Makerbot Ind. - CupCake CNC

[pigeonfarmboy]

http://makerbot.com/

Any of you guys seen this rapid prototype homebrew? Can you say Instant Scale Doodads!?!?!? The travel is a bit small but it would make a bunch of stuff we like. Micro-sized stuff should all be easily doable.

It's almost like they know I want to spend $1000 on one.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDZLwaDzys

Pretty cool application of how this thing can be a great tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBzyZSVK_Gs&NR=1

[Culetto]

I was just thinking about these the other day. There was a big movement online a few years ago to make a self replicating machine like this. Im not sure how accurate it would be but I dont know how far the extruder technology has advanced. It was pretty primitive looking output last time i did the research.

[C*H*U*D]

I saw that awhile ago too. I'd be very interested in knowing how well it works. We have a 3D Printer at work, so I never thought about buying one.

[Culetto]

Here is the original one i was looking at a few years ago. RepRap. Again its very cool stuff, it does look like the parts are much higher accuracy now so it might be worth looking into.

[monkeyracer]

This thing is pretty cool, and doesn't look like it costs that much to get.

I can already think of some cool things we can make with this.

[roksloski]

Very cool machine....
but the Darth Vader head looked a bit rough... ( ruff )?

[Shoei1]

Just a less accurate version on this

http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-...ng-uprint.aspx

Still really cool though

[monkeyracer]

Originally Posted by roksloski

Very cool machine....
but the Darth Vader head looked a bit rough... ( ruff )?

I think that's because they used ABS for it, rather than I think Polystyrene. Different melting points... The other stuff made with it looks better, like the kitchen light bracket.

Originally Posted by Shoei1

Just a less accurate version on this

http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-...ng-uprint.aspx

Still really cool though

Ya, for 15X less money. For our purposes, I think it could be accurate enough.

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by Shoei1

Just a less accurate version on this

http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-...ng-uprint.aspx

Still really cool though

That's what we have (the larger elite version though). I have a few projects in mind for it

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by Culetto

Here is the original one i was looking at a few years ago. RepRap. Again its very cool stuff, it does look like the parts are much higher accuracy now so it might be worth looking into.

I know this is digging up the dead, but I came across the RepRap page this morning, and it got me to thinking about these again. Has anyone actually put one of these together? I've been snagging old discarded parts from work, and planned on building a CNC router table, but now I'm thinking instead of one of these.

[JKMotorsports]

The engineers and I at work have been contimplating one because we get offers from Alibre all the time. We just need to convince management as it alomost more of a toy in our industry.

[C*H*U*D]

The full assembly is available in Solidworks. A lot of the parts were designed to be printed (learn what a fillet is people!!!) but can easily be machined.

The mechanical construction would be no problem, and if I can get some help from toybuilder, it should be a pretty easy project. I can definitely see it coming in handy down in my Underground Lair.

[Crawling Calvin]

That looks pretty interesting. My question is if someone had say a Sherline CNC would it be possible to "toss" the spindle unit and throw a dispensing rig on there and have a 3D printer with full 3-4 axis control or no

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by Crawling Calvin

That looks pretty interesting. My question is if someone had say a Sherline CNC would it be possible to "toss" the spindle unit and throw a dispensing rig on there and have a 3D printer with full 3-4 axis control or no

There are kits to convert desktop mills...I saw it on the website.

[ToyTundra]

The surface finish of my employer's $30k 3d printer is pretty poor so i can't imagine a $1k unit performing any better. We farm out printing if a customer is going to see it. In my eyes $1k towards a mill would be a better use of funds.

[murdock]

Originally Posted by pigeonfarmboy

It's almost like they know I want to spend $1000 on one.......Martha Vader - A MakerBot sings the imperial march and makes - YouTube

Pretty cool application of how this thing can be a great tool Better Living With MakerBot - Episode 1: Kitchen Lamp - YouTube

cool! I found this after watching your vid, Small to tiny facemasks - YouTube, could also be useful in the scale section.

They can do full heads in many scales, maybe put my face on wild willy. hahaha.

thanks for sharing!

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by ToyTundra

The surface finish of my employer's $30k 3d printer is pretty poor so i can't imagine a $1k unit performing any better. We farm out printing if a customer is going to see it. In my eyes $1k towards a mill would be a better use of funds.

We have an expensive 3D printer at work, and I do agree that the surface finish isn't that great. But I wouldn't plan on making parts for use. The real purpose would be for rapid prototyping where surface finish wouldn't matter, and I'm sure I can make that printer for much less than $1K...I'm thinking more around $350.

Originally Posted by murdock

cool! I found this after watching your vid, Small to tiny facemasks - YouTube, could also be useful in the scale section.

They can do full heads in many scales, maybe put my face on wild willy. hahaha.

thanks for sharing!

That's cool!! Talk about scale realism. I want one of me for Hilux.

[ik632]

I have several printers here at work. One is the Bits For Bytes printer (same as the MakerBot). It's nice but you have to mess around with it quite a bit. If you want to print scale things it's super easy and they would look pretty good. Resolution can go down to 0.25mm/layer for smaller things. Larger things will be printed at 1mm/layer. Most of the time it's ABS so you can take the part, sand it down and then paint it when you're done. If you have your settings wrong for temp/feed/speed the part will unravel like a sweater. The other thing is the parts aren't super strong. You're not making a working part for suspension, all cosmetic mostly.

[toybuilder]

I found a complete kit at SeeMeCNC for $350.

SeeMeCNC H-1 Complete Kit

[GrimJeeper91]

I've got a high end, high resolution rapid prototyping system in my office and have often thought it would be nice to make some goodies for the RC. It prints in 0.0005" layers so the parts that come off it it have a great finish and it's capable of very fine detail. Good thing I'm not a scaler or I'd have loads of goodies on the Wraith...