The RepRap Project

 
Reports and Documentation

More recent RepRap reports and documentation are also available at the RepRap Wiki.  Click that link for more information.  Reports on this page pre-date the setting up of the wiki, and are gradually being migrated across to it.

All the RepRap documents are covered by the GNU General Public Licence.  For this purpose the words "software" and "library" in the GPL are taken to mean any and all data results documents and other information available from the RepRap website at http://reprap.org.
  1. One-page project summary.  This is an executive summary of the project intended to give the reader a quick overview.
  2. Rapid Prototyped Electronic Circuits.  University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering Technical Report 01/04 by Ed Sells in .doc format for Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.  This is a detailed report on Stage One of the RepRap Project, which is now complete (see the link Progress and Plans on the left).

  3. Rapid Prototyping Electronic Circuits: Supplementary Manual by Ed Sells in .doc format for Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.

  4. Seminar slides.  These are the slides (in sxi format for OpenOffice) for a seminar on the project given at Bath University on 9 March 2005 by Adrian Bowyer.
  5. Press release.  This is in .doc format for Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.  It was put out by the Bath University Press Office after the BBC Radio 4 Designs on Nature programme that featured the project.
  6. Construction of Rapid-Prototyping Testbeds Using Meccano by Vik Olliver.  This is Vik's report on his wonderful RP material deposition system made from a glue gun and Meccano.
  7. Initial Experience with Varkon by Dick Steffens.  This is Dick's report on the Varkon CAD system and its potential for use in RepRap. 
  8. Construction of PCBs using Silver Paint and EVA Hot-melt Glue by Vik Olliver.  This is Vik's report on his idea of making a soft PCB with embedded silver tracks that could be pierced by component pins to make contact.  The whole thing lends itself neatly to RP construction.
  9. Turntable Proposal by Hans Wargers.  Hans has done a simple-to-make turntable design that might be used in a rotary RepRap.
  10. How to turn on a lathe without one by Vik Olliver.  This is Vik's report on what he calls the "Afghan Lathe".  Preliminary RepRap designs call for just two (2) turned components.  This shows how to make them without buying an expensive machine tool.
  11. The RepRap Polymer Extruder Head by Adrian Bowyer. This is the complete design and instructions for the manufacture of Version 1 of the RepRap machine's polymer extrusion head, complete with downloads for all its CAD files, electronics, and software.