Chemical Etching Precision Metal Parts | Chemical Milling & Machining | Fotofab. Investment Castings - Shelmet Precision Investment Castings - Lost Wax Castings. Rapid Prototyping and Injection Molding Services | Quickparts.com. Precision Metal Bellows. Home - DATRON Dynamics. Wiki. RepRap is humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine. RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself - a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials. It also means that - if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend...
RepRap is about making self-replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone. Reprap.org is a community project, which means you are welcome to edit most pages on this site, or better yet, create new pages of your own. RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-source 3D printer revolution. RepRap was voted the most significant 3D-printed object in 2017. About | Development | Community | RepRap Machines | Resources | Policy. Rapid Prototyping Machines. Smart Fingers concept makes measuring simple. It’s a natural thing to do: you want to know how big something is, so you measure it by pinching your fingers. Sadly, unless you’re a cyborg from the future sent back in time to measure things, it doesn’t really help – unless, that is, you’re equipped with the Smart Fingers. A concept design featured over on the Yanko Design blog, and the brainchild of designers Choi Hyong-Suk, Jung Ji-hye and Yoo-Jin Park, the Smart Fingers are augmentations for your puny human hands that allow you to measure any distance quickly and easily. it works by beaming a signal between the fingertip sensor and the thumb sensor: by measuring how long it takes for this signal to reach the receiving sensor, you can work out how far apart the two sensor are to a surprisingly high level of accuracy – it’s similar to how ultrasonic ‘tape’ measures work.
Varying units of measurement are supported, and the Smart Fingers will automatically convert between units at the press of a button. Ice-based rapid prototyping machine. A team of tinkerers over at the McGill University in Montreal have created an eco-friendly 3D printer which uses plain water to print ice sculptures. As profiled over on Cory Doctorow’s Boing Boing, the team have successfully modified their FAB@HOME desk-based rapid prototyping machine to create fully realized 3D sculptures from ice based on commands sent to it from a PC running CAD/CAM software.
While 3D printers are nothing new – and are often used by engineers to rapidly create a physical prototype of a new part, allowing real-world tests to be carried out without the expense of having a whole production line created specifically for a handful of prototypes – the use of ice is an interesting departure from the traditional plastic, wax, or starch-based materials most commonly used in such devices.
There are certainly advantages to the use of ice in rapid prototyping: it’s hardy, it’s readily available, and it can be easily disposed of with no harm to the environment. Z Corp. Homepage. Materialise: Driving Your Innovations.