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== Ideas to improve 3d printer (Counterweight): == | == Ideas to improve 3d printer (Counterweight): == | ||
# Use Mesh design for end effector to reduce weight while maintaining structural integrity | # '''Use Mesh design for end effector to reduce weight while maintaining structural integrity''' | ||
# Enhance material availability: Make structures out of particle board to reduce weight and use any available wood | # '''Enhance material availability: Make structures out of particle board to reduce weight and use any available wood''' | ||
# Reduce Parts: End effector has helicopter style top to suspend instead of metal bars | # Reduce Parts: End effector has helicopter style top to suspend instead of metal bars | ||
# Reduce cost-printer: Mesh design for all 3d printed parts and structures to use less material | # Reduce cost-printer: Mesh design for all 3d printed parts and structures to use less material | ||
# 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 | ||
# Use carbon fiber frame to decrease weight. | # '''Use carbon fiber frame to decrease weight.''' | ||
# Use lighter motors to decrease weight. | # Use lighter motors to decrease weight. | ||
# Add flat steel plate to base to decrease vibration somewhat. | # Add flat steel plate to base to decrease vibration somewhat. | ||
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# Use less robust board to decrease weight slightly. | # Use less robust board to decrease weight slightly. | ||
# Use a combination stepper driver and computer to decrease overall weight (combine melzi and BBBlack) | # Use a combination stepper driver and computer to decrease overall weight (combine melzi and BBBlack) | ||
# Use microphones to detect mechanical click to reduce wiring to leveling switches. | # '''Use microphones to detect mechanical click to reduce wiring to leveling switches.''' | ||
# Combine heated bed with the frame to reduce weight. | # Combine heated bed with the frame to reduce weight. | ||
# Add heating to the whole frame to omit heated bed somehow (circuitry needs to be modified). | # Add heating to the whole frame to omit heated bed somehow (circuitry needs to be modified). | ||
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# Use carbon fiber rods instead of aluminum to decrease weight. | # Use carbon fiber rods instead of aluminum to decrease weight. | ||
# Combine extruder and hot end into a plastic pushing monster to decrease metal and mechanical parts - momentum is increased and accuracy falls. | # Combine extruder and hot end into a plastic pushing monster to decrease metal and mechanical parts - momentum is increased and accuracy falls. | ||
# Use more snap-together parts to decrease bolts and nuts - less metal, less weight (slightly). | # '''Use more snap-together parts to decrease bolts and nuts - less metal, less weight (slightly).''' | ||
# Print with a smaller extruder motor to decrease weight. | # Print with a smaller extruder motor to decrease weight. | ||
# Use shorter linear bearings to slightly decrease weight. | # Use shorter linear bearings to slightly decrease weight. | ||
Revision as of 15:27, 3 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):
- Use Mesh design for end effector to reduce weight while maintaining structural integrity
- Enhance material availability: Make structures out of particle board to reduce weight and use any available wood
- Reduce Parts: End effector has helicopter style top to suspend instead of metal bars
- Reduce cost-printer: Mesh design for all 3d printed parts and structures to use less material
- 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
- Use carbon fiber frame to decrease weight.
- Use lighter motors to decrease weight.
- Add flat steel plate to base to decrease vibration somewhat.
- Modify end effector to only mount the hot end (alternative material to take care of heat)
- Add vibration reducers (similar to hunting bows) to lower rod vibration and thus the rod can be made of a lighter material.
- Use smaller motors to decrease weight.
- Use less robust board to decrease weight slightly.
- Use a combination stepper driver and computer to decrease overall weight (combine melzi and BBBlack)
- Use microphones to detect mechanical click to reduce wiring to leveling switches.
- Combine heated bed with the frame to reduce weight.
- Add heating to the whole frame to omit heated bed somehow (circuitry needs to be modified).
- Combine frame with vertical beams to reduce weight - or omit vertical columns entirely like on some cartesian printers.
- Extrude with a through-the-center stepper to decrease parts used in extrusion.
- Omit top doughnut entirely - vibration introduced but weight decreased.
- Use carbon fiber rods instead of aluminum to decrease weight.
- Combine extruder and hot end into a plastic pushing monster to decrease metal and mechanical parts - momentum is increased and accuracy falls.
- Use more snap-together parts to decrease bolts and nuts - less metal, less weight (slightly).
- Print with a smaller extruder motor to decrease weight.
- Use shorter linear bearings to slightly decrease weight.