We have reached another milestone in our RepRap Projekt. Our RepStrap finished printing its first child. The Prusa Mendel v2 is assembled and working. Last two challenges had to be overcome: Because the RepStrap still has no heated printbed the Prusa x-carriage had to be made from PLA. Which is not the best choice when [...]
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Tagged: Open Hardware, Open Source, RepRap
Our RepStrap nearly finished printing all neccessary parts for its first child, a Prusa Mendel v2. Only the Extruder is missing. Yesterday Jonas made a short video of the RepStrap printing. The Printer should primarily serve the purpose to make a ‘real’ RepRap-Prusa from printed parts. Since I managed to get reasonably useful (and mechanically robust) print results, step by step set of parts for a RepRap-Prusa was completed. Further calibration and optimization of [...]
Categories: RepRap
Tagged: Open Hardware, Open Source, RepRap