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.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
What happens when a US National Laboratory tries to make a RepRap
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.
Of course we get bent walls and corner blobbing too. But we don't look so jolly serious about it in pictures.
ReplyDeleteTheir stainless steel was nice and shiny, I thought.
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?
ReplyDeleteWhere is this from? Is there an article too?
ReplyDeleteWhere is this from? Is there an article too?
ReplyDeleteSure! I wasn't exaggerating for effect. :-s
http://www.sandia.gov/media/robocast.htm
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.
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