As part of the current RRRF transformation, I’m happy to officially announce what has been long-standing RRRF tradition. We are now opening up our prototyping services to the community and spelling out exactly what things we can do (PCB fab, lasercutting, 3D printing, etc) and how you can go about using us to help [...]
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As promised, here is the latest batch of PCB prototypes for the 3rd generation electronics:
RepRap Motherboard v1.1 - onboard Sanguino, RS485, stepper headers, RJ45 jacks and a real ATX power supply header. it can even control the power supply on/off programmatically. rad.
Extruder Controller v2.1 - onboard Arduino, RS485, one cable connection for power+comms [...]
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I’m happy to announce some big changes that are happening with the RepRap Research Foundation and my involvement with the RepRap project in general. For those of you that wish to skip the lengthy blog post on what is happening, I’ll spill the beans now: the RepRap Research Foundation is transitioning from a [...]
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Date: 8-Mar-09
Present:
Zach Hoeken, Adrian Bowyer, Simon McAuliffe, Vik Oliver, Ed Sells (sec)
Meeting called by: Zach Hoeken
Purpose: To discuss the future of the RRRF with respect to Zach’s move towards MakerBot Industries
Zach proposed:
1. The RRRF should move from a parts clearing house to doing more pure research.
2. The RRRF should continue to distribute the results of [...]
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