Stepper Motor Driver v1.1 Overview This board allows you to control one stepper motor, as well as receive input from two limit switches. It is based around the L297 ...

Project Status: RepRap makes a complete set of all the printed parts it needs to copy itself. See the main and builders' blogs for details and more news. "Think of ...

Opto Endstop v1.0 Overview Darwin’s Cartesian axes all need a datum (also known as home position or end-stop) to reference their movements. At the start of each build ...

PWM Driver v1.1 Overview This board is designed to allow you to control high power devices that only have a single polarity. Things like heaters, fans, solenoids ...

DC Motor Driver v1.1 Overview This board allows you to control up to 2 small DC motors individually. Each motor can be driven at a maximum of 750 mA. It supports ...

Statistics for Main Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads: May 2008 34879 42 6 ...

Installing the RepRap software under Linux or Unix RepRap uses a large number of open-source software packages for development, and quite a few when it runs. This ...

Setting up NetBeans Software versions known to work are shown in brackets, just in case future releases do not. For Windows: Download NetBeans (v6.0.1). Download ...

The RepRap host software. The code that runs on the computer controlling a RepRap machine is written in Java. You can find the Javadocs for it here and browse all ...

Hints on Using Art of Illusion for RepRap We have decided to use Art of Illusion (AoI for short) as the design system for RepRap. AoI is not intended as an engineering ...

Tweaking Manual This page is under construction. This is a suggested method to help you get up and running quickly. Test .stl's are attached at the bottom of this ...

Items Made This page shows some example objects made by prototype and production RepRap machines. They are in reverse chronological order most recent first. A lot ...

AuthorGroup Set GROUP Main.SimonMcAuliffe, Main.AdrianBowyer, Main.BrettBellmore, Main.EdSells, Main.ForrestHiggs, Main.VikOlliver, Main.ZachSmith, Main.SebastienBailard ...

Name: Sam Hendley Email: sam.hendley@gmail.com Company Name: Company URL: http://samsreprap.blogspot.com Country: USA Comment: Building a darwin in Chapel Hill, NC ...

List of RepRap users Please take the time and add yourself to the list. To do that fill out the form in .TWikiRegistration. This will create an account for you which ...

Arduino Based Electronics Overview Once you start putting electricity into your RepRap even at just 12 volts you have to take basic, common sense precautions to ...

Stepper Motors Stepper motors move a known interval for each pulse of power, making them handy devices for repeatable positioning. Generally they come in two flavours ...

Thermistors RepRap Thermistors Each thermistor has a variety of special values such as Beta and Rz value. A variety of thermistors you may encounter when building ...

Cartesian Assembly (Mechanical) Hello, and welcome to the first Cartesian assembly page! Here we will assemble the mechanical parts of Darwin’s Cartesian robot step ...

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Z Axis Problems If you've reached this page, then your probably a bit pissed off. All that time and effort and the damn thing just isn't moving up and down reliably ...

RepStrap: A Bootstrap RepRap machine aka the !RepStrap machine, or making a RepRap machine from nothing. Introduction The purpose of the RepStrap sub-project is to ...

Arduino Breakout Shield v1.2 Overview The Arduino Breakout Shield is a shield that plugs into an Arduino and provides all the Arduino pins as screw terminals. It ...

Temperature Sensor v1.1 Overview You'll need a soldering toolkit to do most of this. Read our Electronics Fabrication Guide if you're new. Get It! Full Kit

This has been superseded by Arduino Breakout Shield v1.2 If you have the old version, it still works great! No need to upgrade. The new version is 100 compatible ...

This has been superseded by Temperature Sensor v1.1 If you have the old version, it still works great! No need to upgrade. The new version is 100 compatible, but ...

How to build RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" These pages are under construction. This page, and those to which it links, are a comprehensive guide to making the first release ...

RepRap Home Introduction What can it make? One page description Future Plans Main Blog Documentation Make RepRap "Darwin" Software Obtaining Parts RepStrap machines ...

RepRap Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following companies, individuals and organisations for giving grants or donations to, for sponsoring, or for contributing ...

Making the non-rapid-prototyped mechanical parts for the extruder This page is in the process of being edited Introduction There are two main mechanical parts to ...

Adrian Bowyer giving a talk on RepRap to Pop!Tech 2007 in Camden, Maine. Pop!Tech is a yearly conference on technical issues of world concern and on the technical ...

Distributing and copying RepRap RepRap is copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 University of Bath, the RepRap researchers (see the project's People page), and other ...

Press and other articles You can find RepRap's entry in Wikipedia at this link. The following press and web articles are in rough chronological order of their appearance ...

Gearbox Design for the GM3 motor This page deatils a design to gear the Solarbotics GM3 motor down by approximately 3:1. Main.EdSells 10 Apr 2008

The Thermoplast Extruder version 1.1 This page is in the process of being modified from version 1.0 Table of contents Introduction The thermoplast extruder is the ...

Thermocouple Sensor v1.0 Overview This is a simple board for measuring temperature. It uses an AD595 chip to make thermocouple measurements easy. The AD595 amplifies ...

Downloading and installing the RepRap development software under Linux or Unix RepRap uses a large number of open-source software packages for development, and quite ...

What is NetBeans NetBeans is Sun's IDE for Java. We use it specifically for GUI development. Whilst Eclipse is our standard IDE for general code, Eclipse fails to ...

The RepRap Live CD There is a RepRap live CD (lots of thanks to Reece Arnott) that will boot up in a PC and allow you to run RepRap without installing it. Get it ...

Plywood?! Yes, plywood. Plywood cut with frickin' lasers. Toby Borland did the initial work, and modified that to be broadly compatible with Darwin parts. So you ...

Parts Supplies for RepRap Machines RepRap Parts Lister Many of the parts needed to build a RepRap can be obtained from a variety of suppliers. We have created a part ...

Thermocouple Sensor v1.1 TODO Add alarm output pin Add mounting hole(s)? Fix silkscreen /- Make tracks to/from Pin 1/14 to thermocouple fatter add 100n decoupling ...

Name: Erik de Bruijn Email: reprap@erikdebruijn.nl Company Name: BudgetDedicated.com Company URL: http://www.budgetdedicated.com Country: Netherlands Comment: My ...

This was a 'failed' board. A green coaster if you will. You probably want the fixed version

Darwin Part Development This interim page is designed to host the developments required to achieve Darwin's replication. It tracks only the cartesian robot, not the ...

Stepper Motor Driver v1.2 TODO Add 5V regulator Add opto isolation 12v / Gnd / Gnd / 5v silkscreen indicators add IDC header reposition L298 to edge of board for ...

This page is mostly done. Contact hoeken@rrrf.org with any errors or suggestions. McWire Cartesian Bot v1.2 Introduction Many more pictures of the machine can be ...

Why Accountants are Dull and Guitarists are Glamorous The End of Intellectual Property Adrian Bowyer "Intellectual property is dead." Eric von Hippel, Professor ...

This page is obsolete. Use the Darwin Extruder page instead. The !RepRap Thermoplast Extruder Head Version 2 #TableOfContents 0. Table of Contents Summary Introduction ...

RepRap Showcase This page illustrates the concept of what we're trying to achieve and our progress so far. For the very latest news and technical developments you ...