DocumentationMain

Current Documentation and Software

Types of Plastic and Printing Materials

There are a few good candidates for main working material.

Videos and Movies

Here is where you can see RepRap in action.

FAQ

Commonly asked questions.

RepRap Control Software

The user interface to RepRap: how you sit at your PC and get it to build things.

RepRap modules

Details of the various modules in a RepRap and their command API.

Bootstrapping a RepRap machine

Making a RepRap machine when you don't have one to do it for you.

Make a JDM Programmer

A simple PIC programmer for bootstrapping a RepRap. In future the RepRap will includes its own PIC Programmer.

Developer Documentation

• Host controller API Documentation
• Details of the Subversion RepRap repository.
• Already Done List - There is quite a bit already done.
• To Do List - There's still quite a bit left to do.
• Design Hints for Art of Illusion (AoI)
  • Basic Hints for AoI
  • Designing Cog Gears and Cog Gear Trains
  • Designing Involute Profile Gear Pairs
  • Using AoI on Wintel machines
• Hints for using the Stratasys Dimension RP machine
• Overview of the firmware build process
• Style Guide - Keep it pretty =)
• IOBox Networked module that allows simple I/O for quick experimenting
• The RepRap Logo
• RP Orders for the RepRap team
• The SNAP communications protocol in the PIC firmware

Presentations and Talks

Here are the slides (usually in Open Office format) for talks and presentations given by members of the RepRap team at conferences and meetings.

• RepRap poster for use at conferences and exhibitions [[File:DocumentationMain-poster.odg and in pdf format.|thumb]]
• [[File:DocumentationMain-reprap.odp in OpenOffice format for a talk on RepRap given at Dyson in April 2007 by Adrian Bowyer.|thumb]]
• Seminar slides. These are the slides for a seminar on the project given at Bath University on 9 March 2005 by (AdrianBowyer).

• [[File:DocumentationMain-reflections-projections-2006-bowyer.odp - these are the slides for the talk on RepRap at the Refelctions || Projections 2006 ACM conference given by (AdrianBowyer).|thumb]]

• And here's a video of Adrian Bowyer's Refelctions || Projections presentation (150MB).

• Based on the above, Vik Olliver's "Printing a penguin" presentation to LinuxConf Australia 2007 (LCA2007) in Sydney, January 2007 in [[PDF and OpenDocument formats. Also available as cross-platform video (OGG).|thumb]]
• Paper on [[File:DocumentationMain-sells-bowyer.doc into polymer RP objects - Ed Sells & Adrian Bowyer: Directly incorporating electronics into conventional rapid prototypes, Proc. 7th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping & Manufacturing, Centre for Rapid Design and Manufacture, High Wycombe, June 2006.|thumb]]
• "Fabricating a Free World" Presentation for O'Reilly OSCON 2007 by Vik Olliver as [[PDF and OpenDocument.|thumb]]

Archived Documentation

Earlier versions of various RepRap documentation preserved here for historical reasons.

• Extruder Mk I
• Rapid Prototyped Electronic Circuits. University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering Technical Report 01/04 in .doc format for Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. This is a detailed report on Stage One of the RepRap Project, which is now complete. (EdSells)
• Rapid Prototyping Electronic Circuits: Supplementary Manual in .doc format for Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. (EdSells)
• Report in .doc format: Automatic deposition of molten alloy into a casting channel to create a (very) simple electro-mechanical component (May 2005). This was done on an axis designed for self-replication (EdSells).

ReallyOldStuff

Here you can find stuff from the really early days of RepRap. It's been moved here so the documentation page stays clear and concise.

-- Main.ForrestHiggs - 07 Sep 2006