User:Tony749

Reprap vitamin kits from Sydney Australia

Hi I'm Tony,

When I started building my Prusa I found that buying all the parts was a significant project in itself. It was difficult to find parts in Sydney at a reasonable price so I started Oz Reprap Supplies to make reprap more available to builders in Sydney.

A bit about me. My background is Computer Science with an interest in robotics and gadgets.

My first robot was called blinky, he ran off the parallel port of a PC through some shift registers and buffers. Blinky was tethered to the PC by a parallel cable and could only drive around in circles and blink LEDs. I wanted so much more for blinky - arms, vision, and a radio link to free him from the cable. But as a poor student I didn't have the money to do much with the bot. Then I was too busy working and blinky lived in a cardboard box for the last 6 years. Now I've got the space and resources to get back into robotics, building a robot that can print robot parts was a natural place to start. So here I am. The only problem now is that reprap is so addictive that Blinky is still in his box.