MegaMendel
Release status: Experimental
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| Description | Giant version of Mendel
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| License | GPL
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The idea for the MegaMendel came in the early 2010. The project was spurred by an idea of printing part for a small wind turbine.
It is a mighty machine with a build area of 766mm x 453mm x 497mm. The X and Y dimensions are the freedom on the axes the 497mm on the Z-axis is actually the height of the tallest object printed on it so far.
The machine's the dimensions are 1160mm x 880mm x 830mm and my guess is that it has a weight of some 30 to 35 kg's.
The whole project made me rethink parts of the construction. I had two reasons for that:
1 - I made the "plastic" parts in MDF - So there was a need for a design that would compensate for the weaknesses in MDF.
2 - I don't agree with some of the solutions in the standard Mendel, so I changed lots of details to what I consider simpler and better solutions.
This page is meant to document the build process, and most important design decisions for others to adopt or comment.
