http://www.rrrf.org Serving the RepRap community since 2007 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:43:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got back from vacation on Sunday. I had a fantastic time driving through the Pacific Northwest. Lots of gorgeous scenery. Anyway, I'm finally almost caught up with things. I only have about 19 / 50 orders left to ship and those are all just waiting ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/08/27/im-back-2/ Good news! Today is my last day at Vimeo. While I'm sad to leave such a fun and awesome company, I'm even more excited to be able to devote quite a bit more time to my true passion: building self-replicating 3D printers. It may not be obvious, but I've ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/08/15/i-quit-my-job/ Opto Endstops This is bad news with a bit of good/optimistic news. The bad news is that we've bought out all of the H21LOI chips from every North American supplier. Lead times from the manufacturer are about 34 weeks. The good news is that we managed to buy ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/08/13/product-updates/ Hey Boss, I'm going on vacation! I'm leaving NYC on Saturday, August 16th. I'm flying to Portland, Oregon with my wonderful girlfriend, Jen. We're renting a convertible, and we're driving down to San Francisco over the course of a week, camping and enjoying ourselves along the way. ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/08/12/vacation-notice/ I'm really really really excited to announce this new product. This one was directly conceived, funded, and produced here by the RRRF as a direct result of the kind souls who have supported us so far. To get to the meat, the Sanguino is a new microcontroller board ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/08/08/new-product-sanguino-v10/ Magnetic Rotary Encoder v1.0 I'm proud to announce a new kit today that is the result of a couple of months of solid work. It is called the Magnetic Rotary Encoder, and it is awesome! When assembled, this board provides positioning feedback in multiple data formats. It uses ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/07/13/new-products-magnetic-rotary-encoder-and-donations/ After a little hiccup, I re-ordered some more GM3 gearmotors, except this time, these motors are 12v, instead of the standard motor designed for 6v. This means that they will be more reliable, last longer, and just generally be more awesome. I forgot to get a picture of ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/07/02/12v-gm3-gearmotors-now-in-stock/ Whew! I finally managed to catch up on orders and assemble 100 more stepper motor driver kits. The end result is that there are now 25 complete reprap electronic kits available for sale. The biggest holdup was a 10 day wait to get new PCBs made, ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/06/22/complete-electronics-kits-back-in-stock/ I'm proud to announce a new board developed by the RRRF today, the Opto Isolator v1.0. It is an opto isolator board which is useful for many things when you want to build safe, noise-free electronics. It has 4 channels of opto isolation and is our first board ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/06/20/opto-isolator-v10-kits-available/ I'm proud to announce that we finally have a kit available of all the electronics you'll need to build a RepRap machine! This is a big step forward, and is something we've been slowly working toward for an entire year now. Each kit contains all the electronic components, ... http://www.rrrf.org/2008/06/05/complete-electronics-kit-available/