Arc Printer

For those that have followed my Arc Printer project I am sorry that I have delayed working on this for so long but no longer I will be developing at as rapid a pace as I can afford and plan for final working design by summer of this year. If anyone is willing to help please contact me I want you all to be able to use an Arc Printer of your own in the near Future.

-one two out-

I got an idea to use many needles for a multi-point extruder for plastic 3D printing.  Still I don't have much time to work on any project at the moment with work and some personal issue and also little extra money for projects.  But enough complaining!!  

Thank you to all my new project followers it will be done and awesome once I can work things out and then you can build one yourself.  I am considering setting up a single row print-head to demonstrate the process of arc printing.  It will be more mechanicly complicated than the original arc printer design but it saves me time making 100 rows of 100 wires at least for now.

I am still sontinueing this project but since I am not in the running for the prize I need to spend my time with other stuff.  Gotta pay the bills ya know.

I thank all the people that are following my project.  It will still be complete but I do not think it will be this year as I don't have much financial stability or an abundance of free time.  

I will be making the print base out of 256 x 256 wire arrays that are individual modules that take a digital input of x and y.  These modules can be combined for a larger printing area and should not slow down the printing process as each module will be able to print simultaneously and would require only pluging into the control box up to a limit based on how many digital ports are available on the control hardware.  To put this in perspective the picture on the project with the row of wires is about 256 long and I will make 256 more of those.  This will be a one module demonstration unit which will only print small objects but should still do so ten times faster than other 3D printers.

My schedule will be clearing up next week so I will be dedicating more time to the Arc Printer.  I do appreciate everyone's support and I hope to impress you with fast 3D printing.

Posted First draft of system Design Document more details to come soon.  Also posted image of one layer of the print bed for the small test unit.

I posted my basic blueprint so people can get a better idea of how it will work.  More pictures coming soon.

I am currently assembling a low res test unit.  This will be a bare bones unit just to demonstrate the viability of Arc Printing

This test unit will be manually operated to show how simple Arc Printing technique is and also will show how inexpensive it can be to build one.

Hopefully more updates very soon.