RepRap Magazine Issue 2

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Community news activities not plausible. In order to “dodge” this obstacle, NXT’s internal shell was modified so that it’s capable of having an AC/DC power transformer attached on it (by soldering each one of the dipole NXT’s poles with the poles of the transformer), making it competent to operate at a voltage of 9V and intensity of 0.8mA. Moreover, this machine can be classified as a “subtractive desktop manufacturing machine”. Yet, the concept behind is absolutely the same, although the Z axis is moving downwards. My main aim is to have a machine with the fewest possible non-LEGO elements and that’s why I didn’t attach an extruder in order to make it an additive manufacturing machine

The YZ Plane (without the drill attached)

Finally, I want to thank you all for devoting your time to read this short article and I wish you happy reprapping!

Perspective view of the structure

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