Category Archives: RepRap

The Cube 3D was released by 3D Systems in 2014. It is a nice printer but was mostly locked-in to their ecosystem. Since support and cartridge production has mostly ceased these can be found on eBay for <200 USD. I saw some posts on Reddit and Thingiverse about converting these to open-source RepRaps, and rememberedContinue reading “Cube 3D RepRap Conversion”

I totally forgot to write about my bowden setup. I will keep this brief, because it is very simple. Below are pictures of the parts with comments. Above is the bowden coupler. I parameterized it better and simplified the script over the original. The new script allows me to take into account offsets in the holeContinue reading “Printrbot Part 3 : Bowden Setup”

I have been taking my time putting it together, slowly assembling. I think in my old age(18) I’ve started becomeing more meticulous :p. Anyway, I am pretty much completed with the build. Over all goal were met. It is transportable, and very light. It should serve as a good hacking platform. It is going toContinue reading “Printrbot Part 2”

Deltafab has been a kind of dream project for me. I’ve always been fascinated by the speed of delta robots.  In June of this year I had first started pondering how would be the best way to go about making a mostly reprappable delta robot. I eventually thought about breaking up the pivots into two locations. IContinue reading “Deltafab Part 1 of many”

I spent most of the first third of my Winter break off from University hacking on the printrbot design posted by whosawhatsis. I wanted to make a few optimizations and most importantly separate the parameterizations of the smooth and threaded rod. Unfortunately, I altered a bit too much in the script to merge easily. Lesson learned, make small alterationsContinue reading “Printrbot Part 1”

More likely back to the mixtape mendel project. I have had, in my head, the ideas I want to implement into version 0.2. Many of these things are fundamentally sound. I also wanted to test out some of the hardware and software I would be using on testing mixtape mendel. Partially to eliminate variables. MostContinue reading “Mixtape Mendel Updates”

Here is what I have learned from version 0.1. – Tapping plastic works well. – I need to make my parts a tad bit thicker. – In OpenSCAD, I should never use scaling factors to describe walls, but rather hard millimeter values. – Having a configuration file would be awesome. – I should flip theContinue reading “Version 0.1 to 0.2”

I figure I will just post up some pics. It turns out I need to rework the top piece and bottom piece, because the motor hits the side rods on the triangle. This effectively makes my x travel around 2cm. 6cm if I pretend the print bed is non existent. I am going to flipContinue reading “2cm of Z travel and other updates”

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6067 I have been preparing for my Science Olympiad competition the past week. I already have a road map for next week, and have started thinking about version 0.2 for mixtape Mendel. All I can say is expect alot next week. My smooth rod will be here possibly, and I will be printing and designingContinue reading “Why this week hasn’t had any developments”