Pro Huxley Introduction | Frame assembly | Y axis assembly | X axis assembly | Z axis assembly | Heated bed assembly | Extruder drive assembly | Hot end assembly | Wiring | Commissioning | Printing | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | Improvements These pages are the complete instructions for building, commissioning and using the RepRapPro Ltd version of RepRap Huxley. Like all RepRap machines, RepRapPro Huxley is fully open-source. It is licenced under the GPL. If you want to print the plastic parts for a RepRapPro Huxley, see this wiki page. Give yourself plenty of space and ensure your work area is clean. Before you start the build, please ensure you have all the components as listed on the packing list included in the kit. We understand that people may want to change aspects of the machine's design, and in fact we encourage this as it is one of the benefits of open source development. Table of Contents Our Forum. March 2013 Version in PDF format RepRapPro Archived Documentation Mechanical Electrical
Basic 3D Printer Prints Advanced 3D Printer, Humanity Threatened 3D printing has been gaining a lot of popularity in the last couple of years. There’s even a DIY 3D printer community at RepRap. Since most of the parts used in these 3D printers are fairly simple, it’s possible for a 3D printer to print the parts necessary to make new 3D printers — it’s even possible to print a new 3D printer more advanced than the one doing the printing! Skynet, take note: I, for one, welcome our new self-replicating printer overlords. In this video, we see a young man use a basic RepRap 3D printer (the “Darwin” model) to print the parts necessary to assemble a more advanced printer (the “Mendel” model). Thankfully, it still takes a human being to assemble the parts to construct the printer.
Fabriquer son imprimante 3D • 3D-Makers Oui il est possible de fabriquer son imprimante 3D personnelle à partir de plans disponibles gratuitement en Open Source. Ces ressources vous mèneront vers des sites internet anglophones et sont réservés aux personnes qui maîtrisent les techniques de constructions mécaniques et électroniques. Sachez que vous ferez des économies en utilisant cette approche mais que vos connaissance seront mises à rudes épreuves. Vous pourrez bien entendu trouver de l’aide sur notre forum ou nous la communauté se fera un plaisir de vous répondre. La plus connue des imprimantes 3D à fabriquer soi-même est la RepRap. RepRap est un projet britannique de l’Université de Bath, visant à créer une imprimante tridimensionnelle en grande partie auto-réplicative et libre (c’est-à-dire sans brevet, et dont les plans seront disponibles pour tout le monde) sous licence Licence publique générale GNU. Dans les grandes lignes, le projet RepRap a pour but de permettre la création d’une machine capable de se répliquer.
Napster For Pirated 3D Printing Templates? Buy it in a store, laser-scan it at home, upload it to the web, print it anywhere. 3D printing is poised for the mainstream, but what happens when one person’s finely hand-crafted designs can be pirated and reproduced by anyone? Will 3D-printing-piracy social networks arise? And how will manufacturers lobby to stop them? The ideas came out of my conversation at TechCrunch Disrupt NY with Alex Winter, director of the new documentary about Napster called “Downloaded”. I believe it. I imagine this situation will lead to the rise of a Napster for 3D printing models along with websites like The Pirate Bay’s physibles section. Eventually, the old manufacturing industry will wise up, and independent designers will band together to try to thwart physible piracy. However it all plays out, it’s sure to be exciting. [Image Credit: The 7 Stars]
Fabrication d'une imprimante 3D par un novice : introduction Accueil » Imprimante 3D » Fabrication d’une imprimante 3D par un novice, partie 1 Introduction L’imprimante 3D est présentée comme un modèle d’avenir, comparable à la révolution informatique apparue aux États-Unis dans les années 1970. Pour bon nombre de personnes, elle apparaît comme une technologie abstraite, à l’intérêt limité pour le moment. Ils n’ont qu’en partie raison. Je suis l’un d’eux, une personne lambda, ni ingénieur en informatique ni génie des mathématiques obnubilé par la quadrature du cercle ou les équations à trois inconnues. La lecture de L’Éthique des hackers, livre culte des passionnés d’informatique, écrit par Steven Levy m’a permis de mettre en parallèle la révolution des ordinateurs et celle en cours dans le domaine des imprimantes 3D : des passionnés pris pour des fous, dans un domaine encore considéré comme marginal, qui changeront certainement l’avenir de sociétés moins obsédées par l’accès libre à l’information que par la consommation. Projet RepRap Le Logo RepRap
An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace Joshua Pearce, PhD , is a researcher at Michigan Tech who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the Printers For Peace contest , an effort to bring together clever 3D-printed ideas that have loftier aims. You can win one of two 3D printers if you submit a winning project. We asked Pearce a few questions about his goals for the project and about the future of 3D printing. John Biggs: Why Printers For Peace? Michigan Tech and Type A Machines sponsored the contest to get the more positive truth about 3D printers into the conversation. JB: What do you think will happen now that the 3D printed gun is out of the bag? JB: What’s the coolest Printers for Peace project you’ve seen so far? JB: What’s next?
fr RepRap est la première machine autoréplicable de production d'usage général fabriqué par l'homme. RepRap se présente sous la forme d'une imprimante 3D, pilotée par un logiciel libre, capable d'imprimer des objets en plastique. Puisque la RepRap est composée de plusieurs pièces de plastique et que la RepRap a la capacité d'imprimer ces pièces, la RepRap peut être considérée comme autoréplicable — tout le monde peut la construire avec du temps et le matériel nécessaire. Le concept RepRap relève de la production de machines autoreplicables, ainsi que de les rendre librement accessibles au bénéfice de tous. RepRap.org est un projet collectif, vous êtes donc cordialement invités à modifier presque toutes les pages de ce site, ou mieux, créer de nouvelles pages personnalisées. RepRap a été la première imprimante 3D à faible coût. RepRap est devenue l'imprimante 3D la plus largement utilisée parmi les membres mondiaux de la Maker Community :
TC Makers: 3D Printing Wizards At Shapeways Show Us Their Brand New Queens Factory It’s rare to see a company that is so established yet as cutting-edge as Shapeways. The company, founded in 2007 as a spin-off of Royal Philips Electronics, began as a one-off 3D printing service that offered basic plastic items for sale online. Over the years, however, the company has branched off into some amazing materials – steel, ceramic, and even sandstone – and they’ve already been able to support full color printing in 3D. Now the company is opening a series of facilities in the US and they invited us to their first print shop in Long Island City, New York. I spoke with co-founder Peter Weijmarshausen about the Shapeways process, the printers, and what it takes to become a 3D-printing powerhouse in a nascent market. TechCrunch Makers is a video series featuring people who make cool stuff.
Prusa i3/fr Prusa i3 Release status: Working Introduction La troisième version de la Prusa (itération 3) est la nouvelle et actuelle imprimante 3D conçue par le noyau de développeurs Prusajr. Caractéristiques Pièces imprimées : Clone Wares sur GitHub ou sur Thingiverse ~45€ Pièces non imprimé : Version "simgle frame" Thingiverse ~50€ en bois / ~90€ en acier Ramps 1.4 assemblé (sans les contrôleur Pas à Pas): ~80€ 4x assemblage de carte contrôleur de Pas à Pas avec radiateur : ~6€ /pièce pour 5; ~xx€ /pièce pour 4 (5 cartes si 2ème extrudeur) 5x moteur Pas à Pas NEMA 17 : ~12€ / pièces (6 moteur si 2ème extrudeur) Buse d'impression : Jhead ~40€ Plateau chauffant : Heated Bed ~10€ (ajouter ~16€ pour la plaque de verre borosilicate) Système de guidage & entrainement : ~40/50€ (NDT : à vérifier) Visseries : ~40€ Coût du matériel : ~390€ à 480€ estimation Zonne d'impression: 200mm x 200mm x 180mm (8"x8"x7.25" sur MakerFarm) (Dimensions Mendel 200x200x140mm). Principales améliorations Développement
3D-Printing Technology Produces Modern Exoskeletal Cast With this new 3D-printed exoskeletal cast idea, the incredibly fun and funky looking design provides a bit of leeway when it comes to scratching that itch halfway down your arm or balancing one leg outside of the shower so as not to get the cast wet. Victoria University of Wellington Architecture and Design school graduate Jake Evill recently developed this concept, called Cortex. According to Evill, the exoskeletal cast provides a strong fractured-bone support system featuring lightweight protection that is ventilated, recyclable, and shower friendly. To produce the cast, the patient receives an X-Ray scan during which the break is identified. Jake Evill's website via [Colossal]
simplement KIT | Printrbot The Printrbot Simple Maker’s Kit is an exercise in 3d printing minimalism. It includes only what is needed to get started in the world of 3D printing. Our Printrbot Simple Maker’s Kit is $349 , and we think you will agree that it is both tiny…and a really big deal. Features of the Printrbot Simple Kit: The 2014 model comes standard with Aluminum Extruder and Aluminum print bed for $3490.1mm resolution (and beyond)100mm cube of printing volume (~4″ cube)Printrboard electronicsPLA only (no heat bed)Ubis 1.75mm Hotend200lb. test fishing line – the X & Y “belts”12v 6A laptop style power supplyOuter dimensions: 7″ x 8″ x 9″~5.25lb total weightSample of 1.75mm PLA filamentFan and end stops includedLaser cut wood parts are standard 1/4″ (6mm) thick Printrbot does not guarantee the technical proficiency of it’s customers. Simply stated; If you order a Printrbot kit, we cannot guarantee that you have the technical ability to assemble and calibrate the Printrbot.
Self Assembly of 3D objects One of most exciting uses of 3D Printing is the ability to print an object (usually something quite flat) that then assembles into the final object. We have discussed this before. Here is another way of doing it: Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a way to make two-dimensional patterns self-assemble into three-dimensional objects by simply shining light on them. Print some plastic – then shine light on it Researchers take a pre-scored plastic sheet — made out of the same polystyrene material used in popular 80s craft toy Shrinkies that shrinks uniformly when heated — and cut it into the relevant pattern. Black lines adsorb more and then distort The black lines — printed along the folding points absorb more energy than the rest of the material and cause the plastic to contract, creating a hinge that folds the sheets into 3D objects such as cubes and pyramids without anyone physically touching the material — check out the process in action in the video above.