Ok. That sure didn't work.by Adouglas89 - General
Maybe. But as Thomas edison said, genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. It's about doing the work to make the machine real, and having the workplace, equipment, colleagues etc. to do that.by Adouglas89 - General
Yeah, it doesn't much resemble existing approaches. There are some people who have tried similar approaches, but it stayed in the science world, never being brought out. Shape deposition manufacturing is one similar idea.by Adouglas89 - General
I would like to try to get into a useful discussion about an idea I have been trying in vain to advance for a very long time. I have not been able to do much physical work on it, and software is not something I am good at, so all I can do is discuss and think really. Yet it has been a rare case where I have been able to find anyone who even understands the value of the idea. The value is prettby Adouglas89 - General
Ok, so I have made some progress, which you can read about at this document and the sensorica site: I cannot edit the sensorica document right now. I have not been able to get on with doing any experimentation, though. I am looking for collaborators, if you are interested and able to collaborate, please get in touch anthony.a.dou&by Adouglas89 - Shape Deposition Manufacturing Working Group
No prototype yet, but I have been making some progress. You can see updates etc. here Here is an explanatory document that I recently updated to explain the process: I think it is clear in this age of self driving vehicles (ups has been doing driverless deliveries for real since may), drones, smartphones, computers etc. that the on the ground manufactured reality is severely lagging. We stby Adouglas89 - Shape Deposition Manufacturing Working Group
I have a background in cnc machining, so I am familiar with its limitations, and I am seriously thinking about what we might see next, somewhere between here and, frankly, something like atomically precise manufacturing. I think Shape deposition modeling has potential, but there are some advantages in terms of material strength and other properties and accuracy that carving something out of a soby Adouglas89 - General
The last post I that forum was in 2013.by Adouglas89 - General
Hey, I am moving towards the development of an open source Mold Shape deposition manufacturing system. The bottom line is that it looks like a good, relatively easy way to reach a system that is dramatically better than any other three d printer that anyone else seems seems to be working on. In terms of the quality of the output it can produce. To produce objects of almost any shape you can draby Adouglas89 - Shape Deposition Manufacturing Working Group
alas, we hardly did the subject justice, did we. how will we ever advance if we can't even talk? As humankind, even. I mean seriously, in person works a bit but odds that everyone feels like talking about high level stuff at any given time are slim. We need to be able to talk over windows of time and space that are larger..... argby Adouglas89 - General
QuoteDjDemonD Well as a statement of desirability then yes I agree. I would like to be able to buy for modest cost a machine that can produce parts in a wide range of useful materials including metals, that are smooth, made to high precision and fast to produce. Now the important bit is how do we make one? Have you any ideas how we might move things forward? Any ideas that are not currently paby Adouglas89 - General
Yes, I very much agree with the great promise, power, also the centrality of human ingenuity of that sort. Indeed, looking at the basic things like safety, being warm, having nutritious food, which many of us even in developed countries are missing, improved capacities of printers seems kind of low on the list of ways forwards... and indeed, the flexibility that arises with the range of manufacby Adouglas89 - General
Ok, I have started to come to the opinion that one of the major things we could do in society to make some progress is to think collaborative on the core things. I don't know how core this is more generally, but I have been thinking a lot recently about the implications of a 3d printer ,alas, probably work a whole set of post processing and maybe mould making to transfer the shapes to better maby Adouglas89 - General
Hey, I was interested in and food done research for the Metallica project ages ago, I think under s different username. Bummer to see there is no prototype yet. As time has past, though, I have learned a lot, as an entrepreneur and open source developer, including spending four months developing and building opens source cbc machines, and more than a year working with milling machines. I haveby Adouglas89 - MetalicaRap
hello? Such are the barriers to getting stuff like this done, explaining partly why it had not been done for do long, despite the reason to, and resources available.by Adouglas89 - Developers
Ok, I want to launch a new 3d printer project. I am pretty serious about it, and have put lot of time and money into it already. I am trying to find a worksite and tools to pursue the development of the printer. Basically the concept I currently see as the most promising is one that produces casts make of the same material commonly used for shell casting of steel, in investment casting. Thenby Adouglas89 - Developers
Sigh. Yeah but I really want to go and produce a printer capable of good quality output. That will enable serious things for real people in a very substantial way .... well I will leave this thread here I guess, anyone who is willing to join me email anthony.a.douglas with the relevant domain name being gmail .by Adouglas89 - General
There is an entry on the wiki and previous interest expressed on producing a 3d metal printer. I myself have been interested for way too long, years in fact. I should say now that coming from mechanical engineering land and milling that I see good material properties -low internal stresses, full or nearly full strength- and dimensional accuracy - measured in terms of deviation from the initialby Adouglas89 - General
I have been interested in metals printers for many years now and have written a lot on the reprap wiki. I am looking for people especially in totonto to collaborate with on making some progress, probably with with either the hacklab or there a place called 160 bartley we could work from, unless we can find a garage.by Adouglas89 - General