Comments on: This printed life http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/02/04/this-printed-life/ contemporary metamorphoses Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ian Milliss http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/02/04/this-printed-life/#comment-423 Ian Milliss Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:05:06 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/02/04/this-printed-life/#comment-423 The Tommelise site is very interesting. I've been collecting bookmarks to do a series of posts on open source design and manufacturing so if you want to contribute anything to that please feel free and keep us in touch with your project. The Tommelise site is very interesting. I’ve been collecting bookmarks to do a series of posts on open source design and manufacturing so if you want to contribute anything to that please feel free and keep us in touch with your project.

]]> By: Forrest Higgs http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/02/04/this-printed-life/#comment-408 Forrest Higgs Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:11:13 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/02/04/this-printed-life/#comment-408 Fab@Home is really only a DIY 3D printer. If you find fab@home impressive but would actually like a replicator of sorts you might also want to take at look at the RepRap project out of the University of Bath in the UK... http://reprap.org Their soon-to-be released machine is also open source, has a proper plastics extruder presently qualified for polycapralactone which can make usuable, hard objects. Whereas the fab@home machine costs $2,400 for parts, the RepRap Darwin is on track to cost no more than $400. A spinoff of the RepRap project, Tommelise, is focussed on the American parts environment and uses somewhat different technology and a different control strategy. It's also an open source specification will let anybody with a few hand tools and primitive woodworking skills bootstrap themselves into 3D fabrication for about $150. Tommelise's extruder is qualified for polycapralactone and is presently being qualified as well for both high density polypropylene (HDPE, the stuff your plastic cutting board is made of) and polypropylene (HPP, the stuff your coffee maker and plastic electric kettle is made of). You can keep an eye on the Tommelise project at... http://3dReplicators.com Both of these machines are designed to be able to reproduce most of their own parts as well as make any number of other useful things for you. Have fun! Fab@Home is really only a DIY 3D printer. If you find fab@home impressive but would actually like a replicator of sorts you might also want to take at look at the RepRap project out of the University of Bath in the UK…

http://reprap.org

Their soon-to-be released machine is also open source, has a proper plastics extruder presently qualified for polycapralactone which can make usuable, hard objects. Whereas the fab@home machine costs $2,400 for parts, the RepRap Darwin is on track to cost no more than $400.

A spinoff of the RepRap project, Tommelise, is focussed on the American parts environment and uses somewhat different technology and a different control strategy. It’s also an open source specification will let anybody with a few hand tools and primitive woodworking skills bootstrap themselves into 3D fabrication for about $150. Tommelise’s extruder is qualified for polycapralactone and is presently being qualified as well for both high density polypropylene (HDPE, the stuff your plastic cutting board is made of) and polypropylene (HPP, the stuff your coffee maker and plastic electric kettle is made of). You can keep an eye on the Tommelise project at…

http://3dReplicators.com

Both of these machines are designed to be able to reproduce most of their own parts as well as make any number of other useful things for you. Have fun!

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