SebastienBailard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this thing supposed to be self replicating, > easily sourced, or completely open to vitamins? > The recycling part of the toolchain? Anything > goes. > > Tim from Michigan-RUG mentions that some buddies > have achieved good results powdering plastic > chunks using a rock tumbler. Seenby Satori - Kartik M. Gada Humanitarian Innovation Prize
I remember doing an electronics project a while ago that could work for this. It was based on resistance - using a pencil, we made a thick graphite line on a piece of paper. One probe wire was touched to one end of the line, and as the second probe was slid along it the resistance would change - and the circuit would emit a tone that would slide up or down based upon the resistance. I have toby Satori - Mechanics
Thanks so much for all the specific information and feedback. This is just the kind of information I needed. I'm glad to know that so many things are in the works - as the open source software people start getting into the open source hardware development community, the developmental curve should spike in ways that traditional technology corps can only have wet dreams about - I'm specifically lby Satori - Mechanics
I'm new here, but have a few ideas: - The ability for the next version of RepRap to have, say, three slots off to the side with different write heads to be slotted into. The RepRap could send its current write heads off to an empty slot, and pick up a new one, through the process. This would not only allow the RepRap to set a nozzle off to cool while still extruding with another, it would alsoby Satori - Mechanics
What you may want to do is us a new, cheap digital solution - sensors. These things are tiny, cheap, and can detect minute variations in the structure of a surface. With one of these along some guideline material strips on the x and y axes, they could do on a minute digital level what the human eye does with the ruler guidelines along the sides of the glass in photocopiers. And because itby Satori - Mechanics