Last night I moved my goldfish aquarium to my new home. During reassembly of the pump a small clip that secures the sealing bracket on my “EHEIM eco pro” aquarium filter broke. I had to quickly fix this since the fishes were waiting in their transport container and urgently needed some fresh and circulated water. [...]
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Tagged: aquarium, household, Open Hardware, Open Source, repair, replacement, RepRap
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 [...]
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Tagged: Open Hardware, Open Source, RepRap
Well, that’s awesome. I have never seen a 3D printer live before – and now this bootstrapped contraption on my desk is fabricating three-dimensional objects from plastic. Absolutely fascinating. Time passed quickly last week, so i’ll try to give a brief summary of the final steps to a working RepStrap 3D printer. When our RAMPS-board [...]
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Tagged: Open Hardware, Open Source, RepRap
It must have been about a year ago that I (again) stumbled across the RepRap project. If you ask Jonas, this was probably the key moment, when it grabbed me to build my own 3D printer. Since I can remember we have dreamed up technical projects together that failed to realize due to an absence of a full featured mechanical workshop. But being able to make free-form objects from plastic right on the desk, that changes everything. A few months later I had read deeply enough - and Jonas infected. We started [...]
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Tagged: Open Hardware, Open Source, RepRap