[Hplusroadmap] Putting the RepRap Myth to rest

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

В сообщении от Thursday 05 June 2008 19:06:04 Bryan Bishop написал(а):
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/04/2312227&from=rss
>
> Read the comments. It's quite clear that the RepRap Team has lied. Their
> design strategy (hoping that somebody comes along to make it actually
> self-replicate) isn't the best. I think it's time to put the myth to
> rest.

A post on RepRap forum:
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Ian Adkins Wrote: 
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> Viktor I've seen Nopheads work in the flesh/ABS 
> and it is every bit at commercial standard 
> possibly slower but definitely at the standard and 
> i could be mistaken on the speed :) Actually on 
> reflection and closer examination it might even be 
> a bit better (tu) 
 
 
That's wonderful, but it has yet to be demonstrated that this level of 
accuracy can be achieved with the stock RepRap design... in fact atm it has 
almost been disproven, really. 
 
I agree with viktor... the project could benefit from a few more months of 
development before it is emphasized to the press. It will soon come to the 
point where a moderately skilled adult with some hand tools and a weekend or 
two can build and use a machine with an accuracy comparable to nophead's, but 
we're not there yet. Jumping the gun on this one may have serious adverse 
repercussions, as it will make it more likely for the project to be taken as 
a gimmick.
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Nophead is the person who used a good-precision cnc machine with a RepRap 
extruder to print rather nice-looking parts. So it seems that reprappers are 
finally starting to understand what's going on...

-- Evgeny