Surely someone has thought of this, but can't find if there has actually been any work done on it. Basicly you build all the peices for mendel out of hybrid rp/lego peices. The standard dimentions of legos are set internationally, and already based of metric measurements. They also have an already active development community. [www.robertcailliau.eu] The parts can be had new and used cheap Basicly what you would do is print custome lego interface peices, so on the vertex peices all you would actually print would be the tear drop hole, the rest would be lego, The main bulk of the x caraige would be lego, but all the interfaces would be RP. I know we have printed lego bricks, but has anyone started any work on this idea? Is it not doable (considering what is done in the mindstorm community it seems hard to imagine it's not doable). Think of it this way, That would bring THOUSANDS of mind storm fans under the RepRap umbrella. https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33667#msg-33667 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:52:43 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,182689#msg-182689 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,182689#msg-182689 Idolcrasher General Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:04:18 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,182683#msg-182683 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,182683#msg-182683

* Lego RepStrap CartesianBot
* NXTStrap
* MendeLego
* Lego RepStrap

Honestly I'm a little surprised that there are already 3 working RepStraps built from fischertechnik parts
and apparently none of the Lego projects are extruding plastic yet.]]> DavidCary General Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:40:16 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,34126#msg-34126 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,34126#msg-34126 spacexula General Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:32:07 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,34089#msg-34089 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,34089#msg-34089
[objects.reprap.org]
[www.flickr.com]]]> greenarrow General Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:21:46 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33706#msg-33706 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33706#msg-33706
So here is a Link regarding Lego to amaze you all.

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

So if you can make a full size house why not a RepRap or the Eiffel tower come to that.]]> BodgeIt General Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:47:52 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33697#msg-33697 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33697#msg-33697 SebastienBailard General Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:18:59 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33696#msg-33696 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33696#msg-33696
Darwin and Mendel were 'born' in the view of rod'n'thread-frames ... with other construction basics there will be complete different mechanics and designs, so this would be a complete different world to explore :D

Viktor]]> VDX General Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:26 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33684#msg-33684 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33684#msg-33684 mccoyn General Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:35:34 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33668#msg-33668 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33668#msg-33668
Building with 'standard' Lego-pieces isn't really stable ... or you have to use glue to fix the bricks to a solid body.

Better use the Technics-bricks with interconnectors ... but for bigger dimensions this is something shaky too.

I think with a good design you can build a frame rigid enough for the common 0.1mm-accuracy with an estimated size of a cube smaller 50x50x50cm.

In this dimensions and with typical legolice fixatures you'll have a building volume around 20cm in diameter, what's not so impressive :(

But for starting with ideas and function-prototypes it's really good :D

By the way - i'm prototyping mostly with "FischerTechnik" because of the higher stiffnes and slightly better interconnection-design, but we have some big boxes full of Lego, Lego-Technics and the Mindstorm Nxt at home too (:P)

Viktor]]> VDX General Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:49 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33667#msg-33667 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,33667,33667#msg-33667
Basicly you build all the peices for mendel out of hybrid rp/lego peices.


The standard dimentions of legos are set internationally, and already based of metric measurements. They also have an already active development community.

[www.robertcailliau.eu]

The parts can be had new and used cheap

Basicly what you would do is print custome lego interface peices, so on the vertex peices all you would actually print would be the tear drop hole, the rest would be lego, The main bulk of the x caraige would be lego, but all the interfaces would be RP.

I know we have printed lego bricks, but has anyone started any work on this idea? Is it not doable (considering what is done in the mindstorm community it seems hard to imagine it's not doable).

Think of it this way, That would bring THOUSANDS of mind storm fans under the RepRap umbrella.]]> spacexula General Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:42:11 -0500