I'm back... with the second post about the Reprap robot. I did warn you that this blog would be full of geeky things didn't I? They actually renamed the Reprap robot to Repstrap. You can check out part 2 here.
It truly is an amazing idea. The mechanics and electronics that go behind these robots have always baffled me. Even now when you watch the video it looks really complicated. At work I take care of and administer something very similar to this robot called a tape silo (IBM 3584). It operates on the same principle as the Repstrap robot does. There is a robot arm that moves along an X and Y axis to move tapes around. The difference is the Repstrap robot is a 3 axis robot. When you look at the tape silo the mechanics behind it are actually quite simple. A rail for the X axis and a screw for the Y axis.
The more research I do on these type of robots the more I realize what a simple concept they really are. Whats really cool is you can use the same concept as the Repstrap robot to make a 3 axis milling machine or CNC Router. I might in fact build one of these things one day. I just need to somehow find some more time. Right now I have too many other projects on the go. Don't worry, I'll talk about them in my blog sometime in the future.
That's enough for now. I'm out.
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