I am aiming to have 3 part systems with all my batteries, and ultracapacitors to allow them to be sprayed, painted, or printed in layers and create a completely modular battery system.
This will be very helpful to a large number of DIY'ers.
The system will consist of a x-axis that houses 3 peristaltic pumps. These will pump liquid out of pipettes and drop cast an anode, cathode, and seperators/electrolyte onto a heated build plate where they can be built up in series or parallel to print a battery.
The software is all pretty much completed and I believe I will be able to use slic3r and RepRapPro host to do "multicolored" prints with each of my materials.
The difficulty lies in engineering the x-axis, affording materials for this build and engineering a much larger printer. For the heated bed will be usable in different 3d printing applications it is its own project.
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Can you talk more about the chemistry of the batteries you wish to print? What would be example steps using this system that would lead to a working battery?