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FoldaRap4.0

Release status: working

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Description
first folding reprap
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In my obsession dreaming of a folding RepRap, I finally started to make one (end of 2011), after 5-7 months of development, since 2012, I'm able to travel with it around the town/country/world :) (adventures pictured on flickr / youtube). A few thousands were made, from kits or by self-sourcing : FoldaRap_Hall-of-Builds / google-maps.

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Specifications

  • Printed Parts: 47
  • Non-Printed Parts: 266
  • Material Cost: around 400-500g
  • Cost: 300-600 €
  • Printing Size: 140x140x140 mm (or 5.5"x5.5"x5.5")
  • Resolution : XYZ = 0.0065 mm (depends of your stepper drivers and the micro-stepping, e.g.: 1.8° motors + 1/32 microstepping = 152-153 step/mm for the rack version)
  • Tolerance : 40mm = 40mm +/- 0.05 mm
  • Speed: 75-500 mm/s (print-travel, max speed tested yet, 40mm/s for nice corners)
  • Accuracy : 0.05mm (50 microns is the lowest layer height tested yet)
  • Volumetric speed : 0,4mm = 4mm3/s ; 0,5mm = 8mm3/s ; 0,8mm = 10-12mm3/s (usually)

Special Features

  • Foldable !
  • Based on standard parts, easy to reuse/recycle
  • 1.75mm Direct Driven Bowden Extruder ; fixed on the x-axis for less hysteresis and higher z-print
  • Low energy consumption (40-110W)
  • Minimal footprint : 21 x 35 cm
  • Total volume : 34 x 35 x 36 cm / Folded : about 34 x 50 x 10 cm / 3-4kg
  • Printed sliders (PLA) on anodized aluminium extrusion

Community

R&D

FoldaRap x.x

  • rubber wheel on alu and encoders ? (idea suggested by Xevel years ago)
  • 140x140x140mm and 200x200x200mm version
  • rack on the Y-axis (to remove the last belt/pulley)

FoldaRap 4.0

FoldaRap 3.5

  • below 15°C the sliders seems to require a little more force to move (another reason for replacing all the nema14s)

FoldaRap 3.0

Combining old and new ideas, plus the little changes in every parts, and that is good for a new release :)

FoldaRap 2.5

Changes from the 2.1 :

  • nema 17 for the extrusion (instead of a nema 14)
  • small blower to cool the plastic (instead of a 40mm axial fan)

FoldaRap 2.1

FoldaRap 1.0

Huxley size

Mendel size

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?283,221591

Foldarap-Mendel 00.jpg Something between a big foldarap and a mondrian

  • 5 300mm
  • 7 400mm

From the VertX to a whole printer, it's the next big project I started to dream of, some months ago, because I want to have a folding RepRap for travels/exhibitions/conferences that only need to be plugged to print (even if the Huxley is already not bad for that).

  • Foldable (first inspiration came from a folding ladder that my father have, then the Bonsai_RepStrap, this thread where Mendel90 first appeared, and from my Pocket Engraver structure)
  • Few threaded rods (I first thought about aluminium extrusion, but finally I'll assemble printed parts to make the frame, which is also good for replication/changes/scaling)
  • Easily scalable (can be 300x300x300 or 50x50x50, as we want).
  • Sells Mendel style Z-axis (one motor as I like to be able to manually tweak the Z)

More Inspiration

Some details that I found interesting or related or want to integrate to this idea of a foldable machine...

History

  • 2011/11: started to design a folding Mendel, then a folding Huxley
  • 2012/01: starting to design the Fold-a-slot (actual FoldaRap)
  • 2012/05/24: First Print !!
  • 2012/06/23: First known user build started by Spacexula :)
  • 2012/06/28: beginning of the crowdfunding campaign
  • 2012/07: 2-3 more people are starting to build one
  • 2012/07/10: the crowdfunding campaign reached 100% ! (30 days left)
  • 2012/08/08: the campaign ended at 255% !!! FoldaRap_Batch1 in progress.
  • 2012/10 : start of the FoldaRap_Distributed_Manufacturing network
  • 2012/10 : another one is being build by Paoparts
  • 2012/10 : 1st workshop at Nybicc [43]
  • 2012/10/30 : first replication's first print ! (by Joris and his FoldaRap #003)
  • 2012/11 : 2nd workshop at Nybicc [44]
  • 2012/11 : 3rd workshop at Lille [45]
  • 2012/11 : 4th workshop at Dakar [46]
  • 2012/12 : 5th workshop at Orléans [47] and first parts produced by a user's machine for the next kits to be delivered :)
  • 2013/01 : another US build ! makehacklearn
  • 2013/02 : a Japanese Foldarap
  • 2013/04 : FoldaRap 1.1
  • 2013/04/20 : second crowdfunding campaign
  • 2013/07/09 : campaign end at 445% FoldaRap_Batch2 in progress
  • 2013/07 : [48] Alex B. is making his own FoldaRap (mendel size), first beta builder of this model :)
  • 2013/10/01 : 2nd prototype of FoldaRap 2
  • 2014-2016 : FoldaRap 2.5
  • 2017/08 : back to the drawing table (FoldaRap 3)

External links, media/press, etc.

I like feedback from the community, but a little attention from a blog or other people is always good :)

  1. hackaday mention a neat folding reprap, in their article about the many choices of repraps to build
  2. twittpic of Korben at the NuitDuHack2012
  3. Paradoxe temporel [49] and [50] also during the NDH2012
  4. From a little post in the GOALL, to Lorraine numérique / e-alsace
  5. B3dge
  6. 3ders.org
  7. Demonter.net
  8. Mobile Solar Powered 3D Printer Project on Appropedia (a solar powered foldarap ? :))
  9. Faveoly
  10. 3druck
  11. Bundlr
  12. Personnal Factory and several other tumblrs
  13. Fabbaloo
  14. 3dprinter
  15. Imastresd
  16. Nirvasite
  17. Ponoko
  18. Makezine
  19. Genomicon
  20. Dailygeekshow
  21. Semageek
  22. Core77
  23. Notcot
  24. Premiere
  25. Wired
  26. Nada nos libra de escorpio
  27. DfRobot
  28. Usinette&co au Summerlab Nantes
  29. Atelier-outdoor
  30. 2013 whishes by OVA design
  31. Sextoy hacking, from a workshop at the FacLab
  32. Be-3D, une imprimante 3D portable française
  33. Disrupt3d
  34. Reddit
  35. Sarfata's first steps in 3D Printing with a FoldaRap
  36. Ping
  37. Atelier.net
  38. The RepRap project: an open source/open hardware movement for 3D-printing
  39. paperblog
  40. MakerFaire Rome Tour
  41. Good Morning Crowdfunding
  42. France Inter, Bienvenue dans la 3ème dimension
  43. Good Morning Crowdfunding - PDJ
  44. Cerfav
  45. MakeHackFab
  46. Kreizenn-dafar
  47. Formalab
  48. Planète-PME
  49. ITespresso
  50. FrenchWeb
  51. La tête dans le flux : les makers
  52. el diario : Cultura libre y peer production: La era maker
  53. in the Summer edition of Focus, an Italian magazin about science
  54. Il Sole 24 Ore
  55. Maker Faire Rome
  56. Rue 89
  57. Futura-Science maker-faire
  58. REWU 07
  59. Convention APM 2013
  60. Anis asso
  61. birth of the #069 ;-)
  62. Bubu
  63. Xevel
  64. Xevel
  65. F4GRX
  66. marie lombard
  67. 3D Print Show full report
  68. éveillons-nous
  69. RepRap Floss Manual
  70. Poirpom
  71. France 3 Région Lorraine
  72. France 3 édition des régions du Journal National
  73. Management magazine
  74. La Semaine de Metz : Les pionniers d'un monde libre
  75. Mosaik.tv
  76. L'Express
  77. Une Semaine en Lorraine n°54
  78. Management Magazine 217
  79. FabLab Champagneulle
  80. FabLab Lannion
  81. Workshop Chemillé
  82. Workshop Dijon
  83. Sketchup Scribbles
  84. OpenAtelier
  85. HackLab.fr
  86. Républicain Lorrain
  87. Milan Design Week
  88. Stampa3D
  89. Lorraine Numérique
  90. TV8
  91. MJC Apt
  92. Dydlo OHW
  93. Feria matematica (1mn05)
  94. in cover of Comment fabriquer tout et n'importe quoi (translation of "How To Make Almost Anything from Neil Gershenfeld)
  95. Ceci n'est pas une illusion
  96. Yes We Are Open!
  97. Le Parisien Magazine 11.jul.2014

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