Reprap Forum

General

General discussions. For specific printers / electronics / fabrication methods / softwares, please see other sections.

Reprappers

People building or using RepRaps.

Developers

If you're reading this, you're a developer. Please join: http://lists.reprap.org/mailman/listinfo/reprap-dev

Bounties

Contributing to Open Source Development with Bounties

Printing

Printing issues ...

Safety & Best Practices

Safety...

RepRap magazine

Collecting and discussing themes for our magazine.

Kartik M. Gada Humanitarian Innovation Prize

While the entire forum is for RepRap research and development, chat, [[Robots]] and other fun things you can make with RepRaps, you may want to announce and discuss Gada Prize ideas and projects and thereby form up teams.

Object repositories

3D-objects - where to find or store?

Let's design something! (I've got an idea ...)

Robots, children's blocks, wooden clocks, its all good! Here's my idea and here's the [[page]] on RepRap's wiki where we can log in and click "edit".

Look what I made!

Here's what I made, here's a photo, and here's a link to the [[page]] on RepRaps wiki!

Mechanics

Discuss any sort of mechanical stuff here: positioning systems, gears, extruding methods, etc.

Robots!

Robo-one (30cm bipeds), tiny maze runners and hulking industrial robots, it's all cool! Here's my robot and here's the [[page]] on RepRap's wiki where you can make one too!

3D Scanners, Book Scanners, and Optics

Building a SplineScanner or BookScanner? Using one, made it better? Your RepRap is a scanner? You just use a (video)camera to scan things? You make your own telescopes? Talk about it here.

3D Design tools

3D Design tools, Art of Illusion, Blender, CAD tools, etc. What are you using? What are your favorite tutorials?

Administration, Announcements, Policy

Praise, questions, complaints, etc. go here. Want to change our policy? This is where we calmly and thoughtfully discuss these matters at length.

Sandbox

Try and play here.

CoreXY Systems

Darwin

Darwin was the first RepRap, and people still make them. Out of plastic, and wood, and metal, and ...

Delta Robots and Stewart platform

http://reprap.org/wiki/Delta

Extruded Aluminum

http://reprap.org/wiki/Extruded_Aluminum

FoldaRap

http://reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap and her younger sister Mondrian http://reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap2

Huxley

http://reprap.org/wiki/Huxley Huxley is like Mendel, only smaller and cuter.

Mendel and Prusa Mendel

Mendel is the cool new printer! http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel

Mendel90

http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel90

MetalicaRap

A self-replicating metal powder printer: http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap

New RepStraps and Post Mendel

FlatPackRepStraps, Deltas Robots, Donuts and Eiffel/RBS. Better than Mendel? Maybe. This is where all the action is.

Ormerod

RepRapPro's Ormerod http://reprap.org/wiki/Ormerod

Polar bots and Robot Arms

http://reprap.org/wiki/Polar & http://reprap.org/wiki/Robot_Arm

Prism

http://reprap.org/wiki/Prism

Smart_Rap

http://reprap.org/wiki/Smartrap_mini A new printer near first release, still in development ... Its main goals are ease/speed of assembly, low cost and modularity (being an easy basement for new designs).

Tantillus

http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Tantillus

Competitions

RepLab Working Group

Self-replicating Fab Lab -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/RepLab

Tissue Engineering

Deposition of living biological tissue.

Polymer Working Group

Plastics, Epoxies, Resins, Photopolymerization, etc - Research, Development, Use, and Analysis -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Plastics

Plastic Extruder Working Group

Plastic Extruders, mostly - > http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Extruder

Paste Extrusion Working Group

(Contents under pressure) -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Paste_Extrusion

Shape Deposition Manufacturing Working Group

http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Shape_Deposition_Manufacturing

Casting and Moldmaking Working Group

Casting -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Casting Moldmaking -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Molds

Powder Printing and Selective Laser Sintering

You lay down a layer of powder, you fuse particles, you repeat.

Wire and Thread Embedded Extrusion

Add a new print head to the Reprap, capable of laying wire/thread materials directly from a spool into a printed part!

CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping

Have you tried bolting a dremel or router to your RepRap? Can you engrave and drill PCBs? Or cut wood, or ... steel? (Or do you have a commercial mill or CNC router?)

Laser Cutter Working Group

http://reprap.org/wiki/Laser_Cutter

Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)

Here we'll try to put stuff onto boards and bake them. With robots! And toaster ovens! And we'll try to build other fabrication workcells and connect them together.

Generation N+1 Electronics Working Group

Guys? Gals? All of you are devs. This is development. Use http://lists.reprap.org/mailman/listinfo/reprap-dev

Electronics

Anything electronics related: microprocessors, motor and head driver circuitry, Eagle issues, soldering tips, etc.

RAMPS Electronics

Support for the quite nice RAMPS Electronics http://reprap.org/wiki/RAMPS

Sanguino(lolu)

The Sanguino is an extension of the popular Arduino board designed and developed by Zach Hoeken et.al. for the RepRap Research Foundation.

Stepper Motors

So, I took apart this printer ...

Servo Motors (and theory), DC Motors, Gear Motor

Also generators and spinny electromotive esoterica.

Experimental and Hobby

Building an electronic art project? Or a software radio? Think blue LEDs are cool? Are you a circuit bender? Discuss it here.

Firmware - mainstream and related support

Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future

Experimental

OpenSCAD

Repetier

RepRap Host

Java - everyone loves it and it works well everywhere. Maybe.

RepSnapper

http://reprap.org/wiki/RepSnapper

Skeinforge

Slic3r

EMC2

Mach3

STEP-NC

Crowdfunding Projects Announcements

Forum for all announcements about kickstarters, indiegogo, etc. Of course the projects have to be somewhat related to RepRap. p.s. Crowdfunding is gambling - RepRap.org isn't responsible for scams and bad deals.

Plastic RepRap Parts for Sale

"I just printed out a set of plastic Mendel Parts, who wants to buy them? p.s. RepRap.org isn't responsible for scams and bad deals.

Vitamin Kit for Sale

You have a set of Mendel Parts? You have a benchtop mill? I will sell you a "Vitamin Kit".

Jobs for people with RepRap skills

If you are an employer and you need people who know RepRap, you can post job advertisements and links to job advertisements here. Please give potential employees links to a route (such as an online form on your company's website) to allow them to reply to you directly and in confidence, rather than getting them simply to post public replies here. Reprappers: the appearance of a job advertisement here does not mean that the RepRap Project endorses the employer. Do your research before replying to advertisements.

"Hello, I'm a designer." "I'm an engineer."

Hello. I need a something designed. For money.

GPL, industrial secret. It's all good.

For Sale

p.s. RepRap.org isn't responsible for scams and bad deals.

Wanted

p.s. RepRap.org isn't responsible for scams and bad deals.

Job Shop: I make stuff!

p.s. RepRap.org isn't responsible for scams and bad deals.

Job Shop: I need stuff made!

p.s. RepRap.org isn't responsible for scams and bad deals.

Request a Local RepRap User Group

If you don't see your town, request here and the admins will create a forum for you.

Arabic RepRap User Group

العربية RUG - http://reprap.org/wiki/RUG/Arabic

RepRap Usergroup - Argentina

http://reprap.org/wiki/RUG/Argentina - Lista de proveedores, Reuniones, y ayuda al futuro RepRapper

RepRap Usergroup - Ecuador

Brazil, São Paulo RUG

Colombia RepRap User Group

Grupo de Usuarios RepRap en Colombia

RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

(RepRap en Français)

RepRap en Español

India RUG

भारतRUG

Israel, Tel Aviv RepRap User Group

Mexico RepRap User Group

New Zealand RepRap User Group

http://reprap.org/wiki/RUG/New_Zealand Discussions on suppliers, meetups, and how to keep Keas from eating your extruder heads.

RepRap User Group - Paraguay

Portuguese RUG

(língua portuguesa, Portugal, etc. Brazil has another forum.)

Russia RepRap User Group

Группа Пользователей RepRap

Turkish RepRap Usergroup

RepRap Usergroup - Uruguay

RepRap Usergroup - Venezuela