Discrete Atomic Luffa Control
Benjamin HeckendornAn electronics hacking entertainment guruFormer host of Element 14’s “ The Ben Heck Show”.Chris KraftA tinkerer currently working as a software engineer in the financial services industryExtensive background in 3d printing and building anything that seems interestingPast two yearsBoth where last seen on Episode 75: Does the simulation match reality?Ben has moved on from hosting "The Ben Heck Show"Chris has been experimenting with SLA resin printersHangprinterA very simplified explanation is you take a delta printer but instead of having the three motors that are attached to the side frame you instead locate those motors wherever and have wires/cables/etc that run up to points that you mountSome videos that show how it worksHangprinter PresentationThomas Sanladerer interviews The HangprinterBuilding the Hangprinter: The Basics!The first new/interesting thing Chris has seen in awhileProject is open source so people are free to contribute and find ways to improve the designOne thing I feel is potentially a missed opportunity is the focus is on making it cheapODriveDesigned to give motor control to hobby grade brushless DC motors instead of stepper motorsHackaday.io projectNew Makerbot printer named "Method"Non-heated bed is a “feature”?Latest design seems to prefer technologies that Stratesys can or already has patentedConsider the humble LuffaFor a long time manufacturing has mostly used subtractive techniquesUntil recently most manufacturing was about taking raw materials and cutting, bending, etc into the desired patternLook at that infillAdditive manufacturing is really different when you think about the possibilitiesWhat if we could use CRISPR to "reprogram" plants to produce other things? Like growing a replacement organs, body parts or something else completely?
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Tags: BenHeck, Benjamin Heckendorn, Chris Kraft, electronics podcast, Hangprinter, Luffa, MacroFab, macrofabe ngineering podcast, Makerbot Method, ODrive, SLA Resin Pritners