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# Reduce cost-material: Inject with gas to expand volume(more surface area for less plastic)
# Reduce cost-material: Inject with gas to expand volume(more surface area for less plastic)
# Easier to assemble : attach helium balloons to top so cannot drop and easier to maneuver to fix/build
# Easier to assemble : attach helium balloons to top so cannot drop and easier to maneuver to fix/build
# Make it safer:
# Make it safer: Make all support structures out of
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# Use carbon fiber frame to decrease weight.
# Use carbon fiber frame to decrease weight.

Revision as of 15:41, 1 December 2015

Kev Man (talk) 07:33, 1 December 2015 (PST) Tmjohnst (talk) 07:37, 1 December 2015 (PST)

Ideas to improve 3d printer (Counterweight):

  1. Use Mesh design for end effector to reduce weight while maintaining structural integrity
  2. Enhance material availability:
  3. Reduce Parts: End effector has helicopter style top to suspend instead of metal bars
  4. Reduce cost-printer: Mesh design for all 3d printed parts and structures to use less material
  5. Reduce cost-material: Inject with gas to expand volume(more surface area for less plastic)
  6. Easier to assemble : attach helium balloons to top so cannot drop and easier to maneuver to fix/build
  7. Make it safer: Make all support structures out of
  8. Use carbon fiber frame to decrease weight.
  9. Use lighter motors to decrease weight.
  10. Add flat steel plate to base to decrease vibration somewhat.
  11. Modify end effector to only mount the hot end (alternative material to take care of heat)
  12. Add vibration reducers (similar to hunting bows) to lower rod vibration and thus the rod can be made of a lighter material.
  13. Use smaller motors to decrease weight.
  14. Use less robust board to decrease weight slightly.
  15. Use a combination stepper driver and computer to decrease overall weight (combine melzi and BBBlack)
  16. Use microphones to detect mechanical click to reduce wiring to leveling switches.
  17. Combine heated bed with the frame to reduce weight.
  18. Add heating to the whole frame to omit heated bed somehow (circuitry needs to be modified).
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