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It would be a fun project to figure out how to optimize the support material necessary for this printer to raise itself up and move itself around a print that i
by Teever 2y ago
It would be a fun project to figure out how to optimize the support material necessary for this printer to raise itself up and move itself around a print that is far larger than itself.
Sort of like scaffolding for commercial construction.
- shermantanktop 2y agoyou mean for the printer to print its own scaffolding? Any scenario where the printer itself moves but continues to print an in-progress object requires the equivalent of auto-bed-leveling. But rather than checking the location of a fixed bed with known parameters, it would probably be checking the unfinished face of the printed object. Sounds challenging...
- Teever 2y agoYes, exactly, print it's own scaffolding. Sounds very challenging. Imagine this robot printing a human sized David statue and the necessary scaffolding to raise itself to every position necessary to do so. The next level would be to design the scaffolding in such a way that it's easy for the robot to disassemble and either directly reprocess into filament or to store for later reprocessing. The next level would be coordinating a swarm of these robots.