Pentarod 5 Axis 3D Printer

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Øyvind Kallevik Grutle developed his own 5 axis 3d printer based on RepRap Ormerod where he added additional A and C axis.

Our community is stuck for too long in standard 3 axis design and we need new multiaxial machines to move forward.

Here is what he writes about his project:

This is the result of my master thesis at the University of Oslo, at department for robotics.

The printer is a modified RepRap Ormerod, with two added axis (A and C).
This master thesis have been a proof of concept, but since it was working I decided to try two hypotheses, is it possible to print without support (what you see in this video) and is it possible to make a smooth finish on a surface which are in another plane than the xy-plane (what you see in the two other videos).

All the g-code for these parts are basically hand written (with the help of java). I have been using spherical coordinate system to compute the paths and therefore all the parts are round.

With the exception of the 5-axis system that moves along the y-axis almost all the parts are from the RepRap Pro Ormerod 1.
The videos are at 40X speed.

Hopefully he will open source the build plans soon.


Pentarod in action:










For a more professional five axis machine see:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2015/06/5axismaker-is-next-generation-of.html

Source and more information:

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/open-source-5-axis-3d-printer-built-by-master-student-01-07-2015/

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