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2026 119

  1. RepRapMicron 103 - How RepRapMicron Does Microns
  2. Thinking of Making PIKA A Hole Lot Simpler
  3. RepRapMicron Build Videos Starting To Drop
  4. RepRapMicron Double Height Layer Slicer Mod
  5. Chonky Boi Pantograph (much neater)
  6. Attempting Pantograph Motion
  7. RepRapMicron And Slightly More Complex Flexures
  8. RepRapMicron Thin Lines And Extruded Text Test
  9. Benchy Redo
  10. Video of Micron-Printed Mechanism Moving
  11. Visible Light Micrograph Of Krapton Print
  12. Ref: PrusaSlicer Config for UV Fibre printing
  13. Not There Yet But Improved
  14. Prusaslicer bug in Marlin?
  15. So Where Does The Fibre Print Go Wrong?
  16. RepRapMicron Single Narrow Beam
  17. Built STLs For RepRapMicron UV Fibre Print Head
  18. UV LED Prusaslicer filter and LED/fibre interconnect models for RepRapMicron
  19. RepRapMicron Success! - A decent 500μm (1/2mm) Benchy
  20. 3DP Resin Improvements With UV Fibre RepRapMicron Head
  21. Update UV Source For RepRapMicron Fibre Deposition
  22. Nail Art vs 3DP Resin
  23. UV Thin Film Setting Analysis
  24. Repeat of "Hello, World" with UV fibre fabrication and animation
  25. RepRapMicron Benchy!
  26. Square and Hello World, but not like I intended.
  27. Square Tip Test, Blunt Ogive, actual squares, Take 9
  28. Small Square Tip test, Take 8
  29. Small Square Tip Preparations, Take 7
  30. Small Square Tip Preparation, Take 6
  31. Small Square Findings Etched Tips, Take 5
  32. Small Square Findings and more breakage, Take 4
  33. Probe Flexures With 0.1mm Layer Build
  34. Small Square Findings and wreckage, Take 3
  35. Small Square, Take 2 ...
  36. Recovering and Prepping a RepRapMicron Side
  37. First Square Attempt. Goal - Perfecting the method
  38. Stacking Squares Without Slicer on RepRapMicron - The Experimental Plan
  39. The Sub-Millimeter Challenges
  40. Under The Binocular Microscope
  41. Protection For Touch Probe Tips
  42. Using Raking Light To View Resin Droplets
  43. Update on mailing list and human factor
  44. RepRapMicron Mailing List Update
  45. Touch Probe Documentation Online
  46. The Mystery Image
  47. PIKA V0.02 Design Updates
  48. RepRapMicron Leveling As It Happens (or not...)
  49. "H[indistinct] World" At 5 Microns on RepRapMicron PIKA
  50. RepRapMicron Making Too Tiny Dots
  51. So, What If The RepRapMicron Touch Probe Had A point?
  52. RepRapMicron PIKA Flag Test
  53. RepRapMicron Surface Sensing: Do You Have A Flag?
  54. RepRapMicron Droplet Deposition 4K Imaging Test (video)
  55. Microscope Pole Documentation Now Up
  56. New Probe Levelling Reduces Subtracive Dot Size
  57. Microscope Pole Clamp Changes
  58. New Stupid Simple Probe Zero Theory
  59. RepRapMicron New Microscope Comparison
  60. SuperHouse Livestream Supplemental 10-May-2026
  61. NEMA14 in a PIKA RepRapMicron
  62. Probe Fabrication And Assemby Docs Dropped
  63. FPath: Embedded Commands
  64. Probe Tip Etching Documentation In Progress
  65. Almost Automated Probe Shaping - Twins!
  66. Automated Probe Etch, Probe 13
  67. Test 2 Probe Etched By Hand
  68. RepRapMicron Etching Its Own Probe, Test 2
  69. Possible No-Dip Print Probe?
  70. Hypochlorite Bleach Etch A Bit Too Enthusiastic
  71. Probe Etching Using The RepRapMicron Itself To Dip [Video]
  72. Etching Probe With Sodium Hypochlorite Bleach
  73. Time To Make New Probes
  74. PIKA RepRapMicron Motor Mount Nut Slots Moved
  75. RepRapMicron Nut Tool
  76. PIKA V0.02 Assembly Instructions Online
  77. Triangular Leveling on PIKA V0.02
  78. Well, PIKA V0.02 fits together at least
  79. PIKA V0.02 Improvements
  80. Bed Levelling Continues. Potential new Stage
  81. Tried another probe - it works
  82. Sudden problems finding height, new levelling code
  83. Successful backlash test on new Flexure Coupling for X Axis
  84. Tweak to the Flexure Coupling
  85. *Blog Moderator
  86. RepRapMicron PIKA Refined XY Backlash Tests
  87. PIKA Preliminary Backlash Test, X Axis
  88. PIKA Test Grid after fixing X Axis Driver
  89. PIKA Test Grid
  90. Photo Dump Of PIKA V0.01 assembly
  91. Original "Hello World" pixel code running on PIKA
  92. Levelling PIKA RepRapMicron's Bed To 4 microns
  93. PIKA V0.01, More Rigid And Simpler
  94. 2 Years - Happy Birthday μRepRap
  95. PIKA - Upgrades following first attempt
  96. PIKA - First Build
  97. Goodbye MAUS, Hello PIKA
  98. RepRapMicron Mailing List
  99. Successful PIKA Core Print
  100. The Front Fell Off
  101. Why PIKA Matters
  102. PIKA With Relative Axis Driver Sizes
  103. Introducing PIKA - Print In-place Kinematic Assembly
  104. RepRapMicron Z Probe Files Now On Printables
  105. Z Axis Component Changes Imminent (updated)
  106. World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
  107. Post-Conference RepRapMicron Interactions
  108. Presentation From Everything Open 2026
  109. Full RepRapMicron V0.05 Axis Driver Instructions Available
  110. Accidental Stress Test Of Backlash Band Hooks
  111. V0.05 Axis Driver Assembly Hint - Band Retention
  112. Back From The Land of Oz
  113. MAUS 'L' V0.05 On Holiday In Canberra
  114. Gold and Joysticks
  115. Exploring Layer Failure Modes With Wrong Starting Height
  116. Kinky Probe, Gripping Things, And New Foil Slides
  117. New Optics For The Lab
  118. Poor Results From Gold-ish Leaf (Dutch Guilding)
  119. The Great Pyramid Of Phail

2025 159

  1. Microscope Slide Gimbal
  2. More successful folded structure.
  3. FPath: Algorithmic Interlude #1
  4. First Attempt At Folding Structure
  5. Taller Object Printed But Vivid Marker Slows Curing
  6. First Object Successfully Separated From Slide [UPDATED]
  7. A Series Of Unfortunate Events For Probe 9
  8. Very Experimental Micromug "Build"
  9. Tuning For Speed And Good Vibrations
  10. Getting Rougher With Dutch Guilding
  11. First Attempt At Dutch Guilding
  12. Fine Tuning The V0.05 Axis Driver
  13. Blast From The Past - Meccano RepRap 2005
  14. Finally, layers! (Like an onion, or a parfait)
  15. Latest V0.05 Axis Driver Fitted
  16. V0.05 Parallelogram Axis Driver Final Assembly Photos
  17. Mosquito-based Extruder Nozzle
  18. RepRapMicron V0.05 Axis Driver Photo Dump
  19. Probe 9, Right Size Dots & Lots of 'Em
  20. Measuring Probe 8 Resin Carrying Capacity
  21. How Much Resin? Clean vs Dipped Probe 7
  22. Probe 7 - Looks Different To The Rest
  23. There Was Blood
  24. Layer Test Print Strike 2
  25. FPath: SubMillimeter 2D
  26. Probe Etch Using Salt/HCl
  27. Layered Print Test Object, Strike 1
  28. Simpler Z Touch Ground Probe
  29. "Dipify" GCODE converter Now Supports Layers & UV
  30. Slicer Changes, USB Video, Silly Season
  31. UV Nail Gel Top Coat - A Solid Object, More Data
  32. Probe One Durability Check
  33. Okay, so I printed the thing.
  34. Proposal for Print In Place XY Table
  35. First Test With "Jelly" Nail Resin
  36. Power Damage
  37. UV Nail Gels Obtained
  38. Personal Update
  39. Metal Foil Experiments
  40. Shielding Gas Curing Test
  41. Anoxic resin curing tank
  42. PrusaSlicer Working, Notes On UV Resin
  43. Strange Noises On Y Axis Identified And Fixed
  44. Imageable Resin Deposition - Test Loop
  45. Possible Imaging Solution With Cellphone Screen
  46. V0.05 Resin Test With Spongy Probe
  47. Positioning Results After Bed Levelling
  48. Micron Bed Leveling ... With Duct Tape???!
  49. Probe One Is In The Box
  50. Oops. Disassembling Probe Number Five
  51. Testing The Level Of The Bed, Or Not...
  52. Probe Assembly Jig (powercut over)
  53. Tips On Etching Tips
  54. The Ancient Eastern Art Of Bulshito - "Stainless Steel Part 2"
  55. Z-Touch Foil Thickness/Deviation Test and Accidental Accuracy Finding
  56. Hypodermic Tip As Deposition Probe ... Nah.
  57. FPath: Calibration Interlude
  58. Tried new probe holder - 10μm Pixels!
  59. Hello World - By Request
  60. Axis Driver Transition From V0.04-V0.05
  61. V0.05 Z Axis Driver - Superbly Stable, New Features
  62. RepRapMicron Z Axis Constraint
  63. V0.04 And V0.05 Happily Coexisting
  64. FPath: Borrowed Precision
  65. The End of Maus V0.04?
  66. Comparing V0.04 and Pantograph Axis Drivers
  67. How Small Can The Dip Pen Go If You Cheat?
  68. Pantograph Axis Driver - First Probe Movement Test
  69. Quick Test Of V0.04, Hello World, Sub-Optimal Alignment
  70. Anti-backlash And A Coupling Change
  71. Alternative Driver Configurations
  72. Pantograph Axis Driver - A Bit of A Stretch
  73. Pantograph Axis Driver With Cranked Arms
  74. Another Open Micromanipulator Project
  75. Z Tower Tweaks And Other Plans
  76. V0.04 Released on Github and Printables
  77. Unwanted Flexibility in μRepRap X Axis Driver Mount
  78. MAUS C V0.04 Assembly Continues
  79. Z Axis Changes for V0.04 and V0.05
  80. Getting Back To V0.04 Bug Fixing...
  81. Preliminary Testing - And Full 1 Dimension Constraint!
  82. Parallel Pantograph Flexure Take Two
  83. First Parallelogram Axis Driver Test Print
  84. Constrained Parallelogram Flexure Design
  85. Beginnings Of Linear Axis Driver Flexures
  86. I've Hit The Axis Driver Motion Limit
  87. X And Y Driving Flexure Upgrade - Now Linear
  88. Changes To Driving Y Axis
  89. MAUS C V0.04 STLs Uploaded - And News About An Elephant
  90. V0.04 Flexure Table Source And Assembly Docs On Github
  91. New Article On hackster.io
  92. XY Table V0.04 Flexure - First Hardware Attempt
  93. MAUS C V0.04 XY Table Redesign Preview
  94. MAUS C V0.04 - Fixing The Table Flexures Part 1
  95. ESP32 GRBL Controller?
  96. All3DP Article on RepRapMicron
  97. Slight Flaw in Maus C XY Table Flexures
  98. Symmetrical Pantograph - Don't Cross The Beams
  99. The Parallel Pantograph Axis Driver Concept
  100. We have the PEGDA
  101. Outcome of FAB25 Conference in Brno/Prague
  102. FPath: Steggo Electronics Modules
  103. Off to Prague For FAB25
  104. Prototype Micron Gripper (printed at macro scale)
  105. Sanitizing Flexure Designs For Next Prototype
  106. Multi-layer Print - First Pre-test Run
  107. Asymmetric Parallelogram For Linear Motion Reduction
  108. Probe Tip Variance And Invariance
  109. μRepRap Go3s G@mer m0d3
  110. 29th May - RepRap Day
  111. Idea for conductive traces
  112. Flexure Coupling Tweaks
  113. Maus Baseboard
  114. RepRapMicron build cost ~€160
  115. FAB25 Speed Talk Schedule
  116. Ahoj Czechia! RepRapMicron goes to Prague.
  117. Maus C V0.03 Bill Of Materials
  118. And then there were two ...
  119. Maus C V0.03 XY Flexure Stage assembled
  120. Ease of Assembly Or Lack Thereof
  121. V0.03 Model files uploaded to GitHub
  122. Manual Section For Axis Driver First Draft
  123. Functional Design Complete - The Manual Begins!
  124. Microscope array clamping system
  125. Endstops - At last!
  126. UV Stage light for resin curing installed
  127. Bad idea #118-b: Cutting magnets
  128. Cheap, convenient resin curing UV LEDs
  129. Hackaday "Jolly Wrencher" 1.5mm x 1.5mm
  130. Hello World
  131. I'm Baaaack!
  132. Let The Conductive Chaos Continue
  133. Life throws a curve ball
  134. eSun Triangle Print Success!
  135. The Mysterious Case Of The Thinning Resin
  136. First resin print from object file
  137. Create 16 micron points in GCODE directly from PrusaSlicer
  138. Plotting points, 500μm initial test with hypodermic tip
  139. Microscope holder
  140. Preparing Glass Slides For RepRapMicron Micro-Deposition
  141. Metriccano spun off as a rapid prototyping tool and educational toy
  142. Maus C Assembly Photos
  143. Maus C uploaded to github
  144. Maus C working with magnetic slide mount
  145. Maus C prototype with all 3 axes
  146. Evolution of Maus C flexures
  147. Maus C with two stage drivers
  148. Maus Complementary Stage (Maus C) with one Maus axis driver
  149. Direct wire actuator and complementary table test
  150. Complementary flexure XY Table prototype
  151. Maus Printable STLs
  152. FPath: Actuator Dreamin’
  153. RepRapMicron Wire Driven Axis
  154. Resin dot deposition achieved
  155. FPath: The Pantograph
  156. Z Wobble, build instructions, and video status
  157. Not all "Nichrome" is Nichrome
  158. 500μm scale mark - printed with PrusaSlicer
  159. Repeated Calibration Zigzag

2024 109

  1. Backlash tests show more about probe flexibility
  2. Maus 3D Model Files On Github
  3. FPath: Stigmergic Fill
  4. Comparing input SVG with actual output
  5. Light touch vs. poking holes in foil [Edited]
  6. Speed Matters 20mm/min vs. 5mm/min & Z Touch
  7. Maus First 400μm Logo Attempt
  8. "Next Gen" Probe design
  9. FPath: Graphical Stigmergy
  10. The FPath Project
  11. Maus XY "black" PLA initial tests
  12. PLA flexure performance isn't black and white
  13. Various Variations On A Stage
  14. Faulty thread replaced - update
  15. Well thar's yer problem - M3 thread
  16. Introducing The Maus Prototype
  17. XY Stage backlash at 8 microns
  18. XY Table flexure drive from condensed Metriccano
  19. When you have a hammer... Metriccano XY flexure table
  20. New anti-backlash and coupling
  21. OpenFlexure Y axis wear
  22. Mod. 6 Z axis built
  23. Mod. 4 Fails
  24. Mod. 3 Kersnapped
  25. "Metriccano" And the Alpha Prototype Mod. 3
  26. Alpha Prototype Z axis Mod 2
  27. Alpha Prototype Z axis
  28. Imaging 0.7mm high letters
  29. Yep, broken 'O' ring
  30. Next hardware failure - NOT Y axis limit switch.
  31. Correcting Probe/Bed Slope
  32. Touch Probe Scans
  33. Contact!
  34. Hello Hackaday Peeps! Here's why I'm doing this.
  35. Wee Break Coming Up
  36. I Need To Concentrate ...
  37. Temperature Gradient Test
  38. Relatively Clear Conductive Tin Oxide Film
  39. Quick Test Of Probe Contact On Sn02
  40. Firing Up The Tin Oxide Furnace
  41. Initial Experiments With Tin (II) Chloride
  42. Wiki Documentation Update
  43. Cardboard boxes - not just for cats to sit in
  44. Hola video of my mini presentation at
  45. Puebla Printer Presentation Package Prepared
  46. Why No Updates?
  47. Piezos are too noisy
  48. Bizzare probe tip etch attempt with KOH
  49. Piezo Positioning Aid?
  50. Experiments with individual dots
  51. A little down time needed
  52. Making Resin Thicker
  53. I made a thing! Or Adventures In Resin Part One
  54. Okay, let's not do that again...
  55. Facepalm No. 1
  56. Endstops on The Block Stage
  57. Direct Drive Woes
  58. Parallel Flexures Go Round In Circles
  59. New Microscope, back in action
  60. Build Files Are Up
  61. 3D Print Files For Glass Slide Holder
  62. Printed Parts Dev Continues However...
  63. Equipment failure - dev on hold
  64. Probe Tip Electrolysis Holder
  65. Leveling The Axes
  66. Probe Storage
  67. Debugging: 10x10 grid of 20nm squares
  68. Probe Tip Movement And Z Height Variation
  69. New Probe Tip Holder
  70. So How Smooth Is Glass?
  71. High Magnification Effects Of Probe Height
  72. Probe Arm Mk 2
  73. Pretty Good 400μm tall RepRapMicron Logo, 20μm Feature Size.
  74. Second Crack At Logo
  75. First Crack At Automated Drawing
  76. Introducing "Titch"
  77. First pass at proper prototype
  78. The μRepRap Is Dead. Long Live The μRepRap.
  79. Z axis variations
  80. Head Crash At 50μm
  81. 0.1mm Cross - Can I call it microns now?
  82. 0.2mm square vs. calibration slide
  83. Back again. Implementing CNC-like controls
  84. Heads Up - Off to EverythingOpen for a couple of weeks
  85. How far can the μRepRap concept be pushed?
  86. The band broke up, and I'm thinking about the dark side.
  87. Endstop switch feet for OpenFlexure Delta Stage
  88. Modular code update
  89. Software on GitHub
  90. Output From First Prototype
  91. Approximate approximations
  92. Stage kinematics from the source
  93. IK Model Flaws
  94. Contacts unreliable but X and Z moving in sync
  95. Remembering the Maths lessons from 40 years ago...
  96. Roughly confirming the 3 micron accuracy
  97. Unwanted adventures in inverse kinematics
  98. The dodgy marlin delta configuration
  99. Im starting to get some form of
  100. And just when i had enough to do it
  101. Probe arm now has 3 supports for proper
  102. One of press fit small gears on nema17
  103. Ive got delta stage moving vaguely
  104. While im waiting for help on marlin
  105. Forgot to mention attaching openflexure
  106. Well theres surprise
  107. Word or three on microscopes you need
  108. Annoying start to reprap i swept thing
  109. Reprappers its been while

2014 3

  1. Open call for AMRI 2014 Summer Fellowships
  2. Custom G-code Generation with Mecode
  3. Join us at 2014 Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF), Goshen, Indiana, USA

2013 21

  1. RS Components distributing RepRaps
  2. Heated Piezo for Jetting Wax (and other stuff)
  3. 2013 AMRI Fellowships Wrap-Up and Final Presentations
  4. Announcing AMRI: Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute
  5. New open source slicer: CuraEngine!
  6. ShopBot Desktop as a 3D Printer for Sugar Glass
  7. 3D printers shown to emit potentially harmful nanosized particles
  8. Your 3D print in the London Science Museum
  9. RepRap Morgan by Quentin Harley wins the Gada Prize!
  10. Why is 3D printing such a powerful way to make solid objects?
  11. Like a glue gun on a robot arm...
  12. 3D Printing Where It Needs To Be
  13. BotQueue v0.3 - Now with Webcams, Pausing, and More!
  14. Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo
  15. Stop bad 3D printing patents
  16. Monsanto's Bean Counters
  17. Inside 3D Printing
  18. Vapor Treating ABS RP parts
  19. Inside 3D Printing Event
  20. Conducting Plastic Experiments
  21. Why I'm Registered to be an Organ Donor

2012 26

  1. Interim Gada Prize - Enter Now!
  2. Open Source is a Philosophy, Not a Checkbox
  3. 32-bit ARM your Sanguinololu
  4. Colour Mix Progress
  5. Introducing BotQueue.com - Open Source Distributed Manufacturing
  6. RepRap Interviews: Sound / Slic3r
  7. 3D printer user survey
  8. Water-cooled Hot End
  9. Variations on Powder Printing
  10. On the Challenge of 3D Printing Sugar for Regenerative Medicine
  11. Colour Mixing
  12. Is Reprap UP! to the Chinese challenge?
  13. Printed Circuitry: All covered up
  14. Say goodby to thermistor table misery...
  15. Colour mixing
  16. More Printed Circuitry
  17. Print any colour you like...
  18. London RepRap User Group
  19. Around the Community 03/25/12
  20. Standardization and RepRap
  21. Around the RepRap Community 03/15/12
  22. Around the RepRap Community 03/12/12
  23. RepRap Community Masterclass in Bath, UK
  24. Print any colour you like...
  25. Make More RepRaps...
  26. ImplicitCAD 0.0.1

2011 77

  1. 0.01 Layer Height on a Prusa Mendel
  2. Solving a nagging question about print adhension
  3. Quality - Open Source for the Win (Part Deux)
  4. Around the RepRap Community 11/28/2011
  5. Reprap Prusa Iteration 2 Build Event in Cologne Germany in December
  6. Playing Fast & Loose
  7. Prusa Iteration 2
  8. Say goodbye to unsightly STL triangle misery! Forever!
  9. RepRap Meeting in Bath
  10. 3D Systems Print Quality Mixup
  11. Still Extruding: Catching up
  12. Hear Adrian Bowyer on BBC Radio
  13. A Tipping Point of Print Quality (Open Source for the win)
  14. Michael S. Hart, e-book inventor and Project Gutenberg founder, dies at 64
  15. Being in a 3D world, with a 3D printer? what do I need? A 3D scanner!
  16. Still Extruding: RepRap Price Points
  17. Still Extruding: Installing Pronterface and SFact in Windows
  18. Around the RepRap Community 08/06/2011
  19. Mendel's Birthday
  20. Surface-Oriented CAD, Math, & Telescopes
  21. Around the RepRap Community 07/15/2011
  22. There may be life in the Darwin after all...
  23. A new approach to printing metals
  24. Reprap at the NextGen Science Fair 2011 in San Francisco
  25. A "string wars" approach to the y-axis
  26. Getting Rid of Mendel's Nuts
  27. Around the RepRap Community
  28. Founder's Forum
  29. Prusa Felt branch and ThingDOC
  30. Unreasonable Rocket's 3d Printed Rocket Engine Takes Flight!
  31. The end of the String Wars
  32. Stepping into firmware
  33. Moving RepRap from Subversion to Git
  34. Selectively making parts of object stronger
  35. Winding up the String Wars
  36. Balitmore RepRap Master Class
  37. Refighting the String Wars
  38. Never Mind the Width, Feel the Quality
  39. Solid prints
  40. Thermal goodness
  41. 3ddc
  42. UK RepRap Master Class
  43. Sampo: The return of Darwin...
  44. New Extruder Design
  45. Rewriting history
  46. Big RepRap Refereed Journal Article
  47. Sourcing a 3d Printer
  48. Be your own souvenir
  49. This week In The Wikii 4/02/11
  50. Extending OpenSCAD
  51. Best of the RepRap Wiki 3/25/11
  52. Print a Vacuum Cleaner!
  53. Best of the RepRap Wiki 3/18/11
  54. Automatic documentation and project evolution
  55. Double Wade sighted in the workshop
  56. Best of the RepRap Wiki 3/11/11
  57. Aha! RepRap appears do be doing MakerFaire!
  58. Development board arrived
  59. Impartial reivew of the Clonedel Cast parts by Metrix Create Space
  60. 3D Printed Adult's Bicycle
  61. High Impact Test
  62. First Dutch Reprap Build-Party
  63. High-Impact PLA
  64. RepRap Universal Mini Extruder
  65. Printing People
  66. Going for 32 bit embedded processors
  67. Printing small holes in small features
  68. RepRap Calculator
  69. Thermocouple vs Thermistor
  70. Improved Huxley design
  71. Conductive pastes take 453
  72. Filling in with the fillings
  73. Evolving the Prusa Mendel: Part 2
  74. RepRap MicroExtruder
  75. The Emerging Economy of Home Manufacturing
  76. Evolving the Prusa Mendel: Part 1
  77. Belt drivn extruder

2010 86

  1. Pretty outside, ugly inside
  2. A proper conductive polymer mix?
  3. ABS Multicolor Printing
  4. Reprappable Inkjet Head
  5. ReplicatorG for RepRaps: Beta testers wanted
  6. Random thoughts on hot-end design
  7. 3D printing and "Intellectual Property"
  8. The Gada Prize
  9. Story of simpler Mendel: Y and Z axes
  10. Replicating laser-cut parts
  11. Story of simpler Mendel: PLA bushings and X-axis
  12. Dem Bones
  13. Dealing with detaching rafts
  14. Mendel Drawing
  15. RepRap repraps RepRap electronics
  16. Wondering what the fuss is about
  17. A Smarter Approach to Infill
  18. RepRap Version III "Huxley"
  19. RepRap is going to the NYC Maker Faire!
  20. Improving print roads calculations
  21. Reprapping two materials into one object
  22. Applying VTEC to Slice and Dice
  23. Towards reprappable electronics
  24. We're Going to the Faire!
  25. Continuous belt production
  26. Some thoughts and observations about having a Reprap machine in the design cycle
  27. Memories of plastic model airplanes
  28. Glow-in-the-dark PLA
  29. Mendel & multiple materials
  30. RepRap in the Year 3000
  31. Overhang support and PCBs
  32. Vectorization of pixel defined print roads actually working properly
  33. New Release
  34. Vectorization of pixel defined print roads
  35. Yet another extruder nozzle...
  36. Reprap Aggregation Pipe - V2 update
  37. Inkjet RepRap
  38. Major New Scientist RepRap Article
  39. RepRap Talk - Bogota
  40. Mendel Variations and Lasers!!!
  41. An Open-Source Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  42. Quick hot bed temperature controller...
  43. A Heated Bed for Mendel
  44. Board Supports
  45. Bay Area Maker Faire Reminder!!!
  46. RepRap the Lawgiver...
  47. RepRap Talk and Demonstration in Cardiff, UK
  48. Where it all began...
  49. Fab At Home
  50. Hot copper and PLA
  51. Hello all number of people have started
  52. Best of both Worlds
  53. Our Extruders Hardly Ever Catch Fire
  54. Let's Go To The Faire!
  55. Stacking slices to make simple boolean unions
  56. Yet Another Geared Extruder
  57. No peel, no warp, no backlash
  58. RepRap in Singapore! (New RepRap User Group)
  59. Tiny ball-chain gears
  60. Bowden Paste Extruder
  61. Google's Summer of Code
  62. Heated Bed and post-McWire Design Sprints! (Marathons?)
  63. Reprappable electronics
  64. Making Mendels
  65. Some crude load tests
  66. Printing light structures
  67. New Release
  68. Erik de Bruijn's RepRap Survey
  69. Slice and Dice 0.1
  70. Drilling the extruder barrel
  71. The Balls Return
  72. Broadening RepRap Participation
  73. RepRapping at the Maker Faire, Newcastle - March 13-14, 2010
  74. Full Colour RepRap?
  75. Mini Me
  76. Multiple object saving and loading
  77. Brass Tube Extruder Update
  78. Many useful little things...
  79. Mendelssohn & LCA2010
  80. Paste Extruder - The first test
  81. Build a better RepRap: $80,000 Prize
  82. Upcoming server outage
  83. Getting there with herringbone rack and pinion
  84. New Software - May Contain Nuts...
  85. A printable, high speed alternative to belts?
  86. New Year New Plastic

2009 147

  1. Steampunk stepper control
  2. ABS works, too.
  3. Mendel part z-leadscrew-base-bar-clamp_2off
  4. Got it!
  5. Got it!
  6. RepRap'd Art Exhibition
  7. Killing flocks of birds with one stone
  8. Can we print belts?
  9. Metal bits from a RepRap
  10. RepRap Goes To School
  11. Soluble Support Material
  12. The March of the Mendels
  13. Bugs Brew PLA Direct
  14. Moving towards production
  15. Mac Goes RepRap (one day...)
  16. Pathetic Fallacy
  17. Printing the Rapman
  18. Bogdan's acid test
  19. More printing large objects with HDPE
  20. Revisiting HDPE
  21. Continued guying
  22. Guying long prints
  23. I found a bug!
  24. Reprapable Solar Power
  25. Rack and pinion
  26. An end to ooze II
  27. An end to ooze and support material found ...
  28. RepRap Extruder Design with OpenSCAD
  29. The RepRap Factory
  30. Printing in space?
  31. MakerBot Love
  32. Copper Plating Wire Glue
  33. Costing Mendel
  34. Mendel Uploaded!
  35. Getting ready for Mendel
  36. Hello World
  37. Mendel's first print!
  38. My Extruder Doesn't Work. What Can I Do?
  39. Mendel Apollo
  40. Software Freedom Day 2009
  41. Darwin vs Wedge, the numbers
  42. Mendelssohn Y axis operational
  43. Giving Mendel Teeth
  44. Mendelssohn Z axis operational
  45. Mendelssohn Update
  46. Wedge progress
  47. Buying a Rapman
  48. Mendel Sighted In The Wild
  49. RepRap at Hacking at Random 2009
  50. Simple PWM Output Design - Spoondriver
  51. Slicing and dicing with image processing
  52. ReplicatorG 0006 Available
  53. One of my partners at makerbot adam
  54. RepRap, the book
  55. Battle of The Bulge pt2
  56. The RepRap Clock
  57. Build Quality
  58. RepStrapping Open Source Ecology
  59. The Cable Tie Track Trick
  60. After long wait replicatorg 0005 is
  61. Dancing shoes
  62. High-rise RepRaps
  63. Stripboard Design App
  64. RepRap Main Website Outage - Updated
  65. No-lathe extruder interior
  66. Stepper driver for Extruder Controller V2.2
  67. Tamiya Universal Extruder
  68. SourceForge Community Choice Awards
  69. Sourceforge awards
  70. Acceleration Code Released
  71. RepRap wins at Bath University
  72. Tommelise 3.0 I2C board finally built
  73. Bowden extruder success!!
  74. Accelerating RepRap
  75. I2C-based Reprap control
  76. Fun Night at MakerBot
  77. Small Melt Zones Look Good
  78. Some notes on the way to an easy-to-make pinchwheel extruder
  79. No-Lathe Extruder Pops Out
  80. Sourceforge Award Nomination
  81. The No-Lathe Barrel & Nozzle
  82. 4D Printing
  83. Taking the Gm-17 out of Nophead's GM-17/tin can stepper hack
  84. Stovetop recycling of HDPE swarf
  85. Documenting the Mk I Nutjob
  86. A different approach to extrusion
  87. Introducting the RepRap Motherboard v1.x
  88. DIY chip fab
  89. Skeinforge Support
  90. Wedgewood X Assembly, Thumbnail Edition
  91. Introducing the Extruder Controller v2.2
  92. First reprapped circuit
  93. Bowden extruder concept
  94. Get your stepper to put splines on its own shaft
  95. Getting a handle on milling accuracy
  96. By your powers combined, I am KAPTON PLANET
  97. RepRap hits Parliament
  98. Cheap linear bearing hack
  99. A gripping read
  100. Now Available: Stepper Motor Driver v2.3
  101. more WeDge
  102. Ed Sells
  103. Wedgewood Update - Z axis in place, X begins
  104. RRRF Prototyping Service Launched!
  105. Wire nozzle
  106. Thermoplast Extruder Version 2.0 Released
  107. Wedgewood Update - Z Axis Begins
  108. Announcing MakerBot Industries
  109. Drink Bottle Feedstock
  110. Direct drive turns out to be the best
  111. Kitty Warning!
  112. Abandoning the conventional approach
  113. A small milestone
  114. Powering the tin can stepper lead screw
  115. Vitamins and minerals
  116. Wedge Design Bracing
  117. Thingiverse Tools System Released
  118. For now we see through a glass, darkly...
  119. Wedge Design Proof Of Concept
  120. Pull Yourself Together, Bot!
  121. Racks and pinions
  122. Tip: Easy Way to Thread Y Belt
  123. OLPC Viewfinder
  124. Stepper pinch-wheel extruder building
  125. IR Ranging
  126. Sanguino Software v1.4 Release
  127. Back From Madrid
  128. RP Pinch-wheel Extruder II
  129. RP Pinch-wheel Extruder
  130. First thrust plate for a printable stepper motor milled
  131. RepRap in Madrid
  132. Support for overhangs
  133. SolidEdge Version Poll
  134. Csg evaluator plugin v1
  135. Conserving MCU pins via the I2C bus
  136. 3D printing on Facebook
  137. Going high risk steampunk
  138. HACDC RepRap Buildathon
  139. 4 Dimensional RepRap
  140. Pinch Wheel Extruder Is Alive
  141. CSG Evaluator - An AoI plugin for convenient Boolean Operations
  142. After Darwin: Should Mendel be a specific 3D printer or a technology toolbox?
  143. Pinch Wheel Extruder Prototype v1.1
  144. Mib
  145. Pinch Wheel Extruder Prototype
  146. Weve been using gm3 gearmotors for our
  147. IRC Chat Now Has An Archived Log

2008 195

  1. Mother of all Boards...
  2. Roast-in-a-bag Duck...
  3. Sticking point
  4. Non-captive Gearmotor
  5. Paste extruder motor test
  6. Well. That didn't work...
  7. Ponoko Lasercut RepRap BoM
  8. Chemically grinding ABS scrap: part 2
  9. No-curl hair dryer
  10. Building a printable stepper for a next generation Reprap
  11. Solid Model files for Darwin's Cartesian Bot
  12. Suppression
  13. Sphere
  14. Another approach to heating the print surface
  15. Granule Extruder - the sequel
  16. Award for RepRap?
  17. Heating the print surface: doing the numbers
  18. Chemically grinding ABS scrap
  19. Idea for reduced cartesian structure
  20. Announcing Thingiverse.com
  21. Multiple materials
  22. DIY PLA
  23. About !*$!*&! time...
  24. Lasercut RepRap Extruder Instructions on Wiki
  25. Puddle to the Metal
  26. Exchangeable Lasercut Extruder
  27. New Board: LCD Controller v1.0
  28. New code first build
  29. Multimode Host Software
  30. Lasercut RepRap Available in Australasia & US
  31. ReplicatorG 0002 Release
  32. Sanguino Software v1.3 Release
  33. Yes - it's a square...
  34. RS485 Circuit = Success
  35. New Board: Arduino Breakout Shield v1.4
  36. RepStrap In Chains
  37. Building ABS on a lasercut/fabbed Darwin
  38. New Board: Stepper Motor Driver v1.2
  39. Wahooo!!
  40. RepRap Builder's Wiki
  41. Belts anyone?
  42. Testing the envelope
  43. Meshlab Discovery - The Origins
  44. Meshlab
  45. Ponoko Lasercut Prototype Strike 3
  46. Sanguino RepRap
  47. Sanguino Software v1.2 Released
  48. New Board: Sanguino Breakout v1.0
  49. New Board: GM3 Noise Suppressor v1.0
  50. Sanguino Software v1.1
  51. Phoenix Gets A NEMA 17
  52. Off to Italy
  53. All these parameters? WTF!?
  54. Stripboard Sanguino
  55. Ball-chain for X axis
  56. Announcing ReplicatorG 0001
  57. RepRapped Screw Thread
  58. Going Round In Circles
  59. New X Carriage Hot Off The RepRap
  60. Arc Compensation
  61. Extruder valve
  62. Milling plastic with a Reprap machine?
  63. Blood on the carpet...
  64. Belt tensioner
  65. RepRap Parts Lister Update
  66. RepRapped Shaft Encoder
  67. Going for an EDM toolhead
  68. Announcing: Sanguino v1.0
  69. Extruder alternatives
  70. My bad: another note about compact flash cards
  71. A note about compact flash cards
  72. An affordable alternative to JB-Weld and BBQ paint?
  73. TSA Really Wreck The RepRap Child
  74. Foundations
  75. Every little helps
  76. A bit more about Zach's opto-endstop
  77. Minor notes on the Zach's Opto-endstop PCB
  78. OSCON RepRap Butchered
  79. Bits from Bytes RepRap now in Subversion
  80. RepRap Child Now At OSCON in Portland
  81. New Board: Magnetic Rotary Encoder v1.0
  82. Multilingual Host Software
  83. Revisiting the recycling of Reprap plastics
  84. Extruder instructions
  85. The fraught question of 3D modeling for Reprap
  86. Java Host Software
  87. Hacking the Solarbotics GM3 Gearmotor
  88. RepRap At OSCON 2008
  89. Measuring extruder temperature using Adrian's circuit
  90. New Board: Opto Isolator v1.0
  91. Line buffering in the Arduino
  92. Unsupported!
  93. Intermediate Java release
  94. PIC file release
  95. Sensing temperature with no temperature sensor
  96. RepRap at the Cheltenham Science Fest
  97. Full Electronics Kit Now Available
  98. RepRap achieves replication!
  99. ABS coat hook
  100. Come and see RepRap!
  101. Quality development
  102. Arduino Firmware v1.3 Released
  103. TRADITIONAL flyswatter :-)
  104. Laser-Sighted Flyswatter
  105. ABS Door handle
  106. Then there were two...
  107. Shoe
  108. Progress with ABS
  109. Inter-layer cooling?
  110. Freeduino is free.
  111. Bug fixing
  112. Open sesame...
  113. Economics (n. pl.: the management of a household)
  114. PLA Corner bracket failure mode
  115. PLA & Stepper Drivers in NZ
  116. Anti-ooze - the first design
  117. Gripping Stuff - The Extruder Clamp
  118. Ball-chain update
  119. Made in China
  120. Magnetic Rotary Encoder Design
  121. Darwin@Adrian goes Arduino
  122. New Board: Arduino Breakout Shield v1.2
  123. New Board: Temperature Sensor v1.1
  124. More anti-ooze
  125. RepRap prints a child
  126. Shaving The Yak
  127. Anti-ooze
  128. Simple Hot Metal Valve
  129. An iPod in your Ford
  130. RepRap in Oslo
  131. Some estimates...
  132. A few thoughts on warping
  133. Hello Slashdotters
  134. Granule extruder
  135. RepRap extruder does ABS
  136. Ponoko.com lasercut kit, strike 2
  137. Z Motor Adaptor Plate
  138. New Board: Thermocouple Sensor v1.0
  139. New Board: Arduino Breakout v1.1
  140. Serendipity
  141. Arduino chosen for next stage of RepRap development
  142. Replacing in-situ
  143. Yet Another Minimug
  144. More Nose-Wiping Action And A Boo-Boo
  145. Nozzle Cleaning Part Deux
  146. A high temperature extruder?
  147. Coupling Issues Solved
  148. Doctor blade
  149. While coupling, I killed the X axis
  150. Coupling gets too hot
  151. ExtruderDelay parameter mod
  152. RepRap Segment Pausing Fix
  153. Blow your nose and clean your teeth
  154. Extruder temperatures
  155. Preferences file for the host software
  156. Beaded Belt Drive Success
  157. Aligni parts database
  158. Ratcheted filament driver
  159. UV plant-derived resins for RepRap
  160. FabLab and RepRap
  161. Darwin@Adrian
  162. Software fixed. Many new special bugs introduced...
  163. Ponoko's Lasercut RepRap
  164. Arduino Firmware v1.2 Released!
  165. Coupling Breakage Update & Images
  166. My Darwin's First Print
  167. Difficulties With Coupling
  168. Objects.RepRap.Org - Any volunteers?
  169. Software Outside The Box (Updated)
  170. 98% Of A Carriage
  171. X Motor Bracket
  172. Half-Way to Replication!
  173. Back from Mel8ourne
  174. PTFE slippage
  175. Another pile of parts falls out of the RepRap
  176. Update from he who feels like hammered sh...
  177. On the road to replication
  178. Extruder feedback
  179. In stereo - another opto bracket
  180. Optoswitch bracket printed
  181. Z Axis Kebab Printed
  182. Extrusion at different temps
  183. Geared extrusion
  184. Darwin on CAPA
  185. Bed Corner and Diagonal Tie Bracket
  186. Bed Corner Printout Success
  187. Arduino Firmware v1.1 Released
  188. Advanced Electronics Thoughts
  189. Corner Bracket photos and Bed Corner
  190. Segment pause bug-fix committed
  191. First Corner Bracket
  192. PWM Driver v1.1 / DC Motor Driver v1.1 Released
  193. Paste Extruder water tests.
  194. RepRap at UK Science Museum
  195. New manufacturing process

2007 141

  1. Happy new year to all reprappers from
  2. Encapsulated Extruder Hopeless - Built New One
  3. Experimental firmware working
  4. eMachined Extruder Parts
  5. Print Head Auto-Encapsulation
  6. Commit to SVN for nozzle-wipe method
  7. Wiping up
  8. Half a step forward
  9. A Wet Weekend in Taupo
  10. RepRappers: Unite!
  11. A day in the life of RepRap
  12. Machinist Help Needed
  13. Resin paste-extruder valve
  14. New z flag adjuster
  15. Producer/LayerProducer code changes
  16. Thank You MAKEzine!
  17. PowerComms v1.3 Released
  18. Amazin' Saddles
  19. Postscript: RepRap goes home from the USA
  20. New Firmware Release
  21. Extruder output profile
  22. Thoughts on printing at ambient temperatures
  23. RepRap User Groups
  24. DC Motor Driver v1.0 Documented
  25. Extruder Casting Photos
  26. RepRap at Linuxconf Australia 2008
  27. RepRap Part Lister
  28. Time to sort the software
  29. RepRap visits a FabLab
  30. The latest from Adrian
  31. Here is reprap and me at poptech one of
  32. X-axis idler assembly in PLA
  33. X-Idler Bracket Continued
  34. X-Idler Bracket Printed
  35. Having a little wine
  36. For those who prefer mixers
  37. First RepRap'd Z-Axis Pulley Rim
  38. RepRap goes to MIT
  39. Tha intakes are clogged wi' dust, Capt'n
  40. PICs Reading USB Drives
  41. RepRaps by the ton III
  42. Cheers! Another Minimug Emerges.
  43. The extruder lives - again
  44. Running smoothly - for 5 minutes
  45. Object file release updates
  46. Smokin' The Gear
  47. Moulding RepRaps
  48. Waitakere Darwin 1.0 Printing in PLA
  49. We Strive To Improve...
  50. Trivial Update Post: Opto Enstop Docs
  51. PowerComms v1.3.0 Beta
  52. Darwin's bits
  53. Extruder temperature bug (almost) eliminated
  54. More on the granule extruder
  55. Extruding from granules
  56. Volunteers needed!
  57. RepRaps by the ton II
  58. RepRap progress is faster than a speeding bullet
  59. Honey! I replicated the cat!
  60. RepRaps by the ton
  61. Aluminum Extruder Sneak Peek
  62. Quick change artist
  63. Where is home?
  64. RepRap Talk Online
  65. Mendel Preview
  66. Darwin's Adventures Down Under
  67. Filling in the cracks
  68. RepRap Going To O'Reilly OSCON 2007
  69. Silicone enhanced RepRap
  70. Memory hog is bacon
  71. Token ring gold
  72. RepRap V1.2 Stepper Controller Board instructions done.
  73. V1.2 Universal Extruder Board Assembly
  74. Very fine RepRap nozzles
  75. RepRap Host v0.8 Released
  76. Opto Endstop Boards Arrived!
  77. PLA Darwin Parts From Zaphod
  78. Darwin parts analysis
  79. PowerComms v1.2 Build
  80. Announcing the RepRap Research Foundation
  81. PLA Darwin part
  82. Another support material miracle?
  83. More squiggles...
  84. Support material miracle
  85. Slimline Darwin Designs
  86. Flask with overhangs in PLA
  87. RepRap needs your JAVA help!
  88. PLA Filament works
  89. Catwalk
  90. Wired
  91. PowerComms & Universal v1.2
  92. Opto-endstop cutie pie'd
  93. Aluminum Barrel Success!
  94. i <3 aluminum
  95. RepRap wasn't built in a day
  96. Printing HDPE on copper.
  97. You can't spread a bit of CAPA on your copper
  98. Tommelise joins Zaphod and A.R.N.I.E.
  99. Congratulations to ArtOfIllusion
  100. What happens when a US National Laboratory tries to make a RepRap
  101. You Look Like My (proto)Type
  102. Another time lapse - the logo (almost)
  103. Darwin assembly instructions
  104. ETech 2007
  105. Untimely Lapse Movie
  106. Darwin's X axis repeatability
  107. Time-lapse video of test hexagon.
  108. Bendy extruder gets things straight
  109. Darwin's X-axis toothed pulley
  110. Darwin's Y-axis repeatability
  111. PowerComms v1.1: Success!
  112. Moulding thin walled gears, succeeds (!)
  113. BBQ paint fails
  114. Sebastien's polyethylene glycol
  115. The Extruded Extruder Extrudes!
  116. Darwin makes a move
  117. PowerComms Board v1.1
  118. CAPA vs. ABS bodies extruders
  119. Shameless publicity and cash seeking
  120. Paste extruder
  121. Printing with conventional solder
  122. Printing circuitry in the low-rent district
  123. Low-melting-point alloys
  124. Website Architecture Changes
  125. Extruding HDPE in the Mk 2.1
  126. Pressing Belt Gears
  127. CAPA Extruder Pushes Filament
  128. RepRapped extruder parts
  129. Moulding gears
  130. A.R.N.I.E. gives it a shot...
  131. Now a motor-holder part
  132. Mk 2 Extruder part made on Zaphod
  133. RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" Communications and Power Distribution
  134. RepRap at Linuxconf Australia 2007
  135. More on PVA as a support
  136. Support material
  137. Darwin's first cut
  138. Cheers!
  139. Filament supply line & belt drives
  140. Java anyone?
  141. Experimental gear train

2006 260

  1. Hiccup
  2. Lost units
  3. Universal PCB update
  4. Universal PCB test
  5. Milling about.
  6. Bit of Edam
  7. Universal PCB
  8. Modesty demands...
  9. Faster, Cheaper, Better
  10. Unexpected twist for new filament
  11. A Printable Penguin
  12. As he giveth so shall he taketh away
  13. Test driving the RepStrap
  14. Extruding -- or not
  15. More thoughts on the Mk II...
  16. More on filament and threaded rods...
  17. objects.reprap.org
  18. The 'Fab @ Home' project
  19. Polyethylene glycol as a potential water-soluble support mechanism.
  20. Rethinking the Mk II heater nozzle...
  21. CAPA filament arrives...
  22. Bug fix on the Experimental Involute Profile Gear script...
  23. Upgraded AoI Involute Profile Gear script...
  24. Upgrading the AoI Involute Profile Gear Script...
  25. Involute profile gear tooth script pathology.
  26. More work on the involute profile gear script for AoI
  27. RepRap Interview on Austrian TV
  28. First Working Part Printed & Fitted
  29. Quick update from Vienna
  30. RepRap Makes a Name for Itself
  31. RepRap on display in Vienna
  32. Use of Castable Bearings in RepRap
  33. The mystery deepens
  34. Common components for KiCad
  35. Biting the KiCad bullet...
  36. RepRap To Go
  37. First part printed by Zaphod
  38. A hole in my theory
  39. Rack those pinions...
  40. Under pressure
  41. Rethinking everything...
  42. Hatching a thicker plot
  43. Rack and Pinion...
  44. Second prototype gets some guts
  45. Diagonal Infilling...
  46. Next gen RepRap in progress
  47. Infilling...
  48. Serious tests...
  49. Grids rock!
  50. First try at grids...
  51. Time to try another approach...
  52. Quick and dirty support structures...
  53. A good start at slicing and dicing...
  54. More slicing and dicing...
  55. First tries at slicing and dicing...
  56. Repstraperous
  57. Comms working again...
  58. Sign For a RepRap
  59. Frankenboard and Frankenmotor with IR Thermometer...
  60. RepRappers of the World Unite!
  61. Mk2a RepRap Polymer Extruder Head
  62. What we might make with a reprap...
  63. Frankenboard meets the Frankenmotor...
  64. The Great Pyramid of Pholymer
  65. A new wrinkle on CAPA filament production...
  66. Feedback control of brushed DC motor speed
  67. Controlling speed, direction and position of a brushed DC motor...
  68. The RepRap mints a polo
  69. Making interchangeable nozzles.
  70. Chips arrive!
  71. Interrupt-driven serial comms no real challenge
  72. Printing a real part
  73. Well THAT was easy!
  74. Peristaltic pump go after all!
  75. Peristaltic pump no go
  76. Done with shaft encoding...
  77. True Grit
  78. ARNIE z-run performance
  79. We got shaft encoder pulses on the PIC!
  80. Fan-boys and hairspray
  81. ARNIE gets studding, and goes up...
  82. 0.5mm Layers and Cooling
  83. Setting up for shaft encoding tests
  84. Got direction and speed going for the little yellow G4 motor...
  85. MELabs USB PIC programmer board arrived...
  86. More work on the Mk IIa...
  87. First try at filament...
  88. Shopping...
  89. Peristaltic Polyfilla
  90. Heresy?
  91. Testing assumptions about polymer melts...
  92. Vik doing Reprap when he should be resting his back...
  93. First crude attempts at calibration...
  94. Thinking about making filament again...
  95. Fine tuning Godzilla...
  96. First Complete Object & Tower of Ooze
  97. Frankenmotors running all three axes on Godzilla...
  98. Slicing and Dicing
  99. Godzilla y-axis meets the Frankenmotor...
  100. Godzilla y-axis towers strung up!
  101. And the second string does exhibition during timeout...
  102. Video of Da Witch in action
  103. PWMing along...
  104. G4 Motor Control Card
  105. Basically PIC...
  106. Quick work with the 0.8mm nozzle
  107. Making the 0.5mm nozzle work
  108. Godzilla z-axis is WIRED!
  109. The Plan...
  110. Plaas catches the cable and pulley disease...
  111. Frankenmotor meets Godzilla...
  112. 0.5mm Mk 2 extruder trials/tribulations
  113. Speculations on RepRap 2.0
  114. Integrating the Frankenmotors into Godzilla...
  115. Frankenmotors arrive...
  116. Digital servo
  117. Echoing...
  118. The frankenscrewdriver
  119. Good news on the Java front
  120. Simon & Vik's Bumper Fun Weekend Issue
  121. LOL! Oh dear, here goes... plaas programs the PIC16F628
  122. Flagulation
  123. Helical gears back on again
  124. Magnetic Shaft Encoders
  125. Steve Degroof asks a really good question...
  126. Gear reduction...
  127. And some gears not so good
  128. A gearbox for Godzilla...
  129. Refill of the syringe
  130. Support material extruder
  131. Support material conclusions
  132. Godzilla vs the Siemens gearmotor...
  133. Limits on the gear script not as bad as thought...
  134. Thoughts on scaleable RepRaps...
  135. Meshing gears... Simon's question...
  136. Heh, heh, heh... :-D
  137. We have an involute gear script!
  138. Something that looks like square and hexagon!
  139. Busy weeked with little to show
  140. The solution to yesterday's puzzle
  141. Time for a laugh, and a smile
  142. And here by popular request, boys and girls...
  143. The Half-tooth clicks!
  144. Attempt #4: Gentlefolk, we have some output.
  145. More on Involute Gears...
  146. Creating Involute Profile Gears
  147. No Disassemble Number 5....
  148. Getting my arms around the SDCC compiler...
  149. Attempt at extrusion over 3D axis #3
  150. Attempt at extrusion over 3D axis #2
  151. Attempt at extrusion over 3D axis #1
  152. How exciting... cross hatching etc
  153. More work with the z-axis
  154. Full translation on the z-axis...
  155. Godzilla y-axis tower moves...
  156. Godzilla z-axis turns properly...
  157. Extruder updates
  158. It drew a square for real!
  159. RepRap application
  160. RepRap Control Software
  161. 3D Progress Previewer
  162. The Godzilla stepper controller board takes shape...
  163. Stage now moving under Java control
  164. ARNIE Mk1 first build
  165. Stripboard extruder controller
  166. Still Life With Stepper Controller Board and Stepper Motor....
  167. Customisable addresses etc
  168. First try at a stepper controller for Godzilla...
  169. STL files and polygons
  170. Godzilla comms board is operational...
  171. Slave board built
  172. First polypropylene extruded...
  173. Potential support material...
  174. Ridiculous... :-/
  175. Serendepity strikes again...
  176. New stripboard layout for bipolar controller tested
  177. First filament extrusion run with added filler...
  178. Godzilla comms board just about done...
  179. Networked Extruder Board in Alpha Release
  180. ARNIE finds her feet
  181. Retiring the electric screwdriver...
  182. A workable coupling for the filament extruder
  183. Making the quenching bath be the takeup reel...
  184. Getting the filament out of the bath...
  185. Joints that don't break...
  186. Quenching baths for CAPA
  187. New cable wiring and connectors
  188. Continued filament extrusion experiments.
  189. Stewart platform, Rev 1.
  190. Polygon software
  191. First Microchip PIC16F628 for Godzilla project programmed...
  192. Making Version 2
  193. Results of a complete breadown of the quarter-inch extruder...
  194. More post extrusion filament treatment...
  195. UDN2559 Stripboard design, take 2
  196. Closing on producing usuable filament...
  197. Wednesday morning tests...
  198. We appear to have another successful filament extruder concept...
  199. Tests on the 6.35 mm filament extruder
  200. Monday tests on the 6.35 mm filament extruder
  201. Building the 6.35 mm filament extruder
  202. Electronics from Kicad and laserprinted PCBs
  203. New RepRap Member
  204. UDN2559-based control board going
  205. Design study for the 6.35 mm filament extruder
  206. Charitable thoughts...
  207. Irp
  208. 2559 Stepper board prototyped
  209. The twist drill extruder - initial experiments
  210. Grinding Frozen Polymorph
  211. Nuff Faff
  212. The twist drill extruder
  213. Pumping CAPA 6800 meal...
  214. Grinding CAPA 6800
  215. Vik's Presentation As A Stream
  216. Integrating electronics...
  217. Saturday afternoon filament extruder experiments
  218. The Concrete Extruder and Full RepRap Axis Assembly
  219. The next morning of filament extruder experimentation...
  220. Reprap Musings
  221. Initial experiments on filament extruder 2.0
  222. Video of concrete extruder in operation
  223. PC Death @ Vik
  224. PTFE-free extruder well plastered - and extruding
  225. JDM Programmer Card done...
  226. Building the JDM PIC Programmer Card...
  227. Concrete insulator Mk 1
  228. Reprap
  229. String Wars
  230. Mk 2 parts arrive
  231. First concrete test cylinder
  232. Godzilla is done for now...
  233. Second z-y stage built
  234. Progress with cement
  235. Moving right along...
  236. Replacing PTFE with concrete
  237. X-axis done...
  238. Torque Calculations for Vertical Power Screws
  239. RepRap at LCA2006
  240. Steppers vs. Servos
  241. Capturing OpenGL data for prototyping
  242. Steppers for Africa!
  243. Concrete ideas
  244. High Temperature Materials
  245. Update on the Gingery filament extruder...
  246. Axis controller & extruder prototype boards
  247. Make your own plastic for RepRap
  248. Closing in on Godzilla...
  249. Fourth Round Dieting...
  250. Third Round
  251. PCB production
  252. Second Round
  253. Weekend Design Charrette
  254. Duplicate Extruder Mechanism Mk2 Operational
  255. And finally the auger...
  256. Pulley accuracy test rig
  257. Threaded Rod Object done...
  258. What eD's doing
  259. Additional primitives for AoI?
  260. Simple 3D Scanner

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  1. Welding Rig Arrives!
  2. 3D Cartesian axis, take 1
  3. Polymer needed
  4. Vertical platform successful test - 500g+
  5. Heat Testing the Extruder Assembly...
  6. Progress on the filament extruder...
  7. Meccano on steroids...
  8. Central core of vertical axis ready
  9. Ready for the drill press...
  10. Screw-driven axis self-callibrates
  11. Jigging the Filament Extruder Frame...
  12. Strange Economics...
  13. Screw-driven axis under construction
  14. Cartridge heater arrives!
  15. Building the filament extruder version 1.0
  16. Clamps & spider arrive
  17. Polymorph and polycaprolactone
  18. Our Carriage Awaits.
  19. Join the resistance
  20. MK II Extruder, take 2
  21. Insy Winsy Spider...
  22. Turntable raising gears fabricated
  23. Wire wrapping test
  24. New Extruder
  25. RepRap Wiki
  26. Guy Fawkes Update
  27. First Polymorph Object Made
  28. Removing floppy steppers
  29. Why so quiet?
  30. First non-circular object printed
  31. Computer languages
  32. Head Design Released
  33. Meccano prototype's first restarted object
  34. Meccano EVA extruder plans
  35. Ready-made heaters
  36. 3-Axis motorisation complete
  37. Z Axis Stepper Report
  38. The Two-Step
  39. Powder-based RP technology
  40. Screw thread drive preliminary experiment
  41. Floppy stepper update - updated :)
  42. Steppin' in, steppin' out...
  43. PLA thermal characteristics
  44. It is an ex-glue gun. It has ceased to be.
  45. Quick fixupses 'r' us
  46. Flat structures from EVA
  47. Closeup of Turntable
  48. Meccano prototype with new turntable
  49. Polylactic Acid
  50. Inverted wire-wrapping
  51. Afghan Lathe as a web page
  52. Going All Curly
  53. The "Afghan Lathe" technique - Updated
  54. Gantry Welded Over Meccano Prototype
  55. Ideas From The Dumpster
  56. Head mounts & sizes
  57. Strength of objects made by layered manufacturing
  58. I2C And RS232 Code for PICs Under SDCC
  59. Video Of Polymorph Saddles
  60. Turntable Proposal Mk I
  61. Possible new polymer
  62. Polymorph Carriage and Clips
  63. Polymorph Carriage Tests
  64. Bolt-based Polymorph Pusher MkII Proposal
  65. Idea for future circuit production
  66. Feeder head for polymorph extrusion
  67. Carriages from Polymorph
  68. Metallic glass
  69. Nozzle made of solder
  70. Extruder feed mechanism image
  71. Yet another polymorph extruder
  72. Finned extruder
  73. Postscript to polymorph extrusion
  74. Polymorph moulding
  75. Turntable Scanner
  76. Extruding polymorph
  77. Polymorph and similar materials
  78. Polymorph samples have now arrived in
  79. Axis Debut
  80. Injector head assembly with all
  81. Injector lifted up immediately after
  82. Test piece with bend alloy deposited
  83. 3-Axis Meccano Prototype
  84. PIC Sofware Development Kits
  85. Square eyes
  86. Prototype axis
  87. The Icing on the Cake
  88. First Physical Output From AoI
  89. CAD System
  90. Viks chum hayden has found cool
  91. Viks found rather neat pic project
  92. Thanks again to vik who has now
  93. Many thanks to dick steffens who has
  94. PIC Sofware Development Kits
  95. Sucrose structures
  96. Test As You Go
  97. First Successful Silver Paint Circuit
  98. Indicator for manual intervention.
  99. Silver Paint Track Trials
  100. Hoeken has found more possible cad
  101. With reference to viks glue gun idea i
  102. Vik has tried experiment with his
  103. Brief experimental result on idea of
  104. More input on cad question from paul
  105. Vik olliver has just sent us pictures
  106. Extrusion head that co extrudes thin
  107. Polymorph might be useful material
  108. We quite like idea of building extra
  109. Another powder printing possibility
  110. Lay down white polymer powder for
  111. Neat suggestion from john davis use
  112. Reprap