***this isnt just about reprap making its own boards. its about it making any circuit board you can dream up. yes, it will definitely need to make its own boards, but this project is only about self-replication on the surface.*** Um ... yeah, but how many people out there in the Third World are going to want to design circuit boards and how many are going to want to design three dimensional objby Forrest Higgs - General
Simon, Have you still got the AoI files that you generated to do that? Forrestby Forrest Higgs - General
Except that you have an object made out of impregnated starch or plaster. Mind, I chatted with a guy named Jeff today who runs an outfit called SOS components (http://www.3dprinting.com.au/) that uses ZCorp and Stratasys machines both. He says that his firm has done a lot of work compounding new binder solutions that he claims yield stronger products than the FDM'ed ABS that his Stratasys putsby Forrest Higgs - General
LOL! You know, this who thing about making RepRap make circuit boards and wiring wouldn't be nearly the issue that it is if you all had designed a simpler control scheme at the onset. There are SO many things that a RepRap can be used to make that would make the world a better place that I really wonder about this obsessive focus on making circuitry that the team seems to have got into. I've wby Forrest Higgs - General
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The place is right there in Wellington. That's pretty close to you isn't it Simon? They have a ZCorp printer which uses starch or plaster to build the models. It's a LOT faster than FDM and it's easy to colour by adding dye to the binder fluid. Problem is that you wind up with a plaster or starch MODEL of what you designed, not the real thing. Wish it wasn't that way. :-(by Forrest Higgs - General
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I'm including this email that I just got from Vladimir Soso at Oshonsoft in Serbia. I'd mentioned around the New Year that he had committed to port his BASIC compiler and IDE over to the Atmel product line. He's just released the products. ********************************************************************************** Dear users, I would like to inform you that I have released new versionby Forrest Higgs - Reprappers
The odd thing is that both PIC's still work and if I didn't mind their operating at about 45 degrees and was willing to supply them enough 5v to do that they would be fine. As it is the 7805 voltage regulator gets pretty hot when you demand that much amperage out of it. I got a return on the trouble ticket I submitted to Microchip about the problem with the overheating in the 18F4610 a few hourby Forrest Higgs - General
I just shot off a trouble ticket to Microchip about my 18F4610 PIC. I'm pasting a copy of what I told them here to see if any of you have run into this kind of problem with other PIC chips. ************************************************************************************************* I've been using the 18F4610 very successfully in a controller board project for some months now. Yesterday,by Forrest Higgs - General