What license is the hardware under?by jebba - Controllers
The latest files for the TAZ 5 are here: Our development directory for unreleased products is here: Build instructions are here: -Jeffby jebba - General Mendel Topics
QuoteIceman086 I have used a Taz at our hacker space and we have had nothing but issues with it for 2 months. It is now working but we had to change the hot end out completely to a J head. Even now that the head is working, the printer screws up every time its moved around the space due to the frame not being rigid enough and it requires re calibration. Can you let me know which hackerspace thisby jebba - General
Hey, * You can use all the files you want, they are all free/libre/open. * When you sell/distribute your machines, you must include the source code as well, *from your own archive*. You can't just point them at our archive, you need to make your own copy. * Any changes you make must be documented. * The copyrights must remain in place, typically "Aleph Objects, Inc.". You can update the filesby jebba - Reprappers
Front Range Open Hardware Symposium with Congressman Jared Polis April 24th at 6pm | The Studio Boulder, 3550 Frontier Ave #2, Boulder, CO This event is to educate the general public and Congressman Polis about open source hardware and view open hardware activities happening on Colorado’s Front Range. If you would like to showcase your open source hardware at the event, and need a table, pleaby jebba - Colorado, Denver RepRap User Group
QuoteTraumflugSounds good! What's your plan when "the chinese" come around and sell your desings at half the price, taking most of your customers away? Do you say "thank you, goal achieved" and "let us go more into design, so they can make even more copies"? Yes, something like that. Look at all the Buda clones out there. It has been cloned in the USA, Argentina, Spain, China, etc. The E3D hotenby jebba - General
QuotethejollygrimreaperI'm not sure i get this argument, to me if you have a project and the source is open and available to anyone who wants it then it's opensource if the source to the project is unavailable then it can't be called opensource , to me this has always been a pretty simple argument Actually, it is a pretty simple argument and has been solved in the software communities 10+ yearsby jebba - General
QuoteTraumflug QuotejebbaLulzBot has always done things open, and continues to do so. That's nice and doesn't contradict my opinion at all. The question is, why do you do things open? Very likely not to give the copiers a headstart over your own production. Instead I think you do it to be attractive in a market where the "open source" tag counts very much. As such, it's a marketing move. No, weby jebba - General
This other group just had 108 printers. We beat them by one! -Jeffby jebba - General
QuoteTraumflugFor businesses, this "open source" tag was always and still is a pure marketing tag. LulzBot has always done things open, and continues to do so. I believe we even push it further than most have before... We release our files while they are under development. Our shared internal development directory syncs to the public every hour. Just sayin'.by jebba - General
QuoteAll files are released according to the following license unless specified differently in the file or directory: CC-by-NC: It also isn't even under an Open Source license. A -NC license isn't open source, per Open Source Institute, Open Source Hardware Association, et. al.by jebba - General
Hi! At Aleph Objects, Inc. we believe we set a world record yesterday for the most 3D printers running simultaneously at 109. You can see the video here: 109 LulzBots printing simultaneously Let us know if you know of any that are bigger. -Jeffby jebba - General
The next generation TAZ BOM is here: It isn't 100% complete yet. -Jeffby jebba - General Mendel Topics
Quotemyohmy11 I might be wrong but I thought to be a RepRap the printer needs to be able to replicate parts of itself? TAZ should be considered a RepStrap instead maybe? The TAZ can print around 30 of its own parts.by jebba - General Mendel Topics
QuoteC*H*U*D I was able to head up to see the Lulzbot crew last week. It was pretty cool, but I was hoping to buy an extruder and that was not to be. What extruder did you want to buy? Thanks, -Jeffby jebba - Colorado, Denver RepRap User Group
Quotemyohmy11 The TAZ is not strictly speaking a RepRap, but it has similar mechanical structure as the Prusa i3. How is TAZ not a RepRap? Or would you exclude the Prusa Mendel, MendelMax, etc. as well? Just curious. -Jeffby jebba - General Mendel Topics
We got a lot of plastic in. It was all 1kg reels. Black wasn't on that order, unfortunately. So we have a lot more stock, but not in black. We will be getting more in stock in 1kg. We will likely stock the 5lb in black, red, and natural too. Sorry we're out of stock. -Jeffby jebba - General
I don't know for certain, but I think Ultimachine uses Village Plastic. That is what we (LulzBot) use as well for black ABS. If we introduce more plastics, like another ABS black from Esun or Prusa or another manufacturer, it will have a new part number and name, so you'll be able to use the exact same plastic as before and tell it apart from the new stuff. -Jeffby jebba - General
This blog has a whole series of posts about printing cases: -Jeffby jebba - General
oManual looks interesting, I hadn't seen it before. Instructables is proprietary. I'm not sure about "open hardware hub" (new to me too), but it also appears proprietary at a glance. OHAI-kit is a bit different than just instructions, as it is also tracking times, so data can be collected from the assembly line. We don't mean for OHAI-kit to be an instructables-like contender, it serves a differeby jebba - General
Quotetjb1I really don't see how it can be a rendering issue when it is pulling all the data from the G-Code. Your rendering looks different from crispy1's rendering in different software. And it is different from what I got viewing it 2D in pronterface. There are other examples in this forum of renderings not corresponding to the gcode. It happens.by jebba - General
We at Aleph Objects, Inc. (makers of LulzBot) have released a "visual work instructions" web application as free software. Code is here: You can see the software in action here, with TAZ assembly line instructions: We also have all sorts of manufacturing docs here: Happy hacking, -Jeffby jebba - General
This is more related to slic3r settings than the printer itself. Do a narrower extrusion width. Also, there is a setting for the top layer--make that very fine and the top layer will look *awesome*. There is a recent release of slic3r with a lot of improvements too, you may want to check that out.by jebba - Slic3r
For the TAZ, we have uploaded our manufacturing assembly line visual work instructions here: We have also made the OHAI-kit (Open Hardware Assembly Instructions) free software: -Jeffby jebba - General
Quotecrispy1 QuoteI rendered it with your .ini and I didn't get the holes you show in your render. When I preview it in 2D pronterface, I don't get the holes either. Are you sure it isn't a rendering problem? When tjbl used some other program to preview the code he saw the same artifacts I did... So it could still be a rendering issue then.by jebba - General
I rendered it with your .ini and I didn't get the holes you show in your render. When I preview it in 2D pronterface, I don't get the holes either. Are you sure it isn't a rendering problem?by jebba - General
After going through this with crispy in #reprap, it works fine when he sets his extrusion_width to the default value 0 (auto).by jebba - General
download.lulzbot.com = code to products as released. Basically static once pushed out for a model. devel.lulzbot.com = any development before or after a printer is released. It is a moving target. -Jeffby jebba - Object repositories
FWIW, wholesale HIPS is less than ABS, IIRC.by jebba - General