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Have you tried bolting a dremel or router to your RepRap? Can you engrave and drill PCBs? Or cut wood, or ... steel? (Or do you have a commercial mill or CNC router?)
Re: RepRap Magazine Issue 3? - 10 years ago
@eko.prasetiyo Which link in particular doesn't work? All the links from the homepage worked for me (issuu and both PDF links)by garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Improving the email notifications of forum updates - 10 years ago
Many thanks Bill!by garyhodgson - Administration, Announcements, Policy
Re: Improving the email notifications of forum updates - 10 years ago
Hello again Admins, I was pleasantly surprised the other day when an email from the RepRap forum arrived and the actual message of the post was contained within! I was then sadly disappointed to find that this has only been turned on for the German forum. Would you please consider also implementing it for the remaining forums? Best regards, Garyby garyhodgson - Administration, Announcements, Policy
Re: Would anyone pay for a physical copies of the magazine? - 11 years ago
One option would be to use something like Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/) to print on demand. A quick check shows that 1 colour, paperback copy would cost €14.90. 100 would cost €13.41 each I had one of my visual instructions printed out for me and the quality was good.by garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Issue 2 hotly anticipated 
- 11 years ago
Hi Nophead, So far I have been trying out feedly (http://feedly.com) and commafeed (https://www.commafeed.com). Feedly is a bit more polished and has an android app, commafeed is a bit more basic, but more akin to google reader. Both make transferring from google reader pretty painless. Sadly I will have to find yet another service when Google stops iGoogle later in the year. Makes me thinby garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Issue 2 hotly anticipated - 11 years ago
Hi guys, you can expect it within the next couple of days I think - we're just putting the finishing touches to it. by the way, there is a rss feed if you get tired of hitting refresh all the time (http://reprapmagazine.com/feed.rss) Cheers, Garyby garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Can we put an organized model repository up on reprap.org? - 11 years ago
I would support fabfabbers being made into an open-source product that people could host themselves, and I think it would make a good start for a reprap repository of some kind. Perhaps it's already possible, can fabfabbers read git repositories other than those hosted on github? I would suggest having that as one of the development goals so that it could be bundled into a repo+hosting serviceby garyhodgson - General
Re: Prusa Mendel Iteration 2 Documentation? - 11 years ago
@tuficneme - the manual is for i1, but still might be useful for i2 builders as I believe many parts are the same.by garyhodgson - Reprappers
Re: Open source CNC Plasma cutting table? - 11 years ago
Wow - I didn't even know "hand plasma cutters" were a thing and now I want to build one of these A lot of the work pieces were not to my taste (as wasn't the music but the way it powers through cutting is pretty impressive. I could imagine this being relatively straight-forward to build, something similar to the ShapeOKO maybe (http://www.shapeoko.com/)? Now, how to convince the wife that sby garyhodgson - CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
Re: Low cost 3D printing filament extruder for recycled plastics - 11 years ago
Nice work Xabbax, It looks like you changed the design between pics DSC00847 and DSC00850, by adding a flange to stop the heat travelling back along the extruder pipe, is that right? Do you have temperature control at all? EDIT - now I reread your post I see you used fixed temperature heaters. Cheers, Garyby garyhodgson - Plastic Extruder Working Group
Re: Anyone know a good read for 3d printer mechanics - 11 years ago
Hi, Not wanting to appear to be self promoting here, but a little while ago I collated several of the big/early blogs around reprap into PDF and EPUB formats: In particular I highly recommend Nophead's - HydraRaptor – The story so far - simply because he covers many topics in depth and many of his results are now "standard" reprap design. If you do find any other resources for mechanics for tby garyhodgson - General
Re: New site for sharing models from GitHub, and OpenSCAD in the browser - 11 years ago
Hi Marcos, FYI, I may have caused a server error by attempting to add a fork of Nophead's Mendel90 project (it returned a 500 error midway and it seems not all folders are loaded) Also, it raises an interesting point. I forked the repo from Nophead to see how it looks in FabFabbers, but the model appears as though attributed to me - perhaps it would be good to somehow indicate the family histoby garyhodgson - General
Re: New site for sharing models from GitHub, and OpenSCAD in the browser - 11 years ago
Hi Marcos, The crashes were the entire browser tab in Chrome, but it didn't happen consistently, and it hasn't happened since. I'll try and take notes if/when it happens again. I definitely understand what you mean about weighing up whether to invest time in implementing features! Of course my comments and suggestions are meant only as that, no pressure from me Your initial work ticks a loby garyhodgson - General
Re: New site for sharing models from GitHub, and OpenSCAD in the browser - 11 years ago
Another question: There doesn't appear to be a way to re-edit an openscad script once it has been generated (and I have changed the script) Loading the source code back into the editor would of course be very handy.by garyhodgson - General
Re: New site for sharing models from GitHub and OpenSCAD in the browser - 11 years ago
Yup, already uploaded two. The whole process is very easy and intuitive and I had no problems. A couple of points I thought of whilst playing: When defining tags there is a warning that spaces are not allowed, even if I write "tag1, tag2". Having the check happen for each tag, rather than the whole string would probably make sense. The OpenSCAD editor has crashed Chrome a few times - just aby garyhodgson - General
Re: New site for sharing models from GitHub and OpenSCAD in the browser - 11 years ago
Hi Marcos, The site looks slick, and I like the openscad integration - will have to play some more. One thing I noticed: there's no indicator that I am signed in, other than a message saying I am if I try and click the login button again. It might be useful to add an indicator or something. Also, RSS feeds for new models, and news/updates about the site, would be really useful. And this is onby garyhodgson - General
Re: RepRap magazine: issue #1 - 11 years ago
Hi bigfilsing, The content for edition 2 is already pretty much decided so I will add your suggestion to our list. I agree that such a guide would be useful. Regards, Garyby garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: google books 
- 11 years ago
Hi dissidence, If you are referring to Google Play Magazines then this feature isn't available over here yet (at least here in Germany) - so until it is I can't really play with it. Cheers, Garyby garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Cannot open magazine on Macos - 11 years ago
Good to hear - thanks for getting back to us! Enjoy the issueby garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Cannot open magazine on Macos - 11 years ago
Hi, I'll ping the question over to pdesigns who generated the PDFs. It's a strange problem though as I believe it has been downloaded and read on Macs already. I'll let you know. Cheers, Gary.by garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Idea: Slic3r as Service - 11 years ago
Hi guys, A couple of links which you may find interesting... Cheers, Garyby garyhodgson - Slic3r
Re: Sketchup not using true size - 11 years ago
Hmmm, I can't comment for cadspan as I haven't used it. I use the STL exporter plugin from this page and it explicitly asks you what units to export in.by garyhodgson - 3D Design tools
Re: Sketchup not using true size - 11 years ago
@TerryKidd - When you choose the STL file for import there is an options button to the right-handside. You have to select this and choose "millimeters" to import with the correct units.by garyhodgson - 3D Design tools
Re: RepRap magazine: issue #1 - 11 years ago
Hi everyone - the RSS feed is now implemented. Direct link =by garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: RepRap magazine: issue #1 - 11 years ago
Hi @rockethacker - that's on the todo list - i'll post here when it's there.by garyhodgson - RepRap magazine
Re: Introducing ParametricParts.com: Productivity for 3D - 11 years ago
Nice work Dave! Looks like a good start. I'll look forward to playing with it a bit more when I get home.by garyhodgson - General
Re: Fil-A-Mental Extruder - 11 years ago
That is a very neat (and compact) design! Congratulations! From the looks of it once you get your higher torque motor running it'll run like a champ! You give lots of great info in the video, but are you also planning on writing up more details on the design somewhere? Perhaps in the wiki? Great work! Garyby garyhodgson - Look what I made!
Re: grrf.de filament reviews? - 11 years ago
Hi, I've been using their 3mm PLA since April 2011 and I am happy with it. I'd recommend them. Cheers, Garyby garyhodgson - General
Re: DIY linear bearings (no PLA) - 11 years ago
Thanks for the follow-up. One thing worth keeping in mind when comparing with bearings is how good are the rods? After less than a year with bearings, my rods are developing grooves where the balls run, so I have to either rotate the rods slightly or replace them (with harder, and hence more expensive, ones). If the UHMWPE does last a few years it may be comparable (taking into considerationby garyhodgson - Developers
Re: DIY linear bearings (no PLA) - 11 years ago
That's a great resource! Thanks for sharing!by garyhodgson - Developers