My Reprap Build

[BackyardWorkshop]

Hey guys! Jus tjoining the Reprap club

just finished building a Prusa Mendel and having some fun printing parts

what a blast and totally different than making something on the CNC

I will probably be working on making some sort of Repstrap too with parts I can mill on the CNC machine to make it easier to make a 3D printer - but that's jsut an idea so far

anyway check out my pictures and a few videos here

RepRap - 3D Printer

[Dean448]

Great progress and good looking machine.

I'm running a mendel design on PLA at a slower rate then you... but your print looks good.

The only suggestion I have is to lengthen the retract distance to reduce blobing when the machine pauses. I think I'm running about a 3mm retract distance where the large gear turns backwards about a third of a revolution.

[Joe S.]

Your site has perhaps the best photograph of a completed RepRap i have seen to date.
I am getting the bug, but I can't do anything with those stl files in bobcad as far as gleaning dimensions, so I have chosen to roll my own, being far too CHEEP CHEEP CHEAP to buy a kit.
I am leaning towards using Roman's lini stepper drivers as I have 3 of them already, and Thanks to him and James the source code to make more.
If anything I said is inaccurate, please set the record straight, Thank you.

[BackyardWorkshop]

Thanks Joe!

I consider myself pretty cheap too, so i understand

I looked into what they call a "repstrap" machine - which is making a reprap like printer without the printed parts - and I still look into that from time to time - but there's the Ultimaker and makerbot 3d printers that are kinda like this - if you wanted something to look at