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Mendel - Under Development

Mendel is the version 2 RepRap. Some ideas have been kicked around the core team, Ed has done some designs, and these are starting to be printed out. The same electronics will do for the moment. Extra heads and servos etc. can come later. With no better place to put development stuff, I've created this wiki page.

Mendel looks smaller than Darwin, and is. But the frame actually has more printable area in it than the Darwin, where the head and carriage clashed with the frame, limiting movement. The Z motor also took up a lot of build height in the original Darwin, and Ed has fixed that too.

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w0pYYVNavoE/So5n3cEzjII/AAAAAAAAA20/DnKf5Gn-M5M/s1600-h/dsc04806.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w0pYYVNavoE/So5n3cEzjII/AAAAAAAAA20/DnKf5Gn-M5M/s200/dsc04806.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372345607626394754" /></a>Vik is currently building a Mendel frame to test out movement with stepper motors, and to deploy just the one static head.

-- Main.VikOlliver - 21 Aug 2009