- Benjamin Heckendorn
- An electronics hacking entertainment guru
- Former host of Element 14’s “ The Ben Heck Show”.
- Chris Kraft
- A tinkerer currently working as a software engineer in the financial services industry
- Extensive background in 3d printing and building anything that seems interesting
- Past two years
- Hangprinter
- A very simplified explanation is you take a delta printer but instead of having the three motors that are attached to the side frame you instead locate those motors wherever and have wires/cables/etc that run up to points that you mount
- Some videos that show how it works
- The first new/interesting thing Chris has seen in awhile
- Project is open source so people are free to contribute and find ways to improve the design
- One thing I feel is potentially a missed opportunity is the focus is on making it cheap
- ODrive
- Designed to give motor control to hobby grade brushless DC motors instead of stepper motors
- Hackaday.io project
- New Makerbot printer named "Method"
- Non-heated bed is a “feature”?
- Latest design seems to prefer technologies that Stratesys can or already has patented
- Consider the humble Luffa
- For a long time manufacturing has mostly used subtractive techniques
- Until recently most manufacturing was about taking raw materials and cutting, bending, etc into the desired pattern
- Look at that infill
- Additive manufacturing is really different when you think about the possibilities
- What if we could use CRISPR to "reprogram" plants to produce other things? Like growing a replacement organs, body parts or something else completely?
Tags: BenHeck, Benjamin Heckendorn, Chris Kraft, electronics podcast, Hangprinter, Luffa, MacroFab, macrofabe ngineering podcast, Makerbot Method, ODrive, SLA Resin Pritners
