Franken-bot update:
The whole frame in terms of mechanicals is now finished. I still have to mount the belts, motors, extruder, and endstops of which I will be working on this week.
But here is the (almost) final product!! The feet are going to be changed and the rod mounts for the y axis are going to be switched for some similar to that of the bed’s. I also anticipated a slightly smaller build width so I will be widening the bed by about 25mm to add some build area. The build size is about 210x240x200
Once this one is running it will start printing parts for the other 33!
Another note: I think I will be changing the name soon as I don’t want to steal it from Brook Drumm. It was just easier to call the project Franken-bot before.
Thanks for all who have been so positive with the project along the way. It’s amazing to see something from my head become a reality like this.
Call it squat-boy because it OBVIOUSLY didn’t skip Leg Day.
Hahahaha that is excellent @Mike_Miller !! The beefiness makes it sooooooo stiff!
You can call it whatever you like!! I only used frankenbot once or twice. We officially call it the Printrbot starter kit…
http://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot-starter-kit/
Brook
It looks like the bigger brother of the OneUp machine. 
without the weaknesses!
The 1up used my open source ideas on the original Printrbot and simple makers kit - and did a poor version of the Ubis hotend (not open sourced) to make theirs… They took some short cuts that make it inferior.
The frankenbot here ends up much closer to the old Printrbot plus but with some neat printed parts for maker-friendly builders. I’m stoked when anyone uses my ideas and executed well like he did!!
Long live open source design - and the active community of engaged people!!
Brook
Brook is right. I undoubtedly looked at the printrbot plus for reference. But I’m not one for stealing everything from a design and slapping my branding on it. In the end I knew the design was solid and I saw some things like backbone bracing and went to incorporate it.
In the end it’s innovation of ideas and designs that moves stuff along. These parts were from a plus more or less completely so why not try to make something similar.
As for the Oneup… It’s rather sad. Man I just hate the anubis hotend that they 100% ripped off of @Brook_Drumm and Carl. I figured that since the designs were open source reference solid designs??
In the end this is purely to get more kids into making and get more repraps out in the world. I’m not making a dime off of the design. I might eventually sell some printed parts kits but at the same time the files will be out there. It’s more of a service.
I completely endorse people making any original or open source designs. Period. That’s actually a goal. If you can improve my work-- and you can-- do it!
I can’t fault 1up for using ideas, but it’s not a good design. I’ve toyed w fixing their mistakes just to save them and, more importantly, customers from having a bad experience… But that doesn’t really make sense. I told them in person that if they reverse engineer my hotend, they should have just changed the name completely instead of referencing Carl name-- a bad decision in my opinion. I even told them they could buy our hotends at a discount if they asked. They stood there in silence.
To everyone who is inspired by open source designs: keep making and don’t policies for selling!!
Brook
I’m so glad I was able to convice my coworker on staying away from the 1up, and buy a simple metal instead! We need it to continue making parts for what we are hoping will be our separate printers… I’m still on design mode! He likes to make parts and print and test, I design in cad and then I draw the entire printer solid and try my design and fix as I design.
Keep it up! Sounds like fun!!
Brook
