Been selling through IRC, figured I would put a note over here. Some images of the Farm at it's current sad state I will take cash, or trade, so if you have plastic (ABS only, any color), motors, electronics, Linear bearings, extruder parts, Imperial Fasteners, Lasercut frames from Makerbot/Fab@Home Access to a laser cutter, Access to a CNC, ... I am pretty easy. Would prefer the cash thoughby spacexula - For Sale
Are you going to upload your modified RP parts? Also when do you plan to upload your 1 board version of the Gen3 electronics?by spacexula - For Sale
It's not the speed, it's the speed at which it can change direction. With Belt drive you can go 60mm/s north, then in 1 tick go 50mm/s south, a 10cm per second direction change in total, all in less than a second. This is because the weight of the drive system is so little. With a screw drive they just don't do that. Of couse, you welcome to try, I just want you to get a printing printer as fby spacexula - General
It's not that simple, can you show me all the videos of successful screw drive printers? But I agree to a point, there is a simple 3d printer in that design, it just needs some love.by spacexula - General
Cheapest/ way into the hobby right now if you don't have specialized skills is the Makerbot basic kit at $650. Next step up would be Mendelparts at $950. hard to beat the Makerbot kit unless you can get the plastic free.by spacexula - General
Have you contacted Camiel himself yet? He seems pretty transparent, I am sure he would just tell you. Also he is in IRC on a regular basis, just ping him there.by spacexula - General
RepRap printing is still an art, more than a science. Some people produce AMAZING printed part quality, and some produce 1/2 finished lumps, and everything in between. With our type of fabrication you are always going to have the ridges, no way around that, but the ridges can be made much smaller, to the point that they are only .1mm each, which is pretty small. Tetsujin, what part of the worlby spacexula - Job Shop: I need stuff made!
Yea Tesla has took over the design of the Brutis, I am working more on trying to get a functional Mendel Farm operational right now. He seems to be doing a good job so far.by spacexula - General New Machines Topics
You need objects you design to be manifold solid. PovRay, like Blender does not necessarily produce manifold solids (you can do it, but it will allow you to create unprintable objects pretty easily). Heekscad, FreeCAD. NeroCAD, OpensCAD, etc all give manifold solid objects 99% of the time, so skeinforge will play nice with it.by spacexula - 3D Design tools
Easiest way is to just feed the printed part to Pepakura and print it out on your desktop printer. You can even fold it up to have a 3d representation of your printed part.by spacexula - Reprappers
Post over in the Heekscad wiki, dan is helpful, or go into #cam on freenode ircby spacexula - 3D Design tools
Smaller nozzle hole requires more force to extrude, and requires a higher quality of plastic. .5 is a good middle ground, but .35 is better for gears.by spacexula - General
That set uses brass bushing for just this reason Thanks for the offer!by spacexula - Wanted
Looks like zero content of use, just an advert mill. Are you seeing something I am not? If it's just an advert mill this thread should likely be deleted.by spacexula - General
Where are you located Ablainey? We have folks all around the world, and most of us are pretty helpful. BTW rude is about the last thing this community is, as long as your niceby spacexula - General
Prusa is now just using 2 bolts 2 fender washers, 2 regular washers, and a 608 bearing in substitue of the RP part, it works fine. The slider is gone, just glue the bushings and clips to the board, as per reprap blogby spacexula - General
Yep only the US and Liberia to my knowledge, everyone else uses Metric. Funny thing is though I use mm to measure everything in RepRap, even when I am using Imperial fasterners. Makes it hard on the fastener shop when I go in and ask for a 5/16 bolt 15mm long. They are used to it now though.by spacexula - General
I have 2 imperial fastener versions sitting on my desk, if your going to print it, and live in the US (or Liberia) hold off for a few days till I get the production plates cleaned up. I put my 2 together for $50-$55 dollars and all locally sourced in the US.by spacexula - General
Before you take Mr. Smurf's advice, search this board for issues with the Lasercut kit, and the Techzone remix electronics. There might be a reason a Teckzone Remix full kit is $250/$450 less than the other two commercially available Mendel kits.by spacexula - Wanted
260 euro is high, but I think he is trying to slow demand. The parts seem to match when you look at his posted BOM and the standard Menel BOM, but I might have missed something.by spacexula - Wanted
Umm, if you got the wood instead of the plastic you really need to return it. The wood kit is problematic, and 1/2 the cost.by spacexula - General
Your really going to need to get a new stepper. Wades requires a pretty torquey NEMA 17 as it is. Your not running your Mendel off NEMA 14 are you?by spacexula - Reprappers
Looks like Dimkyy has decided to have over 10 of the 4mm acrylic lasercut Mendel that is posted on Thingiverse cut. To my knowledge this printer never got over it's z axis jamming issue and never actually printed. Does anyone know where documentation for this thing is? God knows we are going to the see the customers/victims of this one on here and in the IRC.by spacexula - General
andrew van ees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So was the commodore Amiga, where is it now. And > had Steve Jobs not retaken Apple computer where > would it be now. An going back 30 years the only > electric cars on the road where from Diy People, > there where 40 plus companies that supported them, > there are 2 Diy company's from that time thby spacexula - General
1 1/2 years ago most people, even the stong DIY types couldn't print a box reliably. We had 2 sources of plastics for the whole world, no kits, 1 set of electronics (gen3), and 2 repstrap companies, both very new. Now we have 2 RepRap companies, 4 Repstrap companies (soon to be 4-5), 4 viable electronics sets, two popular turn key software packages (repG and Redsnapper), 7-8 parts suppliers, anby spacexula - General
Open Source software and hardware has a very short shelf life. If we where to do this for you today, by Jan 15 2011 I will almost guarantee you that it will be out of date. RepG is going to have had at least 1-2 new version s in that time. Erik is working a 5d RepG. New Planitary Gear based extruders are on the horizon. Prusa Mendel is gaining on the Sells Mendel. The firmware is going in tby spacexula - General
My gen6 and motors are in the mail. I know several folks that have purchsed hardware from them. Camiel in IRC the guy that runs it, nice dude. Just go into IRC and you stand a 20% chance of seeing him.by spacexula - General
I wonder if botmill is getting their packages from Ultimachineby spacexula - General