On Tue, 8/20/13, Tolip Wen <[email protected]> wrote: Many 3D printers have moving extruder heads driven on 1 axis by a 1/4" XL belt, and weight may affect speed and accuracy. The idea I addressed was to mount the A/D conversion on the printhead with no thermocouple wire flexure and use cheaper easily replaced wire to communicate with the rest of the system via protocol of choice. --------------------
Check this out. Dual head extruder run with one motor. http://hackaday.com/2013/08/10/dual-extruders-in-the-space-of-one-stepper-motor Brings CMYK 3D printing closer to the desktop. Get the mix point close enough to the nozzle and with some lookahead on the color mixing... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
