Printing in black

[revar]

Now witness the power of this fully Armed and Operational battle 'struder!

Click here for video of running extruder

Comments

[yasha_taur]

Damn, it not only works, but also looks darn sexy! :-)

[smack_jackal]

But do you have a teapot?

[cjthomas]

How thick are the lines/layers being laid down, and what's the line pitch? (It's hard to tell scale from the video.)

Still plotting test-objects and test-fractals, but it's a backburner project for now. I'm also going to have to research the utilities MakerBot uses to turn STL into scanned lines, as some of my test-objects would work better if I could specify them directly as tracks rather than as volumes to be rasterized.

-Deuce

[krin_o_o_]

I wonder ... If you adjust the heating element right....
Could you extrude models from licorice whips? Or string cheese?

- krin

[cjthomas]

The extruder feed wasn't set up in a way that lent itself to string cheese, if memory serves, but licorice, hard caramel, and similar might be compatible with it. The nozzle has a carefully-controlled temperature, and candy temperatures are within its range. I second the request for tests! };>