhBidTS – need a 3D printer instantly… @jonaskuehling This should be one of [...]
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Tagged: open hardware, open source, reprap