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Our immediate goal is to build a functional clay extruder. This unit will then be used to retrofit the CreatorBot Pro as a ceramic printer, and ultimately integrated with a variety of more experimental large-scale CNC devices. There are a number of published open-source designs for ceramic extruders (incomplete list below), both Direct Drive clay printers and liquid deposition modeling (LDM) slip printers.  
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Our immediate goal is to build a functional clay extruder. This unit will then be used to retrofit the CreatorBot Pro as a ceramic printer, and ultimately integrate with a more experimental large-scale CNC devices. There are a number of published open-source designs for ceramic extruders (incomplete list below), both Direct Drive clay printers and liquid deposition modeling (LDM) slip printers.
  
 
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Revision as of 18:40, 23 October 2016

Working page for Ceramic Extruder head for CreatorBot Pro II.

Research Goals

Our immediate goal is to build a functional clay extruder. This unit will then be used to retrofit the CreatorBot Pro as a ceramic printer, and ultimately integrate with a more experimental large-scale CNC devices. There are a number of published open-source designs for ceramic extruders (incomplete list below), both Direct Drive clay printers and liquid deposition modeling (LDM) slip printers.

Timeline

By spring 2017, we would like to:

  1. Implement a ceramic extrusion head from existing designs (see references below) or develop our own.
  2. Retrofit the CreatorBot Pro cartesian platform and motor driver firmware with the ceramic print head. (We have support from Ben Kilar, the CreatorBot designer)
  3. Adapt the print head to open-format big-area manufacturing CNC platforms.

References

Direct Clay Printer:

Slip Printer:

Ceramic Delta Printer by JKeep:

190px-Ceramic_delta1.jpg

CeramicPrintHead_1.jpg

Other: