I was looking at Fab@Home’s extruder design, and it inspired me to build this cookie dough extruder:
This uses the same motor as the standard reprap extruder and can be controlled by the Reprap Extruder Controller board. It works empty, but I haven’t tried it with dough yet.
I’ve spent the last couple weeks putting together a Repstrap 3d printer, based on the McWire cartesian robot. Today I ran my first test of the extruder, with polymorph plastic. At first, the plastic jammed in the drive assembly, just above the PTFE barrel. I think I either something is a [...]
What you need, when you need it
September 6, 2010