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 maintain (none, unbreakable, self healing)
make fully assembled products (anything - computer, car, smartphone, dinner)
reduce waste (zero)
ubiquitous printing (everywhere)
enable auto monitoring
enable quality control
enable real-time feedback
make it safer (infant approved)
make is smell good (designer imposters?)
- Change nozzle geometry for tighter corners/ better edges
- make drive gear geometry asymmetric to allow faster speeds with the same motor. Align geometry with part to be printed.
- additional infill on edges, leave middle hollow
- add flats to shaft for drive gear
- make printer asymmetric to allow better access to print bed
- Change firmware to allow tolerances for asymmetric construction, then vastly increase assembly tolerances
- add cutout to nozzle to allow other materials to be injected into print stream
- make drive gear geometry asymmetric to allow the extruder motor's force to be better used. Align geometry with part to be printed.
- adjust symmetry of drive pulses to motor
- bring nozzle to a point on one side, orient that side inward to allow better detail, shave off the additional plastic on the outside
- flip nozzle in previous point
- mount bed on cams, drive them until bed is a set distance from nozzle
- mount bed on cams, drive them until bed is level
- change firmware to not care about nozzle geometry, make nozzle from random trash