Fully functional 3d printable DIY car jack

Fouche 3D Printing team developed fully functional printable DIY car jack. They are well known for their large machines and big working 3d printed objects.

If you want to make it yourself, files can be found here:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1164155

Fouche homepage:

http://www.fouche3dprinting.com/

Video of it in action:

And Prototype 2 is really working nice....
Posted by Fouche 3D Printing on Monday, November 30, 2015

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Space Invaders Delta 3 tracked 3d printer from South Africa

Space Invaders is a team of students with Rueben Pretorius, Mathew Whyte and Jared Rheeders as members. They were South African representatives on 11th World Robot Olympics at Sochi and won the 4th place in Junior High age group.

They developed mobile caterpillar tracked robotic 3d printer powered with LEGO EV3 controller and Arduino. The Delta 3 is a concept of Mars based construction robot that can 3d print buildings, machines and even itself since it is a RepRap.

Here is video explaining their project:



Great work Space Invaders!

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BIG garage DIY 3d printer by Fouche from South Africa

Here is one big DIY machine from South Africa made by Hans Fouche in his garage. It is fully custom build and has 3 mm nozzle with ability to print directly from ABS granules.
In this case bigger is better. Hopefully full specifications and plans will be made available with in-action videos soon.
Many interesting 3d printing things come from South Africa!

https://www.facebook.com/fouche3dprinting

Wheel for a lawnmower printed in one hour directly from granulated ABS 

The same wheel is on up right damaged by usage. New improved versions are in the row bellow. 

Full frame for RepRap Morgan printed on Fouches printer in three parts that took seven and half hours

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Robobeast 3d printer from South Africa - sturdy machine designed for prosthetic hand printing in developing countries

South African Richard van As developed Robobeast 3d printer, specially designed to print prosthetic hands in rough environment of developing countries.

RoboBeast is designed to be ‘bulletproof’. It requires no set-up software tweaks, or mechanical adjustment of the frame before you print. It’s designed to be thrown in the back of a Land Rover, carted off into the bush, and to start working as soon as the power is on. You can move it during operation and the print head stays steady: it can even print if flipped upside down. 

Using software tweaks inherited from Quentin Harley’s RepRap Morgan, RoboBeast’s extruder head will also be able able to calibrate itself to compensate for any movement in the print bed, ensuring evenly layered prints regardless of whether or not the machine is level.To make it easy to operate, RoboBeast’s SD card is loaded with preconfigured RoboHand models in a variety of sizes. Recipients just need to tap the correct size on the touchscreen and wait

http://www.robobeast.co.za/

Here is the main site of RoboHand, 3d printable prosthetic hand:

http://www.robohand.net/

Read the post about Project Daniel which deploys 3d printers in Africa and teaches people how to use them to print prosthetic hands in war affected areas:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/01/project-daniel-3d-printing-prosthetics.html

Source:

http://www.htxt.co.za/2014/02/15/robobeast-3d-printer-tough-can-print-kick/

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Two students develop Windows Phone app that enables Nokia Lumia to print cover for itself

Two 15 year old South Africans create Windows mobile phone app that enables Nokia Lumia to 3d print cover for itself. Wow!



From video description:

Gerhard de Clercq and Pieter Sholtz, two South African teens, talk about their innovation that allows 3D printing directly from their phone and their mission to make 3D printing more accessible in Africa through mobile.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mLabSAStudio?feature=watch

Update (15.1.2014):

They have released it into Windows phone store:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/01/reprap-phone-host-3d-printing-app-is.html

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