RepRap: Blog

I am working on an improved Huxley design.  This is slower than I'd like, owing to lack of time, but it's coming together.

A few key points:

1. It's all being done in OpenSCAD - the files are in the RepRap svn repository under huxley.
2. It uses printed sliding bearings that are screw adjustable, so they always fit exactly.  Further, you can compensate for wear.
3. Other adjustments are done with shims.  Or small rectangles of paper...
4. Rhys has found a very high torque NEMA 11 motor which I hope to use for my microextruder for it.
5. I'm trying to design it for ease of assembly.  In particular, I'm trying to get it so that you can put things together in just about any order, and so that you don't have to take four things off to extract and replace a fifth.

The first version will have a moving Y platform, like Mendel.  But MakerBot have taken Ed Sells' idea of building on a conveyor belt and made it work, so I think replacing the Y motion with a belt will follow soon after.

Labels: Huxley, OpenSCAD, slide bearings

I've moved the Mini-Mendel page on the Wiki to form a Huxley page here:

http://reprap.org/wiki/Huxley

This is where development of the new machine will be centred. Many people (particularly Erik) have already done a lot of work on Ed's original design.

Please add to their efforts!

Labels: Huxley, RepRap 3, RepRap III