Welcome to the Caribou github project page!
Caribou 320 and Caribou 220 are available as a full build or as a kit. You can also mod your Original Prusa printers to Caribou 320 and Caribou 220 with upgrade kits. Numbers are indicating the Z-Axis height. They are all featuring 3030 Aluminium Extrusions and improved plastic parts for rigidity, accuracy and speed. Both mods are almost identical except the Z-Axis motors and rods. You need longer lead screws for 320 build and you can buy identical quality stepper motors from caribou3d.com which have been used on the Original Prusa MK series.
Special thanks to all our members for the contribution as the project is growing within an exceptionally friendly and courteous platform. 🙏
- Store: https://caribou3d.com
Caribou3d.com is the webshop for high-quality genuine parts you may need for your builds including heated beds, motors, screws, nuts, controller boards and even extruder springs.
Caribou3d.com only sells tested, high-quality genuine items from Bondtech, E3d, Microswiss, Capricorn, Slice Engineering, LDO, Misumi, and Meanwell.
There are many people who have contributed on one form or another to the project. We like to thank everybody who inspired or supported us. Many ideas were discussed in the facebook groups:
Official Caribou Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/636587910566652 German Caribo Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315750966179297
Very special thanks to 3d-Gussner and Bernd Brinkert for their huge support and effort in providing and testing Caribou firmware.
Thank you Rebecca and Jason from LDO Motors and Martin from Bondtech for the quality manufacturing and relationship.
Thanks to our other supplier: E3d, Microswiss, Slice Engineering, Misumi for delivering high quality products to us.
We give references that have influneced the design. Since the majority of plastic parts (even if much improved and somehow "new and different") have their roots in the initial design by Prusa Research we like to mention this a first and most influential reference.
- Prusa : http://www.prusa3d.com
Frame
- Prusa i3 MK2-X by davtr https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1692666
- Haribo Project https://github.com/PrusaMK2Users/3030_Haribo_Edition
y-rodholder:
- they have been inspired by the design of Piotr Karkovski https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2830591
y-bearing holder
- the clamp mechanism is similar to one used on the x-axis. We like to mention that the first clamp design with insert for the carriage for the bearings holders was done by Vecko Kojchevski https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2930007
x-MotorHolder and X-Idler
- inspired by initial clamp design of Arnaud Rousseau https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2964026 hole design seen on some screen shoot of a bear part 😉Bear x-axis can be found here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3716110
x-carriage
- earlier carriage design and references therein https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2770327
z-Top Holder
- hole design seen on some screen shoot of a bear part 😉Bear x-axis can be found here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3716110
z-Motor Holder:
- the new motor holder was designed independently but we would like to point out that a similar design exists by Vecko Kojchevski https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2974255
Meanwell PSU-holder
- Tobias Reischl https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3373172
Extruder of Rel. 2 that still can be used instead of the Bondtech extruder
- MK3 Extruder and X Carriage: Vecko Kojchevski https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2843264
STL for PrusaSlicer as background
- thanks to Patrick Vosshans
Mosquito PFTE cutting tools
- based on the version by Juan Puchol https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4156136
Earlier Releases were partly designed by or influenced by:
- Stefan Weber: y-belt tensioner: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2666661
- Jon Madden: Prusa MK2/S X-Carriage Adjustable Tensioner by: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2770019
- Vecko Kojchevski: https://www.thingiverse.com/vekoj/designs
- Murathan Araz https://www.thingiverse.com/murathanaraz/designs
- Ocie Ward