The cheap reprap printer (a short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper) project is working towards creating a cheap and easy-to-use rapid prototype machine that can construct plastic products after downloading a detailed description form a computer. The software will be free under the GNU General Public License. The printer can build any 3D printer model that one can think of – from flower pots, to vehicle replacement parts . Future programs include expanding to a wide variety of materials: ceramics, wax, metals, etc.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The RepRap Simpson Revolution
Here is a thing that looks like it won’t work. When its designs were first introduced to the RepRap forum/community, some members immediately began speculating that it lacked the sturdiness to complete a print. With no frame and with heavy pulleys making it top-heavy, the Simpson 3D printer looked like it would twist and bend and throw plastic all over the place, possibly even fall over. But the RepRap community is a strong one and members do like to help in the creation of new RepRap variants; so the machine’s creator, Nicholas Seward, was not without friends.
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