Fabbster 3D printer

Draft

The Fabbster is a low cost 3D printer kit that can be assembled in about 4 hours.

Soon - Daniel K. Schneider 14:11, 24 April 2012 (CEST)

The fabbster kit

Getting it The kit is sold through retailers and costs about 1500 € (incl. VAT., e.g. here). I got ours for 500 € through their (March 2012) pilot program.

Software

• A basic slicer program (STL to machine code configurator/translator) from Netfabb is included in the price.
• The printer comes with an electronic box that can print either through a connected PC or via an USB stick.
• Driver software for Windows XP/VISTA/7 can be downloaded from the wiki.

Materials

• Custom made ABS sticks or 3mm ABS rolls
• PLA sticks or rolls

The parts

Unlike the RapMan, the fabbster is based on very few different kinds of parts:

• Most of the structure uses so-called "cassettes", i.e. good for most everything 8.5x7.6cm plastic parts
• Most screws and bolts have the same size.

Assembly

Assembly is described in a bilingual German/English assembly handbook (Version 1.10 is a color PDF file in A4 portrait format and includes 57 pages and about 42 for the assembly process itself.

Step 1

• Open the box. Ideally you should have a fairly big table at your disposal during assembly.
• Make inventory of the parts (I skipped that). The manual includes a part list

Tools needed

• Most tools needed come with the kit: a hammer, 2 allen keys and cutting pliers (clippers)
• Additional tools needed: A ruler, plastic tape
• It's probably a good idea to use an electric screwdriver, but use minimal force

Links

Official

• Fabbster Home
• Fabbster forums]
• Fabbster wiki (Includes all the documentation). Sometimes, a wiki page just links to a file, e.g.
  • assembly handbook
  • drivers and software