"Robotic" 3D printer names

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"Robotic" 3D printer names

Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 1 year ago

About 8-10 years ago I built my first 3D printer from scratch. It's design was based on various designs found in the online Rep-Rap project. At the time many 3D printer companies were naming themselves, or their products with the word 'robot' in the name, such as Makerbot or Printerbot. So I named by first printer 'Cobalt' after Astroboy's brother, though I later changed this to Kobaruto to use the Japanese form of the name.

My second printer was called 'Wilson', because it was built from a kit of parts for the RepRap Wilson design, which it followed. Later on after I had made many mods to the printer, I was thinking of calling it either 'Mars', or 'Uran', but this never officially happened.

After moving north and having to leave both of those printers behind I wanted to acquire another one, though I no longer had the shop tools to build a 3D printer from scratch. So I bought an Ender 3 Pro fro Creality. This is a Chinese made printer, but it's very well designed and has gotten good reviews from the 3D printer community. It's also open source, so it's easy to upgrade. I've already made a few upgrades to the filament feed system, and will probably do some other common mods. I've slapped the name 'Denkou' on it and when I rebuild the firmware to add new functions, it will identify itself as 'Denkou' on power up. Seems like a suitable name for a 3D printer.
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Re: "Robotic" 3D printer names

Postby MrsEclipse » 1 year ago

All of those are great names for 3D printers :lol:

I have an Ender 5 Plus. You're right, they're great machines.
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Re: "Robotic" 3D printer names

Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 1 year ago

IIRC the Ender 5 series are core XY designs where the print nozzle moves in the X&Y directions and the build plate in the Z direction. The Ender 3 series copy the Prusia design where the build plate moves in the Y direction, and the print nozzle in the X & Z directions. Technically, the Core XY design can print faster and takes up less of a foot print on the work table, but they tend to be more expensive than the Prusa derived designs. The Ender 5 is an excellent choice if you need a faster printer that can also be easily enclosed to keep the heat in for printing ABS without warping. The Ender 3 series will do well on PLA and PETG, but no so much on ABS.
I no longer use ABS as PETG has most of the advantages of ABS, and doesn't produce the nasty outgassing fumes that ABS can. Still, ABS is an easy plastic to glue with solvent based plastic cements, it is the plastic that most model trains and planes are cast in.

Now if I could only find an STL or other CAD file for some Tezuka Character figures, I don't have the artistic talent or CAD skills to do that myself!
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