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Blog for the RepRap project at www.reprap.org - a project to create an open-source self-copying 3D printer. To get all the early posts on this blog with all the images as a single PDF visit this page.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

What happens when a US National Laboratory tries to make a RepRap

Note the bent walls and corner blobbing. :-D

# posted by Forrest Higgs @ 10:01 PM

Comments:

Of course we get bent walls and corner blobbing too. But we don't look so jolly serious about it in pictures.

Their stainless steel was nice and shiny, I thought.

# posted by  Adrian Bowyer : April 12, 2007 12:33 AM

 

I had to look close to see the lines and the blobbing. But then I saw the worn paint on the head's cap. Tsk tsk! Yeah and what's that purple stuff?

# posted by  Bart Anderson : April 12, 2007 2:33 AM

 

Where is this from? Is there an article too?

# posted by  briand : April 12, 2007 2:41 AM

 

Where is this from? Is there an article too?

Sure! I wasn't exaggerating for effect. :-s

http://www.sandia.gov/media/robocast.htm

# posted by  Forrest Higgs : April 12, 2007 3:12 AM

 

Let's see their machine fabricate some of those nice, shiny, metal parts that it's made from. I suppose it could print parts for a ceramic RepRap...but the sintering would be a hot pain.

# posted by  Evan Lott : April 14, 2007 3:26 AM

 

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