User:Vincenticart

Vincent Icart RepRap Wiki

RepRap User: Vincent Icart
University	Penn State
Class of	Summer Internship 2014
Major	General Engineering, École Centrale de Marseille[1]

About

The purpose of my internship is to do research on open-source 3D printing. I was in a Fablab in my university back in France where we used an Ultimaker and CubeX Duo. I didn't have any hands on experience on Repraps before arriving here, so the first weeks were dedicated to understand and get confortable with the use of these machines. Then, I could start trying to fix the different machines in the lab along by working on anxiliary projects. Below are the main progresses on the printers.

Rainbow

Rainbow was close from working when I got here. Here is a list of the most important works done on the printer :

- equipped with the fan
- reflashing
- calibration
- squarring the frame
- removing and putting back on the extruder as it was clogged

The printer is now printing well, although the calibration part shows that best results could be acquired if the axis were squarred more accurately. Besides, the hot tip will certainly need to be rewired as a random short can appear anytime and induce the prints to be stopped.