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Rumbling Ideas Around, planetary gears as extruder heads you could choose from?

Posted by swe3tdave 
Rumbling Ideas Around, planetary gears as extruder heads you could choose from?
January 16, 2014 01:05PM
I spent too much time with OpenSCAD last night so i woke up with the image of something i built in a dream.

It was a moving extruder heads under an effector. With the heads as metal or aluminium gears, you could move them around to choose the right head size for a given time. The gears could be for example, the planets of a planetary gear set for example. This way, you could have multiple head size along with multiple colors. I'm not sure how you heat the thing up, but i guess the outer gear would be the right choice since its the only one that doesn't move.

Anyway, i'm not sure if this idea has value or not but i just wanted it on a public forum in case it does.

David Giard
Re: Rumbling Ideas Around, planetary gears as extruder heads you could choose from?
January 16, 2014 01:24PM
Sounds somewhat similar to the concept discussed in this thread: New rotating multi extruder concept.
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