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Tropical Labs team made a coffee maker into a Delta 3d printer. Interesting hack. Tropical Labs engineers have been developing a flexible design for ultra-affordable 3D printers and this a part of their efforts.
Video of the Delta printing:
Printer features:
- Coffee maker, Tropical Labs used an old Norelco 12 model they found at a thrift shop, but any coffee maker with a hot plate could potentially work
- Arduino Mega 2560
- RAMPS 1.4
- A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier
- Nema 17 stepper motors
- Home switches, optical or otherwise
- 3D printer hot end/extruder – again, any kind will do; Tropical Labs snagged theirs on eBay
- 12V power supply
- Solid state relay (Fotek SSR-40 or similar)
- Ball joints
- 4-40 threaded rod
Project homepage:
http://tropical-labs.com/index.php/3d-printers/coffee-maker-delta
Source:
https://hackaday.io/project/11346-coffee-maker-delta-3d-printer
