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Re: Some brainstorming needed.
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 03:13:46 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
> I've been thinking about trying to build a '3D printer'. These things
> exist in a number of commercial products - but they cost an absolute fortune
> and I've been thinking about making one using Lego robotics components.
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> The idea is to take a 3D CAD model inside your PC and to have some kind
> of robotic contraption build it for you in the real world.
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> Some examples of these machines work like this:
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> (snip)
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> Anyhow - I've been wondering whether it would be possible to build some kind
> of contraption that would do this using Lego (and - presumably - a significant
> amount of non-Lego parts)...but all of those approaches seem to need powerful
> lasers or weird chemicals or some-such.
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> So - does anyone have any idea what might be possible for an enthusiastic
> amateur?
Wow, Steve, been a while since I've seen anything with your name on it! :)
And if you're referring to yourself there in that last sentence, I think you can
easily afford to call yourself something a lot better than an 'amateur.' ;)
As for the printer...I like that plaster idea. It's fairly simple, it requires
nothing super-unusual like high-Class lasers, and perhaps the water part could
even be done with pneumatics or some such thing. Fine motor control with very
small backlash is possible, so I don't see why not.
It would require writing some custom software, but you could probably do that,
right?
The problem is...all that plaster could get expensive.
Really neat idea though!
-Mike
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| Marcel @ Sweden you need a glue pistol and so modified that the material it puts out can be turned of and on under extream heat. There is a coffie machine look alike that uses abs plastic.. At the moment i do not remember the machines name.. But its (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've been thinking about trying to build a '3D printer'. These things exist in a number of commercial products - but they cost an absolute fortune and I've been thinking about making one using Lego robotics components. The idea is to take a 3D CAD (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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