Gene writes –
Have you ever dreamed of having one of those replicators from Star Trek? Ever wanted to make just about anything at the flip of a switch? Well guess what? You’re in luck, because in this Instructable I will show you how to make the closest thing to a replicator that current technology can manage; a 3D printer. Wait a minute, isn’t there another Instructable on how to make a 3D printer from Legos? Yep, there is, but this 3D printer is different; it’s a polar 3D printer and it’s capable of printing out so much more than just chocolate. Now at this point in the intro you’re probably thinking what do I mean by polar 3D-printer. Is it a 3D-printer that only works in the in the polar regions? A polar printer is a printer whose principal axes, or how it can move, are radius(in and out), angle(spin clockwise/counter clockwise), and as opposed to a Cartesian printer whose principal axes are X(left/right), Y(up/down). In other words, it moves just like a polar coordinate system.
HOW TO – Build a Polar 3-D printer from LEGO – Link.
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it’s a bitch to make a square in polar coordinates!
The plural of Lego is actually just Lego, NOT Legos.
The plural of Lego is actually just Lego, NOT Legos.
Since you like correcting people so much, badburt… it’s LEGO, not Lego ;)
where is the video? I can’t visualize what a polar motion printer is.
where is the video? I can’t visualize what a polar motion printer is.
where is the video? I can’t visualize what a polar motion printer is.