Azw (talk) 07:19, 1 December 2015 (PST) Djchopp (talk) 07:19, 1 December 2015 (PST)
enhance material availability (all)
reduce parts of the printer (1?)
reduce costs of printer (free)
reduce costs of materials (free)
make it easier to use (McDonald's screen)
make it easier to assemble (self)
make it easier to maintain (none, unbreakable, self healing)
make fully assembled products (anything - computer, car, smartphone, dinner)
use functional printing materials (e.g. electronics)
reduce waste (zero)
use less energy (zero or ambient)
quieter printing (soundless)
ubiquitous printing (everywhere)
print smaller (nanoscale)
print bigger (apartment complex, Great Wall of China, planet?)
enable auto calibration
enable auto leveling
enable auto monitoring
enable quality control
enable real-time feedback
make it safer (infant approved)
make is smell good (designer imposters?)
make it from current waste products (CO2, flyash, spent fuel rods?)
- adjust print settings for specified areas of object for tighter tolerances
- increase variance on some print parameters (temperature) to allow some areas to be printed faster than others.
- use lower quality materials in don't care areas of parts
- change control parameter to pressure instead of temperature for different extrusion materials in different parts of object
- include only high quality parts where precision is important, else use crap quality
- map print bed to account for non uniformity in print surface.
- add guards around some mechanical areas of printer to prevent entanglement, leave others exposed to allow open movement.
- change frame material from high quality wood to low quality trash as it isn't mechanically important
- multiple print heads that are automatically changeable for quality where its needed
- use multiple print heads of varying quality in parallel
- alert user when printing difficult sections so it can be closely monitored
- use feedback to alter print speed based on head resistance
- control environment quality around print head but leave print enclosure at ambient
- allow for localization of thermal control for print bed to conserve energy and allow for better release
- include high precision components for bed leveling, cut costs in other locations
- change infill for unimportant areas of print to cut material usage
- cool filament before it enters extruder
- bigger, sharper teeth on drive gear to allow more filament force
- self cleaning drive gear
- control environment filament is stored in when it is in use
- flash cool filament after it is extruded