Cost of the Rep Rap machine
Posted by Mathijs van Meerkerk
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Cost of the Rep Rap machine October 12, 2009 04:56PM |
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Re: Cost of the Rep Rap machine October 13, 2009 04:18AM |
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This depends on how you plan to build one. Does your university have a 3d printer on which you can print all RP parts for free? That would take out most of the problems and costs. Whats left is 300-400€ in hardware and electronics as far as I understand.
You could look at the makerbot shop, there you can buy most of the electronics and an extruder.
You could look at the makerbot shop, there you can buy most of the electronics and an extruder.
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Re: Cost of the Rep Rap machine October 13, 2009 09:02AM |
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Re: Cost of the Rep Rap machine October 18, 2009 03:35PM |
Hi Mendel has recently been costed at £398, probably much cheaper if you shop around for parts. Unfortunately this includes only £20 for the replicated parts. This is about the cost of the ABS plastic to make them.
The sub-£400 price tag is very attractive but the number of new machines will be limited by the number of machines available to create the kits of replicated parts. :-(
If someone creates a lasercut version, as was done with the Darwin, this would be a significant help.
The problem may be reduced by finding replacements for some of the replicated parts.
It may be possible to get some components injection moulded. Perhaps by getting a few keen souls to pay in advance to secure the finance. Perhaps a simple component, multiple copies of which are needed in the Mendel.
We might create alternate instructions to replace some of the less critical parts with hand made parts. A kind of hybrid repstrap using fewer replicated parts.
If we can find alternatives for some of the replicated components we can increase the rate at which we can get kits out there.
Most of all perhaps, we'll have to each make sure we print of a kit as soon as we get ours running.
ps. How long does it take for a Mendel to produce a kit of Mendel parts ?
The sub-£400 price tag is very attractive but the number of new machines will be limited by the number of machines available to create the kits of replicated parts. :-(
If someone creates a lasercut version, as was done with the Darwin, this would be a significant help.
The problem may be reduced by finding replacements for some of the replicated parts.
It may be possible to get some components injection moulded. Perhaps by getting a few keen souls to pay in advance to secure the finance. Perhaps a simple component, multiple copies of which are needed in the Mendel.
We might create alternate instructions to replace some of the less critical parts with hand made parts. A kind of hybrid repstrap using fewer replicated parts.
If we can find alternatives for some of the replicated components we can increase the rate at which we can get kits out there.
Most of all perhaps, we'll have to each make sure we print of a kit as soon as we get ours running.
ps. How long does it take for a Mendel to produce a kit of Mendel parts ?
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