Category Archives: RepRap

Yes, lots to blog about about. First, the top piece. I got most of my ideas from hacklab.to for this part. Most of it isn’t interesting, except for an accident in the design I made. I had originally intended to shift the motors outward to allow for room for the nuts. As I was finalizingContinue reading “The top piece, mistake turned experiment, and looking like a printer”

These pieces were very simple to design. I had three main ideas I wanted to implement. The first was glue free bushing holders. My idea was to wrap the plastic around the bushings, so they get pressure fit within the cavity. You can still pop the smooth rod off, but now they align better andContinue reading “X end pieces”

Ok, so sometime last week I was messing around and realized that I could totally eliminate a bearing from the printer. The realization was that the pulley inner circumference was a tad bit over 8mm, so a M8 rod could go right between the belt if everything lined up just right. Well it took upContinue reading “Y Motor Bracket”

This is going to be short and sweet. I have decided to use Whosawhatasis’ bar clamps in addition to his vertexes. They are here. I have done this for two reasons. The major one is the bars perpendicular have zero gap between them, as illustrated here. There is a gap between the two bars onContinue reading “Bar Clamps”

I have to say what really got me started on this project was this. The design is nice, parametric and simple. I had been messing with hollowed out vertexes and trying to make them lighter. Whosawhatasis’ vertex uses as little material as possible and is well executed. I posted up a updated scad file here.Continue reading “Frame Vertexes”

The Mendel I am going to be building is aiming to be simpler, faster and more precise. To achieve the faster and more precise part I am going to be pushing the limit of my firmware. I have forked off the Tonokip-Firmware I have been maintaining the past few months and am going to beContinue reading “Race Track Firmware”

Mixtape Mendel is a project with many goals covering differing disciplines. The main goal is to use existing tools and designs, throw in a bit of my own work and bring it all together to make a simpler, faster, more precise 3D printer. The real hypothesis is going to be something along the lines ofContinue reading “Mixtape Design Goals”