Le BigRep: World’s Most Gigantic Rep Strap Build Underway
Photo: KurtCircuit / Flikr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtcircuit/4996842196/
A lot of people ask, “What’s the biggest thing I can make with a DIY 3D printer?”
Well, someone known as “Kurt Circuit” is hoping to push the limits of the print envelop for a rep strap beyond anything any of us has ever seen by leaps and bounds. If he succeeds, this will be the biggest open source 3D printer…ever. It’s designed to accommodate prints up to a cubic meter – 35.3 cubic feet- meaning you could build a chair or table or cradle, or…or…
According to Mr. Circuit’s blog:
The build-envelope will be big enough (1 cubic meter) for printing a chair, a table, prosthetics, parts for humanoid robots or spaceships and such.”
I assumed that this was one of the biggest – if not the biggest – 3D printer out there. But then Marty told me about the D-Shape, which can print one or two story buildings. It’s definitely not open source, though, so Le Big Rep will undoubtedly hold the record for biggest DIY printer when it’s complete.
Wow!
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6 Comments so far
cyrozap
The nozzle must be huge, otherwise all I can think of is “Estimated build time: 10 days” for any smallish object if it’s using a .5 mm nozzle. Also, if he’s using ABS, what will he do about warping?
mike mack
i can see this is where you would like to be able to have 2 or more print heads working at the same time, but that would be dam hard to work out
Nope
This will never work, reprap is only scalable to a point. There is going to be some serious warping here, plus leveling something this large will be next to impossible. I would only coin it “largest DIY printer” if it actually works.
Wilson
Never say never..
Kulitorum
Gert at our hackerspace, Labitat.dk has build a 1 cubic meter printer that is working. I don’t know the largest object he has printed, but I have seen small objects, and they work out nicely.
I belive he’s going to print wings for a windmill scale model with it.
//Kulitorum
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