JAKE

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Group Project

The project began with me and Samuel talking through what ideas we had and what might be interesting to follow for this short assignment.

We came up with a few ideas that interested us both.

-Experimentating with interpolated movement

-Continuing with wire bender machine

-Making printed part smoother with hot nozzle

We decided to try the interpolated movement for the printer. To do this we needed to make an extended nozzle that could clear the workpiece as it was cutting or printing.

Once we made the nozzle, we had to figure out how to make the printer move in 3 axes. This was really quite difficult as 3d printers are not built to be able to do this.

We split into groups in order to find a wasy to get it to work. One group looked at a pre exisiting method that used a plug-in for slic3r to print in 3-axes.

Merle, SIiri and I experimented with trying to use the manufacture section of Fusion360 and convert a CNC g.code into a 3D printer g.code.

This proved to be more difficult than we thought, but with the help of Charlotte from the Digilab we were able to figure it out.

Below are the some of the tests that I tried on Fusion.

These models below are what were used for the final drawings that you see on the wall in the presentation.

We first tried melting through a piece of foam with this g.code that we made and it sort of worked, but we didn't think it represented the intervention that we made well enough

At this point we decided that the technique was promising enough that we could try to continue with it further.

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