Universal Pen Holder and Touch Probe Tool Head Table of Contents Introduction Having read and been inspired by Homebrew Touch Probe, The "One Penny" Touch Probe, ...
The Bits from Bytes Cartesian Robot The Bits From Bytes instructions for assembling their lasercut Darwin bot are available here. Main.AdrianBowyer 28 Jul 2008 ...
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Magnetic Rotary Encoder v1.0 Overview This is an advanced, surface mount board. It requires steady hands and patience to solder. Don't worry though, You Can Do It ...
Arduino Breakout Shield v1.3 Overview The Arduino Breakout Shield is a shield that plugs into an Arduino and provides all the Arduino pins as screw terminals. It ...
PWM Driver v1.1 Overview This board is designed to allow you to control high power devices that only have a single polarity. Things like heaters, fans, solenoids ...
send.py is "glue" for sending a skeinforge-generated gcode file to your arduino-based reprap. It is a command-line only utility, starting it from your GUI of choice ...
Introduction Skeinforge is a tool chain to forge a gcode skein for a model. The tool chain starts with slice shape, which slices the model into layers, then the layers ...
Darwin Part Development This interim page is designed to host the developments required to achieve Darwin's replication. It tracks only the cartesian robot, not the ...
Installing the RepRap software under Linux or Unix RepRap uses a large number of open-source software packages for development, and quite a few when it runs. This ...
Managing Your Filament The 3mm filament used in the Mk2 extruder is generally extruded for us from CAPA or PLA by friendly companies that make plastic welding rod ...
Assembly of a Toby Borland Original PlyRap Introduction These are the build instructions for a plywood Version 1.0 Darwin RepRap. This is a duplicate of the one exhibited ...
Temperature Sensor v1.1 Overview This board allows you to use a thermistor to measure the temperature of something. It is designed to be used to measure things in ...
Drawing and Plotting Head Introduction A drawing and plotting head may be an excellent second head to produce. It actually requires fewer boards than the extruder ...
Arc Compensation Reprapper Nophead has pointed out that when the RepRap extrude head moves it lays down material equally on either side of its centre line. But when ...
Pictures of RepRap for press (or any other) use Click on each image to download a high-resolution version. All the images on this page (and any others from the RepRap ...
Extruder improvements and alternatives Under construction. Direct drive. This is a replacement for the flexible drive. It is simpler, and less likely to wear out ...
The Thermoplast Extruder version 1.1 Table of contents Introduction The thermoplast extruder is the central part of the RepRap machine. It takes a 3mm diameter filament ...
Darwin Design Fault Log Hi, if there's any design faults you've discovered on the way to building your Darwin, please log them here... Victim Problem Status Adrian ...
Thermocouple Sensor v1.0 Overview This is a simple board for measuring temperature. It uses an AD595 chip to make thermocouple measurements easy. The AD595 amplifies ...
Opto Isolator v1.0 Overview The Opto Isolator board allows you to pass signals between two circuits without having to connect them electrically. They are great for ...
DC Motor Driver v1.1 Overview This board allows you to control up to 2 small DC motors individually. Each motor can be driven at a maximum of 750 mA. It supports ...
Arduino Breakout Shield v1.2 Overview The Arduino Breakout Shield is a shield that plugs into an Arduino and provides all the Arduino pins as screw terminals. It ...
Opto Endstop v1.0 Overview Darwin’s Cartesian axes all need a datum (also known as home position or end-stop) to reference their movements. At the start of each build ...
Stepper Motor Driver v1.1 Overview This board allows you to control one stepper motor, as well as receive input from two limit switches. It is based around the L297 ...
A RepRap has the potential to be converted to an electrochemical machine by equipping it with an electrochemical machining (ECM) tool head. With this tool head, it ...
Future Tool Ideas Polymer granule Extruder The advantage of a polymer granule extruder is, of course, that all thermoplastic polymers are available in bulk at very ...
A RepRap Universal Servo Controller Introduction If you are reading this, then you are potentially interested in either understanding how, or intend to actually use ...
Darwin Concept Improvements If you spot any things which are particularly awkward, have any ideas on a more efficient approach, or see any wasted opportunity please ...
RepRap software The RepRap software comes in two chunks: the code that runs in the microcontrollers in the RepRap machine itself, and the code that runs on the host ...
Arduino Based Electronics Overview Once you start putting electricity into your RepRap even at just 12 volts you have to take basic, common sense precautions to ...
The Bits from Bytes Polymer Extruder The STL files for this are available from the RepRap Subversion repository here, so you can print them in a RepRap machine. The ...
The Bits From Bytes version of RepRap The Bits From Bytes version of RepRap is available as a lasercut kit from the company Bits From Bytes. Go to the Bits From Bytes ...
Making the non-rapid-prototyped mechanical parts for the Version 1.1 extruder Introduction There are two main mechanical parts to the extruder: the heated barrel ...
Main.EdSells 07 Dec 2005 Design for RP manufacture on the Stratasys Dimension SUMMARY This page contains two features: 1) The download for the full 30-page manual ...
The RepRap host software. The code that runs on the computer controlling a RepRap machine is written in Java. You can find the Javadocs for it here and browse all ...
The RepRap Team Adrian Bowyer This guy is the man. Founder and leader of the RepRap project. (AB: Ahem! One of the advantages of a wiki is that one can dive in an ...
The RepRap Research Foundation The RepRap Research Foundation A non-profit source of RepRap components for researchers and developers. Other RepRap Sites RepRap ...
Adrian Bowyer giving a talk on RepRap to Pop!Tech 2007 in Camden, Maine. Pop!Tech is a yearly conference on technical issues of world concern and on the technical ...
RepRap Version 2.0 "Mendel" Introduction Mendel will be the next generation of RepRap machine, and it is currently under development. This web page will bring all ...
Make Your Own RepRap RepRap Version I "Darwin" The current standard RepRap machine is RepRap Version I "Darwin". Follow that link to get complete instructions on ...
RepRap Home Introduction What can it make? One page description Future Plans Main Blog Documentation Make your own RepRap Software Obtaining Parts RepStrap machines ...
RepRap makes its first complete working replicated copy! See the main and builders' blogs for more news. Adrian Bowyer (left) and Vik Olliver (right) with a parent ...
Press and other articles You can find RepRap's entry in Wikipedia at this link. High-resolution pictures for use in press articles about RepRap (or for anything else ...
Name: Andy Kirby Email: andy@kirbyand.co.uk Company Name: Kirby Co Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom Comment: If sense were common everyone would ...
PlyRap A RepRap or more accurately RepStrap machine made to resemble an original Darwin machine but using Components made from plywood. the overall objective being ...
Plywood?! Yes, plywood. Plywood cut with frickin' lasers. Toby Borland did the initial work, and modified that to be broadly compatible with Darwin parts. So you ...
Documentation Machines RepRap definition of a 'RepRap' machine RepStrap definition of a 'RepStrap' machine RepRap "Darwin" the current RepRap machine RepStrap ...
RepRap Toolheads Thermoplast Extruder v1.1 This is the hot center of the machine. It can melt a variety of plastics and extrude them out in a thin stream to form ...
Thermoplast Extruder v1.1 Bill of Materials The parts of the RepRap Thermoplast Extruder Version 1.1. The AoI files for all the extruder's rapid prototyped parts ...