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Public Group active 4 days, 18 hours agoInterested in experimentation and building machinery that can self replicate ?
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Janine Kirby started the forum topic RepRap at the Open Lab – Saturday 12 May in the group
RepRap 1 week, 2 days agoIt has been a busy day at the open lab today. AJ brought along his machine, so with Andy’s and the Gist Lab’s there were three here. The build of the GistLab’s machine has progressed with all the axis re-built […]
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Janine Kirby started the forum topic Shh Makers – Monday 23 April in the group
RepRap 1 week, 2 days agoA belated post from the last Monday meeting
Heath and Safety was on the agenda this month – with the RepRap nearing completion, thoughts turned to the areas of the RepRap that we need to take care with.
The […]
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Peter Czerwinski posted an update in the group
RepRap: 1 week, 6 days ago ago · updated 1 week, 3 days ago agoStruggling to find a suitable bit of Aluminium for heatsinking my 2N3055 … I may have to resort to buying an actual TO3 heatsink …
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Gervase Markham posted an update in the group
RepRap: 2 weeks ago ago · updated 2 weeks ago agoAre you guys pretty much focussed on RepRaps specifically, or are there people with MakerBots and other types of 3D printer involved?
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Gervase, We are pretty design agnostic at the group. All are welcome. There is a great variety of design represented within the group. The technology is pretty much the same across designs, Which actual design members go for is pretty much personal preference.
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Rob Whiteside posted an update in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 2 weeks ago ago · updated 1 month ago agoCouldn’t make the saturday the 3rd but looking forward to the 26th! Thanks to Andy for helping on the previous monday. Proved the motors and drivers and got the correct firmware loaded and now talking to my Gen 3 with ReplicatorG, but now getting toolhead not recognised! What does everyone else use/recommend? On top of that my H21LOB on my end…[Read more]
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A low tech option is to use micro switches and debounce them using a simple resitor and capacitor across the contacts. This is what I use. This method still uses 3 wires per switch.
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martin wass posted an update in the group
RepRap: 1 month, 2 weeks ago ago · updated 1 month ago agoIs there an appetite for a RepRap building weekend outside of the Festival? I understand Jean Marc is snowed under but Dr. Adrian Bowyer is offering RepRap build events on his website http://reprappro.com/Training These are quite expensive; ~£950, but with a pretty good promise that there will be working RepRaps at the end of the Event.
‘We will…[Read more]
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That is a good question, and I don’t have a ready answer. Worth discussin it with other folk at the meet-ups though to get a feel for what is too much.
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Ryan McClean posted an update in the group
RepRap: 1 month, 2 weeks ago ago · updated 1 month ago agoHello,
I am wanting to upgrade my Prusa to have LM8UU bearings i was wondering if somebody could print me the X Y Z parts in order to do this i would like to have a horizontal X. I just snapped a couple 8mm bar clamps so it would be good to have some of these also. I will be happy to pay for the parts.
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Hi Ryan
There is a bag of reject parts at the Gist Lab that Nophead donated on his last visit. Some are LM8UU and som can be adapted. If you want to buy in a set I can not think of a better person to print them for you at the moment than Nophead. He will print the ballance of parts that anyone needs, contact him for a quote. The standard LM8UU…[Read more]
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Peter Czerwinski posted an update in the group
RepRap: 1 month ago ago · updated 1 month ago agoHave got most of the bits for a heated bed PSU. Still need to source a beefy enough transformer though.
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Pete
Options for 12V at enough current to run a heated bed.
Transformer, being a high-ish current requirement and high current transfromers being expensive, best route would be a reclaimed/repurposed one. It could be worth your while to contact the folk at Access Space (I think Martin and John Mosely from this group participate there too) as…[Read more]
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Jag Goraya started the forum topic Open Lab – Sat 14 April in the group
RepRap: 1 month, 1 week agoOpen Lab is back to its regular 2nd Saturday slot this month – 10am-4pm on Sat 14 April.
The GIST Lab is open for any projects folk want to come down and collaborate on, including (but not only) the RepRap build and the Sheffield Mobile App.Let us know you are coming here: http://openlabsheffield1204.eventbrite.co.uk/
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Janine Kirby posted an update in the group
RepRap: 2 months ago ago · updated 1 month, 4 weeks ago agoNext meeting is on Monday 26 March (i.e. NEXT WEEK!)
On the agenda is the outcome of the Festival of the Mind funding bid and planning for the next Open Lab.
Look forward to seeing you there!
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Best of luck for Monday everyone – sorry I won’t be able to make it!
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Janine Kirby posted an update in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 2 weeks agoDear Anoush (and Friends),
We would be happy to welcome you to the next RepRap meeting, which will be on Monday 26 March at 1830.
It is likely that there will not be a working RepRap there during the evening, as it is a shorter session. However, we have an Open Lab on Saturday 14th April, from 10am to 4pm, at which we will be bringing our own…[Read more]
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Anoush Mortazavi started the forum topic RepRap Demonstration in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 2 weeks agoHello! I’m studying MA Industrial Design at Sheffield Hallam University, undertaking a Rapid Prototyping research project. I thought I’d broaden my interest into RepRap.
Could I (and possibly, three others) come to your next meeting to see a RepRap machine in action please?
Cheers, and much appreciated!
Anoush
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Janine Kirby posted on the forum topic Open Lab! TODAY!! (Saturday 3 March) in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 2 weeks agoAll going well here today. We’ve had Andy’s machine printing out the last bracket for attaching the baseboard to the machine. We are now attaching the brackets to the baseboard – AJ is doing a sterling job with the drill, dremmel and screwdriver, though not all at the same time! Ed is busy soldering wires [...]
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Janine Kirby started the forum topic Open Lab! TODAY!! (Saturday 3 March) in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 2 weeks agoTwo RepRaps, two Arduino projects, lots of enthusiasm and one of the RepRap’s printing!!
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Janine Kirby posted on the forum topic Meeting 27 February 2012 in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 2 weeks agoHad a good meeting; fitted the fan to the RepRap, fitted the LM8UU bearings to the RepRap and looked on thingiverse for the brackets required to fit the heated bed. We then had a chat about what to do on today’s Open Lab. We have also had a visit from another part-built machine and it’s, [...]
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Janine Kirby started the forum topic Meeting 27 February 2012 in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 3 weeks agoApologies – the agenda I sent out seems to have disappeared somewhere in the internet!! Agenda is: Welcome Aims for the Monday evenings, given the build days now in progress – Tutorials, Arduinos, Show and Tell??? Plans for Build Day (as part of the Open Lab) on 3rd March – PLEASE SIGN UP!! Please note [...]
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Peter Czerwinski posted on the forum topic RepRap Build Days! in the group
RepRap: 2 months, 3 weeks agoWill be bringing some test gear to the event on 27 Feb. Multimeter, Scope, Logic Probe, etc; should anyone need to measure something.
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Pete, I have dug out a couple of pieces of aluminium that should do. I will brign them along to the build day tomorrow.