1 Welcome!
2 What's New?
3 Printiverse
- 3.1 Submission Process
4 Electronics & Software
5 Members and Alumni
6 Projects & Exceptional Edits
7 Our Prototyping Systems
8 Printer Status
9 Page Map
10 Useful Links
- 10.1 Forum/Mailing List

Welcome!

Welcome to the State College RepRap User's Group Wiki!

Our meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month at 7pm at The Make Space, downtown in the alley behind Green Bowl and the Fraser Street garage.

Thank you for visiting our page. We are a group of RepRap users based out of Penn State & the State College area. We participate in designing new parts and improvements for RepRap and have created a new merging of the Mendel and Prusa RepRap designs which we call the Open Hybrid Mendel, or OHM for short. We also are developing the RepRap Mullis as a low-cost laboratory robot capable of preforming DNA amplification via a polymerase chain reaction.

Our project is combined with class offerings at Penn State, so if you are interested and attend PSU be sure to contact us for information!

What's New?

For what used to be new, check PSU RUG History.

12.13.12 Printer showcase in the Engineering Design Expo at the Bryce Jordan Center.
11.28.12 Samantha Yuhas had her article about EDSGN 497D published in Onward State.

11.12.12: Participation in the PSU Hackathon.
9.17.12: Prior newslines archived.

Printiverse

A picture of the Printiverse homepage.

Printiverse is the website for the 3D printing service hosted here at Penn State where students and faculty can submit orders for their designs to be 3D printed. In addition the website also contains a database of the prints that have been completed as well.

Submission Process

All order submissions go through a four step process known as; Pending, Approved, In Progress, and Complete.

Pending: The designs are simply in the queue waiting to be evaluated by the print service to see if it passes specifications, if specifications are not passed the designer is informed of design problems and encouraged to resubmit.

Approved: Once past inspections the designs are in a queue waiting to be assigned a member of the print service team.

In Progress: A member of the print service team has been assigned to print the submission and it is being printed by one of the machines.

Complete: The submission is printed and ready for pickup, in addition the Printiverse database is updated with a picture and relevant information.

Electronics & Software

All information about our electronics including firmware that we use can be found here.

Anything and everything that deals with software will be here eventually. (WIP)

REPSNAPPER: Here is a basic video tutorial to help you get started!

Members and Alumni

Most SCRUG members are/were students of Penn State's 400 level Edsgn course called "Open Source 3D Printing." On their user pages, you can find blog responses about many of the topics covered in the course.

Projects & Exceptional Edits

PROJECTS
Solidworks OHM	Fully assembled OHM in SolidWorks.
Mullis	Open Source PCR machine.
Hot Tip	Hot Tip project.
Base Plate	Base Plate project.
TechZone Projects	Projects from TechZone we have completed or plan on undertaking.
Razor Blade Designs	These are designs for razorblade holders designed by our 497D class.
Pen Plotter	A design for a universal pen holder. STL files posted.
CAD files	Posting Page for CAD files.
Dual Extruder	Development of a dual extrusion system for existing machines.
Waste Reclamation System	Discussion on recycling print material.
Stepper Paste Extruder	Development of paste extruder driven by a stepper motor.
Vertex Parametrization	Development of OpenSCAD code for variable-angle vertices.

Our Prototyping Systems

Operating Specifications (Update info on individual pages)
Unit Zero	Unit One	PSU Mendel Alpha	PSU Mendel Beta
PSU Huxley	PSU Fab@Home	PSU Unit Zeta	PSU Unit Green
PSU Unit White	PSU Unit Clear	PSU Unit Mondo	PSU Unit Orange
PSU Unit Silver	PSU Unit MakerBot ToM Mk6+ PSU Unit MakerBot Cupcake Gen 3	PSU Unit Yellow	PSU Unit Rainbow
PSU Big Red	PSU Unit Purple	PSU Orange 2

Printer Status

This page was the home of the PSU MakerBot printers. They have since been moved to two separate pages.

Operating Specifications (Update info on individual pages)
Name	Status	Design	Electronics	Firmware	Extruder	Temperature	Comments
Alpha	Wood	?	?
Beta	Wood	.35mm	220C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS	Marlin
Huxley
Black	Black	.35mm	220C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS	Marlin
White	White	.35mm	Hot Tip: 205C Bed: 55C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS 1.4	Marlin
Clear	Clear	.35mm	220C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS	Marlin
Green	Green	?	?
Mondo	Wood	?	?
Yellow & Green	Yellow & Green	.40mm	185C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS	Marlin
Silver	Silver	?	?
Orange	Orange	?	?
Rainbow	Rainbow	.5mm (TBD since the "new" hot end had filament stuck inside)	203C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS	Marlin
Gold	Gold	.35mm	200C	Open Hybrid Mendel	RAMPS 1.4	Marlin
Big Red	Red	.35mm	210C	Open Hybrid Mendel	Rambo	Marlin
Fab@Home	Fab@Home V2