Welcome!

Welcome to the State College RepRap User's Group Wiki!

Our meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month at 7pm at The Make Space, downtown in the alley behind Green Bowl and the Fraser Street garage.

Thank you for visiting our page. We are a group of RepRap users based out of Penn State & the State College area. We participate in designing new parts and improvements for RepRap and have created a new merging of the Mendel and Prusa RepRap designs which we call the Open Hybrid Mendel, or OHM for short. We also are developing the RepRap Mullis as a low-cost laboratory robot capable of preforming DNA amplification via a polymerase chain reaction.

Our project is combined with class offerings at Penn State, so if you are interested and attend PSU be sure to contact us for information!

Click here for a tutorial on how conduct a print with a RepRap Mendel!

Submit your creations to Printrverse, a student-run printing service.

What's New?

For what used to be new, check PSU RUG History.

05.01.14 College of Engineering Design Showcase at The Bryce Jordan Center, more info can be found here.

College of Engineering Design Showcase at The Bryce Jordan Center, more info can be found here. 12.12.13 College of Engineering Design Showcase at The Bryce Jordan Center, more info can be found here.

College of Engineering Design Showcase at The Bryce Jordan Center, more info can be found here. 04.25.13 Printer showcase in the Engineering Design Expo at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Printer showcase in the Engineering Design Expo at the Bryce Jordan Center. 12.13.12 Printer showcase in the Engineering Design Expo at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Printer showcase in the Engineering Design Expo at the Bryce Jordan Center. 11.28.12 Samantha Yuhas had her article about EDSGN 497D published in Onward State.

11.12.12 : Participation in the PSU Hackathon.

: Participation in the PSU Hackathon. 9.17.12: Prior newslines archived.

WorkShop

This is an updated picture of the working area of PSU RUG. The location is still 312 Hammond, but over Winter break 2013-2014, the room was reorganized to segregate the 3D printing space from the regular class space. To the left of this picture is the space for the Penn State 3D printing club.

This is the working area of PSU RUG (before Spring 2014 semester), which the room 312 of Hammond Building of Penn State. Most of the printers are placed in this area.

This is the status board of some of the printers. Check this first before using any printers.





Students in 3D-printing class are smart and they make their efforts to all kinds of projects. The class is a place where students communicate with each other, learn from each other and have so much fun.

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EXTRUDER-RELATED Name Description Dual Extruder Development of a dual extrusion system for existing machines. Universal Paste Extruder Details on a universal paste extruder. Stepper Paste Extruder Development of paste extruder driven by a stepper motor. Paste extruder An OHM compatible pressurize air based paste extruder.





DESIGN AND PRINTING OF SPECIFIC OBJECTS Name Description Printed Quadcopter Printed Quadcopter project. Razor Blade Designs These are designs for razorblade holders designed by our 497D class. Pen Plotter A design for a universal pen holder. STL files posted.





HOW TO CREATE AND USE REP RAPS USED IN EDSGN CLASS Name Description Base Plate Base Plate project. Printing Instructions The users' guide for Penn State's 3D printers. Solidworks OHM Fully assembled OHM in SolidWorks.





TYPES OF PRINTERS Name Description Mullis Open Source PCR machine. TechZone Projects Projects from TechZone we have completed or plan on undertaking.





NEW IDEAS Name Description Stepper-motor camera A system to take picture of an object being printed. Waste Reclamation System Discussion on recycling print material.





CODING Name Description Vertex Parametrization Development of OpenSCAD code for variable-angle vertices. CAD files Posting Page for CAD files.





OTHER PROJECTS Name Description 3D Scanning Replicating objects using a 3D scanner. Hot Tip Hot Tip project. SolarPanel Solar Panel Project.













