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High-end 3D Printer ever!

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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi Ben could you build a 3D Printer that has:

Color Printing so it prints colors on natural ABS plastic so there will be only one extrudor.

Uses RAMPS 1.4 (RepRap Arduino Mega Pololu Shield).

Controled by a remote controler.

It´s all automatic so it opens up and prepaires everything and so on.

It´s thin.

Controled by Microsoft Surface and it´s own control unit.

Rechargeable batteries build in.

Cool design.

Best features.

 

Please Ben could you build this 3D printer as soon as you can?

 

Kristian Drucker

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    Former Member over 13 years ago

    So you want an extruder head that can print color onto the plastic as it is fed into/out of the extruder? That would be a very complicated printer head. Making it fairly large thus preventing the overall printer from being thin. that kind of print head would also further complicate the code needed to run the printer. The ink could also interfere with the layers bonding to the build platform and to each other. The system would have to know exactly how much plastic is being feed through so it would know when to switch colors. Otherwise you'll hit the end of one color layer and still have some of the previous color on the plastic when it starts the new color layer. That is if you find a good ink that will be able to bond with the plastic as its feed through the extruder. This would make things too complicated to run on RAMPS.

     

    Making it run on batteries further increases the overall size of the unit. You would need a rather large battery like a car battery and even then you might not make it through a single print before the battery dies. Then if you want to automate the opening and setup that will require more motors and actuators, requiring another control system and more power draw on the batteries. This all ads to the size of the unit. In the end your idea would not be a very portable unit so batteries would be kind of pointless.

     

    You have some ambitious design criteria here. But you need to run through those ideas and realize that many of them will contradict eachother. Then you need to decide which design aspect are more important to you.

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    Former Member over 13 years ago

    So you want an extruder head that can print color onto the plastic as it is fed into/out of the extruder? That would be a very complicated printer head. Making it fairly large thus preventing the overall printer from being thin. that kind of print head would also further complicate the code needed to run the printer. The ink could also interfere with the layers bonding to the build platform and to each other. The system would have to know exactly how much plastic is being feed through so it would know when to switch colors. Otherwise you'll hit the end of one color layer and still have some of the previous color on the plastic when it starts the new color layer. That is if you find a good ink that will be able to bond with the plastic as its feed through the extruder. This would make things too complicated to run on RAMPS.

     

    Making it run on batteries further increases the overall size of the unit. You would need a rather large battery like a car battery and even then you might not make it through a single print before the battery dies. Then if you want to automate the opening and setup that will require more motors and actuators, requiring another control system and more power draw on the batteries. This all ads to the size of the unit. In the end your idea would not be a very portable unit so batteries would be kind of pointless.

     

    You have some ambitious design criteria here. But you need to run through those ideas and realize that many of them will contradict eachother. Then you need to decide which design aspect are more important to you.

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    Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Hi Michael,

     

    So my thought is that i´ll put some generators to charge the battery.

    It´ll run with multiple arduino microcontroler like Adruino Due(Main unit), Uno, Mega...

    There´ll be one makergear extruder and there´ll be a station that has Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black and it´ll be mixing them so there´ll be another custom program to control it.

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