Re: [rp-ml] Video - 3D Printing Basics

Thanks Marshall.

I should perhaps have mentioned that printing metals and plastics
combined is coming along nicely, too.

We printed a working Arduino the other day:

http://blog.reprap.org/2012/04/some-more-printed-circuitry.html

Best wishes

Adrian

Dr Adrian Bowyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Bowyer
http://reprap.org

On 20/05/12 13:08, Marshall Burns wrote:
> Programmable gradient mechanical properties throughout an object's material?
> Adrian, if you accomplish that effectively, you will not only out-do all the
> other fabbers on the market, you will advance the whole field past
> industrial manufacturing in another critical way.
>
> What do those who see the RepRap as antiquated technology say to this? Am I
> missing important flaws that diminish the positive assessment above?
>
> Marshall Burns
> www.fabbers.com
> (that site is now antiquated!)
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On Behalf
> Of Adrian Bowyer
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 03:10
> To: Michael Armbruster
> Cc: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
> Subject: Re: [rp-ml] Video - 3D Printing Basics
>
> Hmmm...
>
> As far as I am aware RepRap will be the first fused filament fabrication
> machine that can print in any colour by mixing cyan, magenta, yellow, white
> and black in a single nozzle. See:
>
>> http://blog.reprap.org/2012/04/colour-mixing.html
>
> We shall shortly be using the same technology to mix rigid and elastic PLA
> in any proportions you like, so that you can do builds with continually
> varying mechanical properties across an object. (it will also allow a
> single nozzle to lay down both a build and a soluble
> support...)
>
> Ink-jet machines can already do this sort of thing, of course. But they are
> far too slow and outdated for serious production. And you can have an awful
> lot of RepRaps for the price of just one of them...
>
> Having said that, I printed an inkjet in a RepRap ages ago for people who
> like that sort of thing:
>
> http://reprap.org/wiki/Reprappable-inkjet
>
> Best wishes
>
> Adrian
>
> Dr Adrian Bowyer
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Bowyer
> http://reprap.org
>
>
>
>
> On 20/05/12 04:00, Michael Armbruster wrote:
>> I absolutely agree with those points, I personally do not see the
>> RepRap as a finished product, and I love the open source community for
>> all the reasons that you mention. I want the open source community to
>> thrive and I want for more to pop up. Love love love them, 100%. A+.
>> ... My only concern, as I've mentioned, is that many people are being
>> exposed to this community without realizing how outdated it is. Even
>> with support, the machine will still only have evolved into something
>> we've already had for a long time. I don't feel like we're doing a
>> good enough job of telling people that. I just want to make sure that
>> the kids who are being exposed to these things understand that while a
>> RepRap might very well be the future, the machine is also very much
>> the past. That's why I'm so passionate about the video.
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de
>> <mailto:mah@jump-ing.de>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 16.05.2012 um 21:57 schrieb Michael Armbruster:
>>>
>>>> But, at the same time, I also feel it's sort of a *two steps forward
>>>> and one step back* scenario.
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps it isn't a good idea to see RepRap machines as a finished
>> product in
>>> the traditional sense. Printing a support structure is a matter of
>> software
>>> and with this new type of evolution, nobody stops you from uploading
>> a newer
>>> software or develop one for yourself - and for the development
>> community.
>>> There's also nobody stopping you from modifying your machine to make
>> use of
>>> a second extruder, extruding a support material.
>>>
>>> When building your own printer, you get something like a snapshot of
>>> an ongoing development, of an ongoing evolution. And there is no
>>> ending
>> of this
>>> evolution in sight.
>>>
>>>
>>> Markus Hitter
>>>
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter
>>> http://www.jump-ing.de/
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Received on Sun May 20 16:01:21 2012