Redbrickman
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Normally the phrase is "Go big or go home" but in this case its "Go Small"
Go Small or go home :)
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Thanks for sharing, that would certainly cut my printing issues down to size..
But I reckon I’d need a complete rework for my Mark 6..
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It's so fun to see people tinker with stuff like that. In a lot of ways, stuff like this might seem pointless to a lot of people, but they don't realize that this kind of experimentation pushes the envelope and innovation.
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"A design exercise"? This is incredibly cool! The design itself is very solid, and the print it produced looks fantastic! A project like this truly deserves much more recognition.
May I ask a few curious questions? What guides your design choices for mounting all the components? I imagine you already know the parts you need, nozzles, encoders, microcontroller, etc. and roughly where they should go. But how do you go about designing the overall framework? You seem to incorporate very organized and numerous pieces. Does it mainly come from planning how everything will fit together?
This is truly superb!!
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Who would have taught that you could take your laptop on the bus and do your work from there, when computers were as big as houses starting out..
As with all technology it is getting smaller and no different with 3D printers, but seriously you can’t do much with this latest gadget, but give it time because they said the same thing about computers, and when you think what they used in mission control to get a man on the moon..
The Lion the Witch and the Smart Phone..
