Enemy Delta Robot

Enemy Delta Robot

This delta robot based on work from http://www.enemygadgets.com/delta/index.html

The aim is a cheap delta robot anyone can make with the reprap, laser or routing cutters.

Second aim - make light weight micro extruder specifically for small delta robots.

Third aim - build robot to enter the Gada Prize by becoming inherently cheap to build.

Fourth aim - build a PIC based controller with USB and G-code interpreter that is compatible to reprap software

I want a reprap to play with, so I will start to build some variants of existing reprap machines because I can then get some of the difficult to make parts from others who mastered making it, while remaining parts I can design and make new in the form of yet more variants of the repraps, and in that process try to get handle on practical reprap techniques so that that experience feeds into getting a delta reprap going as well.

The biggest headache I can see in this project is getting a micro extruder going that doesn't weigh down the delta robot. Some commercial delta robots can operate at 200 operations per second. The only things that weigh them down are eliminated by using carbon fibre rods.

Fitting a bulky extruder and mechanisms to feed it and heavy current carrying wires for the heater ain't gonna get a fast delta robot. A micro extruder for this delta robot has to go back to the drawing board to address all the issues that it generates.