Monday, February 02, 2026
Post-Conference RepRapMicron Interactions
A couple of things have happened as a result of the Everything Open conference. First off, the Hackaday folks have run an article on it https://hackaday.com/2026/02/01/the-latest-from-reprapmicron-nail-gel-first-objects-and-more/ which is nice for a bit of exposure.
Second, Jon Oxer of SuperHouse (Maker Electronics maestro and entrepreneur Down Under) has said https://youtube.com/live/DVUR0oRK5SI he wishes to build a RepRapMicron and livestream the process, which is brave of him. I intend to follow along and see where, and how badly, my documentation fails. What I'm not going to do is hang around the livestream and keep offering advice, because an important part of this project is accessibility. If the likes of Jon can't follow it, I'm really messing up somewhere. We'll have to arrange a safeword beforehand...
From the hardware angle, I'm noodling with the Z Axis. I think the complementary flexures on the side of it might benefit from being a little thicker, and I'm adding a spring washer to help stop the Probe Arm from loosening up when you manually move it back and forth a lot. Probably tidy up the Z Touch Wire while I'm at it.
