hello,
i read about the reprap project and i think its great!
i'd like to help out if possible. this project is something i've
dreamed about for a while =) anyways... i'll get down to business
here. imho the syringe pump design looks like it would work well.
since we're basically building a rapid prototype machine out of
rapidly prototypable parts, we should get a cad model of the parts
made. We have a rapid prototyper here at my school and it would be
cool if i could download the plans and work on it.
for the file format part if we are using standard openRP files then
the program that creates it is irrelevant. it would be nice to have
one to point to people and say 'this is a good one'. i tried a few
and blender seems to be the most mature project. the main problem i
had was just not knowing how to manipulate objects... there seems to
be a steep learning curve but that isnt too major of a problem.
if we use the ldvt calibration and control method, then hopefully it
would be possible to reprap the whole thing w/o much assembly. from
what i gather it allows you to energize the coils to move the unit
linearly. that would be awesome and would allow us to not have to buy
as many motors since we could print it out. i've enclosed a very
rough image of what i think would be a starting point. i'd love to
get this into a cad program and see what we could really do.
~Zach
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