Historical list of 3D pritners needed

Can anyone with a better memory than mine point me to where I can find the information (URL, file, ebook or whatever) described below?

I am looking for a URL, or maybe a text file from several years ago, possibly before 2018. This was a list which included most of the commercial as well as RepRap and published maker-built FFF 3D printers. Although there may have been other details, I do remember that this included a classification of the type of kinematic mechanism used by each printer. There were many printers included, possibly over a hundred types.

Thank you for any information you can give me.
Mike.

... maybe something like this?

[reprap.org]

[www.asme.org]

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Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]

Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

Thanks, VDX, although that was not the one I was looking for, it did point to the one I had seen in the past:-

[docs.google.com]

Unfortunately, there has been no record-keeping of developments since approximately 2015, or at least none that I have been able to find.

Mike

... the list's synthesis and updates are mainly driven by (temporary) Interest -- some of my "personal" designs didn't make it to the diverse lists too ... search for the "Tripod" by VDX (predessessor of "Rostok" by some years) ... or my "LOM"-3D-laminating setups since 1990 ... CNC-strap-types since 1986 ... and some others (more modern, mostly UV-resin based) too

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/2025 12:16PM by VDX.

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Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]

Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

With the arrival cheap crap printers from china the development of DIY printers dropped to almost none.

... if you remember the first years - since (IIRC) 2008 I was advocating "laser-assisted multimaterial-3D-printing" ... first with smaller IR-laserdiodes from 5W to 25W output power on a spot of around 0.1mm ... then ever bigger/stronger modules or fiberlasers, as found and salvaged at different industrial "scrapyards" or at ebay, where they eventually landed sometimes (have IR-laserdiodes with 360W on 0.2mm spot).

Actually i'm developing a system around "Laser-Multimaterial-Micro/Nano-3D-printing" with any material, which can be transmitted/transferred with laser-thermotransfer or sublimation printing ... layer thicknesses from some 100 microns down to some nanometers, any material from plastic, ceramic, metal, ...

So "... the development of DIY printers dropped to almost none." is not entirely correct

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Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]

Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

Sorry Dust, but I must very respectfully disagree. While there is a fair bit of complete dross from China, there is also a lot that is embarrassingly good. I work on the basis that about a third of Chinese stuff is crap, another third is meh!!! and the last third makes me want to know why the Occidental world couldn't design or make things this well.

I have just been reading some of the early posts on the forum, following VDX's posting about the Tripod, and I am struck by how any new idea would be enthusiastically discussed, with both problems and opportunities for improvement debated.

Sadly, in the last few years, any new idea gets shot down in flames: a new take on bed materials, a conjecture about rigidity versus mass, heater element reliability and many other subjects bring out the attack dogs to get the unfortunate questioner back into line.

So yes, the ready availability of both cheap, ready-built 3D printers has meant most will buy instead of build, although a part of the decline of DIY printers has been because the attack dogs were not chased back into their kennels.

Thank you, VDX and Dust, for still being active on the forum.

Mike