Reprap is a great idea, and someday will likely be possible, but you can only do so much with current printing methods. I'm all for making printers with what you have and as cheap as you can, but the reason printers have moved the directions they have is because you can only get so much precision with cobbled together junk you find. I have seen someone try to print V-slot, it was. Prusa i3 Folger (A lot of the parts are wrong, boring !)

Last edit at 04:22AM by Zavashier.Ĭollective intelligence emerges when a group of people work together effectively. Note the most builded repraps follow this principle.Įdited 1 time(s). The guy who will be smart enough to make a reprap works with the essential components and minimal printed/plastic parts is the guy. Everybody's up to add-on to existing machines, with various results, but only few people work on simplifying. There's hundreds of reprap versions but how many of them are doing better than the original concepts ? To me the last evolution of repraps is the Morgan.

Through, thingiverse is plenty of over complicated parts, and a lot of them are useless.

Any one can be an hobby-engineer, and that's great. To me, the reprap concept is more about the home mini factory for all. Actualy, the best extruders are cnc machined aluminium, not plastic ones. And there's no need to print them, they can be machined or hand crafted too. Note the plastic parts could be made out of any material but plastic : aluminium, steel, wood, ceramics, terracotta. By the way, the most important parts are not printed : electronics, hotend, guideways. In volume only some prints more than 50% of their parts but it aint necessarily so, even if the self replicating machine concept is exciting. The Repraps are far away to print most of their parts.

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