RepRap At Work

[major_clanger]

In response to a comment to my earlier post asking how RepRap builds objects, here's a time-lapse video of it in action.

Darwin: Optoswitch bracket timelapse build from eD Sells on Vimeo.

(Or see here: http://www.vimeo.com/784217)

More videos.

Comments

[kake]

That's neat! What's it doing when the print head zips over to the left?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Clean cycle?

That's cool, but for sheer spectacle it's hard to beat the big Candyfab, which builds up layers of molten sugar by selective heating with a blowtorch.

[kake]

Clean cycle makes sense. I first thought of refuelling, but it doesn't make sense to refuel from the bottom up.

Some of my friends (Fotango people, if that means anything to you) were playing with a 3-D printer a few years ago — they made it out of Lego and it printed using chocolate. Most of the evidence has vanished from the interweb, but there's some stuff still floating around on web.archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040902035633/http://www.whoot.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070218145502/opensource.fotango.com/svn/trunk/3dPrinter/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20041014013328/www.twoshortplanks.com/temp/choc_printing/
http://web.archive.org/web/20050116153228/www.twoshortplanks.com/temp/3d/