RUG/Australia/Melbourne
Place/Time
Place
Most of the current members of the RUG meet up at the Connected Communities Hacker Space. There is nothing stating that you need to be a member of CCHS to be a member of the Melbourne RUG. It's just a convenient meeting place, plus CCHS are also interested in 3D printing and the Reprap project.
Connected Communities Hacker Space (CCHS) is currently run out of a garage, so you need to become a member of the CCHS mailing list and ask politely for details of the location. To become a proper member of CCHS costs AUD $50/year, however mailing list membership is free.
Time
The CCHS usually meet every Tuesday (6pm-9pm) with some exceptions, plus one weekend every month - See the CCHS website for more details.
Other Events
It's been suggested that we have a group catch-up sometime in February. Current date/time is Sunday the 20th of Feb between noon and 5pm. Contact Cefiar for the location.
Local Suppliers
Supplier information has now been moved to the Australian Suppliers page.
Members
- Cefiar
- Scorpia
- Myndale
- Auzze
- GregFrost (from Adelaide)
- rbritt
- noonan
- OscarF
- Joseph Barrows, Hobart
- Chip
- Please note
- Criteria for membership is as follows:
- Live or reside in Victoria, Australia (or nearby)
- Add your name to this wiki page
- There are no other criteria!
- Note
- As there are no Tasmanian or South Australian RUGs yet, Tasmanians and South Australians are welcome in MRUG.
Projects
Current projects that people are working on, broken down by owner:
- Mendel : Construction finished, but more issues with the hot end (complete rebuild time). Using Arduino Mega/RAMPS design.
- WolfStrap/Repstrap : Axes done. Stepper and belts mounted. Building electronics. Extruder has arrived, thanks Kliment Using Arduino Mega/RAMPS design.
- RAMPS Thermocouple : Hooking up a thermocouple to a RAMPS board using a MAX6675.
- CCHS
- Mendel : Assembling of printed and electronic parts for construction. CCHS has access to a Makerbot Cupcake, and has been steadily producing parts. A number of CCHS members have donated other parts (circuit boards, electronic components, rods/fasteners, etc). Plan is currently to use an Arduino Mega/RAMPS design due to the components that have been donated (now partially constructed). Cefiar is currently the team leader for this project at CCHS. Details of the project also maintained on the CCHS 3DPrinting page.
- Mendel : RepRap fully built, currently testing and calibrating the custom electronics. Maintaining a build blog as I go along.
- Huxley : Finshed building, In need of some new parts.
- Prusa : Finshed building and still setting up, but can print.
- DYI CNC Mill : Starting to collect parts to buid a small CNC drill mill/Routor. Main object is to have a CNC platform that can drill PCb and mill timber using a routor.
- LaserCut Mendel : Purchased, built, set to work and improved with self-printed parts.
- Broken Heart Gear Cluster : Printed the first version. Making improvements for a better one. Looking for someone to improve the model of the heart shape.
- Kinetic Horse : This looks awesome and I want to print one. Just looking into mechanical linkage design at this stage.
- Heater Block For Glass Nozzle : Now that I have made a heater block that looks like it will work i'm designing a Wades that this will mount to.
- Mendel : Parts on order. Using the Arduino Mega/RAMPS design and most likely polyurethane cast plastic parts.
- GranuleExtruder : Have attempted to construct a HDPE granular extruder using an auger drill bit. More info on this build blog
- Is currently designing and building a new repstrap named the Gunstrap
- Big Mendel : Think of a Mendel that is over 3ft per triangle side and using M12 rod. That's what he's building. Frame is assembled.
- Old Tile Hot End : Trying old tiles in place of PEEK on the new thermal barrier.
- LaserCut Mendel : Started construction of X axis and Extruder.
- LaserCut Mendel : Purchased; awaiting delivery.
