Research and Development in Self-Replicating Open-Source 3D Printing
For an introduction, all the documentation on this project, and to read what we did up to this point see our Github repository here. After a year-and-a-half gap (caused, inter alia, by the Covid pandemic) we have come back to
RepRap is the technology on which Josef Průša built his company, Prusa Research. A while ago, in recognition of this, he very kindly gave Adrian a Prusa SL1 – one of his open-source stereolithography machines – and we have been
RepRap (and other) FFF 3D printers have had heated beds to ensure prints don’t peel off for a long time. I think they were invented by Chris Palmer (Nophead) in 2010. They have also had magnetic beds to hold
We now have a Github repository for all the work on this project here. See that link for the entire project log. If we want to print a shape, one of the things it would be useful to know is the