Anyone here interested in RepRap? DIY-Rapid Prototypers

[personalmgt]

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Well I got bored and I went to the TPB website, I saw this RepRap thingy flashing in their website and I got this:

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can use it to make another and give that one to a friend...

Sure thing its a framework which looks interesting but boring. But hey, this thing right here is the future of Physical Object Sharing. For example, I have managed to prototype a special form of a rubiks cube with RepRap and I want it to send to you. Instead of sending the "Actual" object to you by parcel services, You have a RepRap machine, so I can just send to you the 3d file of the prototype I just made and its up to you to print the prototype in your RepRap machine.

Right now, the stable RepRap machine is the RepRap Version 1 "Darwin". It can rapid-prototype almost everything. The version 2, which happens to be in beta right now and is open for everyone to use. The version 2 allows you to rapid-prototype objects with three-dimensional electrical circuitry inside mechanical parts!

Here's a link of some things this machine made: ItemsMade < Main < Reprap

They have managed to make a flyswat, a pair of child's shoes, a water filter insert, a door handle and many more!

Advantages: It's nearly "FREE" to make one. If you have a friend who owns a RepRap machine then he/she can just make the parts of the RepRap machine for you!

Disadvantages: when I said "nearly free", that means you have to spend a little money. But seriously, who cares?

Right now I might just go into a hardware store and pick up some of the parts so I can start tinkering with it. Who's with me?

[hotdawg]

bro ganahan kaayu ko mo butingting ug mga things,but pila sad kaha ma sehll out nato ani? ballpark figure lng.

[personalmgt]

I didn't get your question well, pero here are some answers:

For me the RepRap machine should be free and it shouldn't be sold. Because if it happens then kalaban nimo ang entire open source community of the world :P

-or-

Lets say mamaligya lang ka ug door handles and stuff probably anything plastic then people still don't know about this, then you could just be rich big time. Investment ra nimo ani para sa raw items kay kato rang formable plastic pellets(IIRC) which we tend to ignore sa mga hardware stores. Barato ra kaayo na nga raw materials.






The future is here!

[hotdawg]

sorry for the confusion bro, what i meant was in makig the reprap machine bah,pila kaha ato magasto?

[personalmgt]

Hey man, there's a parts lister shown in the reprap website. Para naa kay reference kung unsa nga parts gyud ang kelangan, better read the how-to

Also, if i recall correctly, $2 per centimeter square man daw ang sa machine. Medyo gasto but reprap is waaay ridiculously cheaper than any other prototyping machines out there. Ang naka-ayo aning reprap is that it can replicate the machine itself, unlike other prototyping machines which costs millions and millions but can hardly even replicate itself.

[noykulas]

available tanan parts diri sa phils. kung nahan ko mag protype ana nga machine.. cool kaau.. kay 3D printer..

[mlhl@7]

Bro, I think this is ok.. can I join with you or maybe i'll do my own.

[hotdawg]

how about mag himo ta ug usa bro then from there mag replicate nlng ta para sa ato.mag share lng ta sa gasto.

[personalmgt]

Hey guys,

Pwede kaayog maghimo tag usa then i-share lang nato dayon. Anyone here who can make the first one could just be the first guy to ever own a reprap machine in the country. Dili lang ko pasalig na ma-complete ni nako. I might order in the internet some parts na ma-kuha ra nimo by a reprap machine. But then lisud ang kwarta. If anyone has the effort to build this one then please post here. Its going to be music in our ears if we ever hear na naka-himo mug usa.

Also, this is the raw material na gamiton for the plastic models(Polycaprolactone):
Polymorph < Main < Reprap

[COMCAM]

this is great bro. ingna unya ko if naka himo naka. Id like to see your prototype