Fabrication

Competitions

Tissue Engineering

Deposition of living biological tissue.

Polymer Working Group

Plastics, Epoxies, Resins, Photopolymerization, etc - Research, Development, Use, and Analysis -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Plastics

Plastic Extruder Working Group

Plastic Extruders, mostly - > http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Extruder

Paste Extrusion Working Group

(Contents under pressure) -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Paste_Extrusion

Shape Deposition Manufacturing Working Group

http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Shape_Deposition_Manufacturing

Casting and Moldmaking Working Group

Casting -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Casting Moldmaking -> http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Molds

Powder Printing and Selective Laser Sintering

You lay down a layer of powder, you fuse particles, you repeat.

Wire and Thread Embedded Extrusion

Add a new print head to the Reprap, capable of laying wire/thread materials directly from a spool into a printed part!

CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping

Have you tried bolting a dremel or router to your RepRap? Can you engrave and drill PCBs? Or cut wood, or ... steel? (Or do you have a commercial mill or CNC router?)

Laser Cutter Working Group

http://reprap.org/wiki/Laser_Cutter

Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)

Here we'll try to put stuff onto boards and bake them. With robots! And toaster ovens! And we'll try to build other fabrication workcells and connect them together.