[sclug] RepRap provenance?

[Neil Haughton]

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From: Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
Date: 3 September 2011 13:28
Subject: Re: sclug Digest, Vol 96, Issue 1
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk

I remember once seeing a demo of something similar by a company called
Leonardo Systems, also based in Reading Uni Science Park. It was based on a
3D CAD modelling system called 'Silverscreen', which exposed an API that
allowed you to use it as a modelling engine for your own app, which is
exactly what they had done. It was pretty powerful as a system. In those
days they used it to drive a hacked Roland A1 pen printer to trace and cut
contour layers from a plastic or card sheet, which you then hand-assembled
to produce your physical 3D model.

Is this derived from that project, I wonder? The location seems quite a
coincidence.

Neil.


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> From: Philip Hands <phil at hands.com>
> To: Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li>, sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:23:34 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] RepRap 3D Printers, Thames Valley User Group
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:12:25 +0100, Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> wrote:
> > This might interest some here.
> ...
> >    There is a group of people (from e-mpirical -- a company based in
> > Reading University's business centre) who are attempting to get a
> > Thames Valley RepRap user group started. They are holding an initial
> > planning meeting for a RepRap building party on Saturday 17th
> > September at Copa in Reading town centre. If you're interested, please
> > come along. More details and a sign-up form are available at:
> >
> > http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2043790031
>
> Having just signed up to this, I note that the page currently states in
> the "Where & When" panel that it'll be held on:
>
>  Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 8:00 PM (GMT)
>
> which presumably means that they changed their mind about the Saturday
> timing on the basis that too many people couldn't make it.
>
> BTW I built a RepRap at this event:
>
>  http://www.emakershop.com/MasterClass
>
> and have it mostly working (after upgrading firmware, switching to the
> new fork of skeinforge [https://github.com/ahmetcemturan/SFACT], and
> various other sodding about to get the stepper drivers to not overheat
> quite as much as they were).
>
> It's a great way of disposing of any surplus spare time you might have
> ;-)
>
> Cheers, Phil.
> --
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