The children are here!!

Hi there everyone!! Sorry that I haven't been posting as much lately, school has really been busy. Anyways I just wanted to announce that the children are here!! Yes the world's largest home brew Ultimaker has had baby's! Inside the designs that my dad and I made we were able to fit 4 other Ultimakers inside of the scrap, yes it was tight but we had them cut out with the big one. So now there are 4 smaller Ultimaker's out there in the world now. One of which belongs to the RepRap Kid himself, the second belongs to our friend Christian  from Make-It-Labs and then we have 2 other sets of parts, one for my dad and the last for the AS220 lab. So far only two have been assembled and functioned, the first being the RepRap kid's which I like to call the Bat Bot (Look at the Picture's I think you will notice why) and the second being Christians. These 2 printers have been constantly running and are working great! This is seriously my new favorite toy, we are still working on calibrating it as we go but so far it is not looking too bad! Be sure to check out the Pics below for a sample of what I have printed so far, I will be sure to put pics of Christian's printer tomorrow but in the meantime I hope you all enjoy looking at the awesome machine that is the Bat Bot!!

Mission: Maker Faire NYC 2012 = SUCCESS!!

Howdy there everyone!! It's been too long sorry about not posting lately life for the RepRap Kid has been quite busy! We went to Maker Faire NYC all weekend and it was fantastic, we had so many interviews from places like NBC, Wired Magazine, and Hack a Day! From the makers that started the 3D printing revolution in the US with the first Darwin RepRap, and the 3rd in the world presented their latest and greatest creation the Gigimaker. We were deciding on a name for our machine on the way to NYC and came up with the idea of calling it this. Oh and speaking of which be sure to look at the photos attached of the machine inside our CRV, that was a tight fit! But it was worth bringing it down to NYC, we met a lot of our friends from our 3D Printing group including our good friend Joseph Prussa the inventor of the Prussa 3D Printer. We also met up with our friends from Ultimaker who we were so glad to see, they thought our printer was a work art and they were proud to have their robot logo on the front panel. On top of seeing all of these incredible people we saw yet another, Ben Heck! This man is the inventor of the Xbox 360 Laptop and he has his own TV show, this man is awesome he thought our project was incredible! Overall tho this event was fantastic and I just wanna give a shout out to the two guys who that made this event possible! First off I would like to thank James Barkley yet again for taking the time to come and help us present our machine at both maker faires, and lastly I owe the biggest thanks to my dad who essentially made this dream of mine a reality THANKS DAD YOU ROCK!  Hope you like the pictures and be sure to check us out on all of the websites and places I mentioned we are out there now!

Maker Faire NYC 2012 Update

Hi there everyone!!! The RepRap kid is back in action!!! The finial touches are being made on our beast and we are pumped!! We are so excited to show everyone the product of last years dreams! We all hope you will join us on Saturday and Sunday at Maker Faire NYC 2012!! I will be sure to put pic's up as the day goes by, and just wanted to say thanks in advance to my good friend James Barkley who will be assisting us on our adventure this coming weekend!! Thanks James you rock!!!! 

The Crew!

Howdy world! Just wanted to say a special thank you to our great 3D printing friend James Barkley!! We are all at maker Faire RI today he has been a great help in getting our printer running today so thanks James!!

The moment we have all been waiting for!

Hello people of the 3D printing world!! You may have thought that the RepRap Kid has been dormant? Well that is in no way true! This has been the week of assembling, this week was the Finial Countdown! Today is Maker Faire RI 2012 and I am with great pleasure to announce that the worlds largest Ultimaker is finely up and running!! All morning me and my dad were working on assembling this thing to complete it, and we are happy to say that the project is done (not to say we wot add anything). I will be posting pictures as the day goes on, I hope you all have enjoyed following our progress on the worlds largest Utilimaker! But rest assured I will keep posting updates on the printer that eats other printers as time goes on! Hope you all enjoy the pictures!

Anyone wanna Hangout?

Hi there everyone! I just had a Jimmy Neutron moment (BRAINBLAST!) Would anyone be interested in having a Google Hangout while we are at the lab? If so respond to this post and we can set up a time for everyone to go on! We will be assembling the frame and everything made from the wood. Can't wait for the responses! Oh and lastly we hope you enjoy the new and improved site!

ROAD TRIP!

Hi everyone, just wanted to say that this Sunday me and my dad will be venturing to Make-It-Labs! This is hopefully gonna be the last time we have to go use their laser cutter. We are also going to be hopefully assembling the beast this weekend!! We can't wait to show everyone the finished product! Maker Faire is on the horizon and we can't wait to show off our work at this event of a lifetime!

Staining!

Hi everyone! It's been so crazy lately we haven't had much time to work on our gargantuan masterpiece! Well for one thing my dad had to get a car, and believe it our biggest issue with finding one was to get one to fit the Ultimaker! Let's just say Makerfaire this year is going to be quite interesting this year. Another thing that we been working is staining the case, we choose a oak stain for it to keep the beauty of the wood in tact. Oh and lastly please enjoy the music... as my friend Zach Hoeken says "Daft Punk gets the Gremlins out!"

A STANDALONE PRUSA!?!?

Hi there everyone here comes the latest and greatest thing from the Wattendorf Industries, we have finally made a standalone Prusa RepRap! This printer will print all by it's self using a custom interface that has all the latest and greatest features for this Prusa. This interface is so good that you can even adjust print speed with the push of a button WHILE PRINTING!! This printer is the only one out there right now that has all of these features, we are selling on Ebay here is the link to it http://www.ebay.com/itm/Reprap-Prusa-2-With-LCD-SD-card-Linear-bearings-T2-5-belts-and-pullies-/180855374509?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1bd202ad#ht_1730wt_932 This printer is also fine tuned to print on the fly, overall A GREAT BUY!

Prusa for sale!!

Hi there everyone so just a quick update we have been working really hard at the moment to get our Prusa up and running, and fine tuned. well its been a long over haul but we finally did it!!! To add to that we also have not just 1 but 2 fully functioning ones. We are trying to sell our first one to get money to help fund our massive Utilimaker! We hope that you will take a look at our ebay listing http://www.ebay.com/itm/complete-working-Reprap-Prusa-2-lm8uu-Bearings-T2-5-belts-machined-pulleys-/180850257336?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1b83edb8#ht_1530wt_932 and also look at the awesome video to see just how fine tuned this machine really is!

Hey Look a Laser!!

Hey everyone just figured we would show you the laser that we got to use up in NH while here it is and let me just say IT'S MASSIVE!!!!! http://www.rabbitlaserusa.com/IG_RL1290.html We can't wait to go back up to Make-It-Labs to go use it again and finish the job!!

Thing-O-Matic Buildathon

Today a few people got together at the AS220 and worked on building a Thing-O-Matic for the lab and we got it all assembled only to find that the X,Y,Z axises were not hooked up right. However the extruder worked fine which is always a great thing! Usually the first extruder test is a bad one however today it was an absolute success! Along with doing that today we also worked on cutting out more Utilimaker Parts! We also ended up cutting the Durlin Pieces today. Now we are getting to the point where we are going to buy some electronics! We also met up someone today who thinks that our ideas are not crazy, but he is actually attempting building a 3D printer about the same dementions as ours! However he is only taking a few of the designs from Utilimaker and the rest are all concepts that he has developed on his own! I know we sure can't wait to get them all put together so we can compare notes!