I am going to share my journey of thinking, designing and building a big 3D printer.
Who am I:
I am an electronics guy, have been designing hardware and firmware for many many years. But also interested in mechanical design. My whole house and furnitures are modeled in Solidworks.
Related experience for this type of machine:
Designed and built a few solid desktop CNCs.
Experience on 3D printer:
Owned a Prusa i3 for about 6 weeks.
Have read a few machine build logs. Was fun to read, and thanks for sharing.
Starting point:
Very very new into 3D printers.
Learning while designing.
Learning things about structure.
Learning things about printing.
Learning things about firmware.
Plan:
From the previous section, you can see my main task right now is learning, doing my homework.
Show the community what I am thinking.
Will get into changing the firmware to do some customization for my printer. (Good news is I do this type of things for living).
Have my buddy's CNC shop do all the aluminum parts. I will do the final assembly.
Printer is designed to print some full size toys, tools, etc ...
Purpose of this build is for building the machine. Not so much of planning to print specific items.
Budget:
Don't know yet. If goes more than $5000, I may need to think about the what is the next step seriously, otherwise just experimenting.
Timeline:
Hopefully, 12 months to print the first 10x10x10 cube, in millimeters. LoL
Who am I:
I am an electronics guy, have been designing hardware and firmware for many many years. But also interested in mechanical design. My whole house and furnitures are modeled in Solidworks.
Related experience for this type of machine:
Designed and built a few solid desktop CNCs.
Experience on 3D printer:
Owned a Prusa i3 for about 6 weeks.
Have read a few machine build logs. Was fun to read, and thanks for sharing.
Starting point:
Very very new into 3D printers.
Learning while designing.
Learning things about structure.
Learning things about printing.
Learning things about firmware.
Plan:
From the previous section, you can see my main task right now is learning, doing my homework.
Show the community what I am thinking.
Will get into changing the firmware to do some customization for my printer. (Good news is I do this type of things for living).
Have my buddy's CNC shop do all the aluminum parts. I will do the final assembly.
Printer is designed to print some full size toys, tools, etc ...
Purpose of this build is for building the machine. Not so much of planning to print specific items.
Budget:
Don't know yet. If goes more than $5000, I may need to think about the what is the next step seriously, otherwise just experimenting.
Timeline:
Hopefully, 12 months to print the first 10x10x10 cube, in millimeters. LoL