RepRap: Blog

Are you designing your own heated bed? Do you have a perfect one already?

Or have you simply eliminated several blind alleys? ("Wow, that magnesium really didn't want to stop burning, did it?")

Please come check out the Heated Bed Forum Thread and the associated Heated Bed wiki page.

Similarly, we're about to drop the McWire RepStrap like a slowly moving and generally unsatisfactory hot potato. And we want to hear what you are building instead as a bootstrap RepRap machine.

Discussion: McWire Successor Forum Thread

By the way - we're nearly done with the server stuff to really open up the RepRap project to user contribution*, in part by actually making use of the mediawiki that we're moving into.

In the meantime, let me remind you that you're already very welcome to go to http://objects.reprap.org, poke around, log in and click "edit", or create a new page for your RepStrap, post-mendel RepRap, RepRap-related or RepRappable project. Or simply your version of the ideal heated bed, RepStrap, and so on.

If you're not working on the Heated Bed or the RepStrap to beat all RepStraps, but you have a good project, try starting a new working group in the Forum, (and a new wiki page).

* While at the same time, making sure that the Mendel docs still work and are somewhat stable. (That's the tricky part - I've always heard stability is supposed to be a good thing for documentation.)

Labels: heated bed, mcwire, wiki

Today we launch the RepRap Builder's Wiki. Here anyone can post any RepRap information that will be helpful to the RepRap community.

Don't be frightened to tidy, to re-organize, to correct and to clarify the work of others, but don't delete anything without good reason (good reasons are things like the post is offensive, is spam, or is scientifically incorrect).

By all means include lasting information that has previously appeared in the Main Blog, the Builder's Blog or the Forums - we want to systematize that in a chronologically-independent way on the Builder's Wiki. But please don't post questions (they belong on the Forums) or information that is transient. Indeed, if all you do is to take some nugget from one of those sources that you personally have found useful and post it on the new Wiki, you will be doing everyone else a great service.

If you post, please include as many pictures and diagrams as you can; these really help understanding. Remember that you can freely copy any images and text from any other part of the RepRap website - it's all covered by the GPL.

Labels: builders, wiki