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There’s been a nice flurry of activity over on the RepRap site (Link<\/a>); lots of parts being designed and sent out for fabrication to be used in the initial units, a growing RepRap wiki and another participant.<\/p>\n For anyone who remembers my post on the glue gun fabrication device back in April (Link<\/a>), Vic Olliver – it’s creator – has made excellent progress on the next, upgraded version. He’s also been posting entries on it’s development, including one on the gears shown above (Link<\/a>). The parts are all FDM this time around and are all ABS I believe, but they’ll be great for a first unit which can be used to take a first pass at creating parts using the final device’s intended material. It might take a few iterations on the design to get something that can create the bulk of its own parts (in order to rep<\/em>licate itself), but this is a great start.<\/p>\n {Image Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Vic Olliver}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s been a nice flurry of activity over on the RepRap site (Link); lots of parts being designed and sent out for fabrication to be used in the initial units, a growing RepRap wiki and another participant. For anyone who … Continue reading