3D Printing for great justice. Now with a shoddy video!

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For those who are interested, here's a comparison between the Huxley (left) and Darwin (right) extruder head designs. The Darwin one's the spare from the one I built a few years back.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7122/7669755188_77c8a20524_z.jpg
Extruder head mounted.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8024/7669759094_3d8183575f_z.jpg
I may have mis-mounted the PCB on here, so I'm going to experiment with that a bit. Other than that, it's just a case of hooking everything up, but because I want my wiring to be tidy, I'm going to throw a few hours at heatshrinking, binding and securing the wires properly. Once that's done, I'm going to re-check the spacing, mounting and orientation of all the surfaces and rods that require it (i.e. pretty much all of them).

Wish me luck.
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[Aff]

Electronics usually go on the front or down the side as you'll probably want to route the filament through the top.
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Incidentally, since I keep banging on about the previous one I worked on, here's some proof: Forum announcement and video piece (which seems to be broken).

It was Toby who did the bulk of the design work, but I was there, slaving away over a hot lasercutter, finishing and assembling the bits that it proceeded to spit out. Aside from pulling a 28-hour-straight assembly stint (after which I slept for about 18 hours), I reeked of burning wood for days.
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[nowhere.elysium]

Been working on wiring, and gotten some progress made. I've only hooked up the stepper motors so far - I've still got to do the hot end (heater, thermistor, fan), the endstops and the heated bed, but all of these things can wait 'til tomorrow.

I've developed some pretty interesting muscle memory since starting the wiring today; I can now crimp one of those tiny molex connectors without using the proper tool in short order, which although something of a niche skill, is still useful to me.

These are the little sods that I'm on about:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8425/7672046634_36c29ba950_z.jpg
Anyway: half way there...

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7672029250_cb2b5e675d_z.jpg
Nearly done...

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8152/7672032328_c16ee4744f_z.jpg
...And all hooked in.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8011/7672041610_976d590173_z.jpg
Apologies for the blurriness.
I decided to sip tie a length of PLA filament to the X-Axis stepper wires, because since the X-Axis arm is going to be moving up and down, I didn't want it to get folded into the mechanism and causing anarchy. It now arches out of the way nicely.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8167/7672044554_5af9b1d51b_z.jpg
My desk and workspace may be a total mess, but I like to think that my wiring's fairly tidy

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7672035324_aee184e0df_z.jpg
More tomorrow. Must sleep now.
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[nowhere.elysium]

Apologies for the lack of updates so far, I'm waiting on a couple of parts at the moment - I've nearly run out of those crimps, and two of the plugs that they fit into are damaged, so I've got replacements on their way to me. With luck they should be here today - my experience of RS's delivery times has been good in the past, so I'm hoping it should be up to scratch in this case, too.
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[chris-red]

Could you explain this to us morons that have no idea what a hot end is?
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[Pol Anorl]

could you explain to this moron what the hell all of this is.. im utterly mindfucked.

looking pretty good, most complex thing ive seen since i stepped inside a time machine.
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[chris-red]

So it isn't a cutter? it actually builds stuff up! cool!
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[chris-red]

Make me something, I don't know or care what.

If have a pattern saved can you just set the machine up to build it with no intervention? Can you use different types of plastic to give different strengths/flex etc.
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[Aff]

The stepper is technically part of the cold end.

Hot end consists of; barrel, melt chamber, nozzle, heating element, thermistor and thermal barrier.

The whole thing is basically a 3 axis CNC milling machine, but instead of having a cutter on it you have a fancy extruder that works the same way as icing a cake. Squeeze out layers of plastic on top of each other layers to build up what you want.

Fancy name is FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling).

Probably the worst way to 3D print, but the most accessible to the average person.
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[tbourner]

I'm with the recent replies in that I've never seen one of these before. Looks cool though I can picture it 'working'.

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[P.]

Fairing kit plz

[Pol Anorl]

[nowhere.elysium]

Given that the print bed is 14*14*10cm, that'd be an awful lot of pieces. Of course, building a slot-together fairing could look pretty awesome, if it was designed properly. I'm thinking cubist, so it'd look like an explosion in a glass factory, but that could work, depending on the bike.
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[_Iain_]

Could you not just make some epic jigsaw puzzle shaped pieces that joined up to make a fairing? Preferably in pretty colours.
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[woodall57]

when i first saw this thread i thought you meant hiding weed in your dash lol
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[Kaneda]

How goes knocking up the enclosure in CAD? I'm guessing building the geometry in such a way that the printer understands it is the hard part?