3D Printing a chess pawn with my RepRap

[mcrapattack]

Where does one get these in australia?

[Lomitzu]

Thanks for the video... Print a tripod next?

[FPEvideos]

Is the Rep Rap capable of printing a full 90 degree overhang? If not, whats the steepest overhang its capable of doing?

[gayegotica]

you fucking want you fucking lose.

[TwoDogsX2]

looks like a bit of nozzle salad

[12enma12]

is this printer...

same like =

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[Matrix29bear]

You need to print up a tripod for your camera.

[slashsven]

what did i miss?? did i live under a rock for 500 years and woke up and.. .. we can print all kinds of shit, and everybody is like: jea so what..

[SiYanara]

Is the plastic a liquid?

[KennYA51]

Mmm i wonder if colour printing is possible. You could simply have a red, green and blue ABS, and let it mix together. But it may be hard with complex colour mixes.

[Al3xHarmon]

@KennYA51 I was reading somewhere... wikipedia I believe...

"One method of 3D printing consists of an inkjet printing system. The printer creates the model one layer at a time by spreading a layer of powder (plaster, or resins) and inkjet printing a binder in the cross-section of the part. The process is repeated until every layer is printed. This technology is the only one that allows for the printing of full colour prototypes. This method also allows overhangs."

[lluhu]

hi everybody, any machine in London or near to make a simple test of our project in a Reprap? Of course help will be paid.

Thanks

[Scerab]

how long did this take?

[0carou]

what do you feel gives you a better product overall, the reprap or the maker bot>?

[Erikdb]

@0carou It's slightly more complicated. A RepRap is upgradable with the parts that you can print. Its quality can improve much after it is first built. The Makerbot is bought and is pretty standardized, it allows you to more quickly get nice results. They also use bearings in some places where this improves quality. The new RepRap Mendel design also uses more bearings, so this is very good.

Some people with RepRaps have better quality than the average MB. Some MBs are better than the avg. RR :)

[Erikdb]

@0carou If you build a Makerbot you probably use the kit's parts and get a pretty decently functioning 3D printer. With a RepRap you can go the low cost route and spend a lot of time tuning and get a worse or similar result. Or you can optimze your RepRap to have a higher quality. But this really takes some time and investment. Luckily the design is improving. Most of my prints are done with the Darwin design, there's a second version that I printed too which I haven't used as much for printing.

[Xerock]

wow.. people could pirate games workshop figurines with this thing.

[exodous02]

Not quite there yet, but it's getting closer. Commercial ones are just getting to that point, they aren't even there yet, but I'm optimistic. Imagine downloading an entire Warhammer army and printing them, out of recycled milk cartons none the less.

[Dark0Lord7]

which material did u use? wax?

[Erikdb]

No, this is ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). It's one of the most common engineering thermoplastics, used in enclosures and also for most lego bricks. It's nice and tough.

Wax should also be possible with a different material feed mechanism.

[JF1288]

Neat. If you didn't constantly move the camera, this would have been an A+ demo of reprapping

[EasternCalifornia]

It's actually the base of the reprap moving dingus, I give it an A+

[RepRapChannel]

What did you expect? It's exactly what it says in the title.

[anteracmacash]

well I certanly didn't expect a electronic toothpaste machine filled with some kind of plastic...I expected printing not squitring

[ScottMcTony]

Wait, what exactly was your idea of 3D printing then? An automated origami machine?

I know your comment is some months old but I'm just so perplexed. I only hope you remember what (probably nonsensical) notion you had.

[anteracmacash]

I was expecting somethin more accurate...this machine is nothing else but a waste of time...all of those things made with the 3d printer can be made out of moldes with a lot more precision and better quality

[ScottMcTony]

You are aware that it's a chess pawn, right? And notice it did everything completely accurately within that level of detail. You're calling the machine useless because the object it was set to print didn't have all kinds of fine details? What?

[ScottMcTony]

I mean, it's not fantastic, and this one probably wouldn't work too well if it did have all kinds of fine details, but it's sort of budding technology, you know?

[anteracmacash]

take a look at the surface...the machine is just a waste of time, space and money...

[JohnWestMinor]

Yeah, you are retarded.

[anteracmacash]

yeah...I'm the idiot that would spend money on this piece of shit...

[JohnWestMinor]

@anteracmacash

You also fail to realize that the Mendel and similar machines can have their extruders replaced with spindles and become almost commercial quality milling machines. The 3D printing aspect is important and useful because it covers many of the weaknesses in the types of objects a milling machine can make.

Research the damn thing before you start calling it useless.

[anteracmacash]

@JohnWestMinor this thing right here can't do shit...maby a mutch better, more accurate and faster version but defenetly not the one shown in the video...

[JohnWestMinor]

@anteracmacash

And yet the guy who made the machine probably has a chess set now.

The RepRap in the video is about as accurate as any 3D printer gets, commercial or otherwise. If you're bitching at the quality of that pawn, then you're just goddamn well impossible to please.

[anteracmacash]

@JohnWestMinor it's easy as shit to make chess pawns and yet this machine fails at it...how can you expect it to do any other forms better in any way then the machines ment to do them since it takes forever to make a badly shaped chess pawn ???

[JohnWestMinor]

@anteracmacash

Let's see.

Pros:

Can make detailed and functional parts while you do something else.

Can be used as a milling machine.

Not everything is easy to make by hand.

Cons:

You might have to sand it a little to make it look perfect.

You're a moron.

[anteracmacash]

@JohnWestMinor who's talking about making by hand ??? I'm talking about programed machines that cut out or press with mutch more speed and accuracy and that recicle access material for some nother time, you idiot...

[JohnWestMinor]

@anteracmacash

And how much do those machines cost? How accessible are they to the general public? How easy is it to work with them? Can they be kept in a generic workshop?

[anteracmacash]

@JohnWestMinor all ov the above can be said fot the machine in the video...they don't need to be big facotry machines...but simple small machine for working at home...

[DarkPlagueStudios]

@JohnWestMinor

520$ roughly for the latest model reprap(dot)org

Very accessible to the general public and very easy to work with.

[JohnWestMinor]

Are you retarded? The beauty of this machine is that you can make stuff from your own home.

Molds and injection molding are highly expensive, especially for small runs, and require some dangerous equipment.

[IgorAmokian]

if you post comments like these, i guess not much was wasted at all :)

[Erikdb]

Tnx. Yes, it was simply hand held. That's why its not too steady.

[GraemearG]

Hey, good video, but was the camera handheld? :P

Out of interest, how long did that take to print?

Thanks

[Erikdb]

It took about 25 minutes. I've sped it up to take about 15 minutes now with the same quality.