It's Finally Working! 5-Axis 3D Printer Upgrades

I'm thrilled to follow along with this. The community NEEDS more edge-case/off-the-beaten-track projects like this actually getting documented with more detail than just pointing a webcam at the final product! Thanks for sharing!

All hail open-source. The fact that people can achieve this in their own workspace is mind-blowing . No more waiting for sponsorships and funding - think it - build it. Incredible.

It is incredibly interesting to see how 3D-printer hardware continues to be light-years ahead of the software.

You know what's beautiful about the 3d printing community? It's always evolving and the reason is the "community". Every now and then we see some individual/company (mostly individuals) give back to community by releasing their developments as open source.

This guy is a Serious engineer. It's common for an engineer to know one "art" really well, but to be adept at electrical, mechanical, and software is very impressive. I hope some technology company has been smart enough to hire you. Resume? Point them at this video! I tip my hat to you, sir!

This is the real future of FDM printers.

Because you efforted through the mayhem, boosted innovation, and thus making you a world class local hero for open source, dude, man, brotherrrr!!

He's back! Glad to see people aren't sleeping on how great this is. We're seeing the future of 3D printing being forged in real time. This isn't going to hit production any time soon due to adhesion issues on large models, but it ABSOLUTELY will one day because the ability to avoid supports is simply that valuable

Possibly the second biggest benefit to your printer is the potential to utilize a square opening nozzle since you can overcome the x,y coordinate directionality limitation/compromise of traditional printers that require a circular opening to accommodate the non x,y coordinate movements. I'd love to see what this produces.

El acento argentino es inconfundible jaja. Bien ahí hermano, muy buen proyecto

Z hop is one thing, but now you need “Swing hop” with the angles lol 😂

3d printing is still in its early stages. This is the next stage. I built the first RepRap and was amazed. Can’t wait!

Great to get an update on the project. And very impressive that you got it printing.

amazing work !!

Incredible! This community surprises me more and more, I hope at some point to carry out projects as advanced as these.

When I saw the rings for your bed conductivity, I just had to mention this. Take a look at how the power setup/generator cabling works in wind turbines. They do some fancy twisted cabling to enable them to turn the turbine head around as many times as it wants without tangling the wires. It'll be a much more stable connection than trying to use bearing conductivity. Robert Murray-Smith did a video on it a while ago.

A. Electroplate nickel "BB's" with copper for better voltage/current transfer w/o causing resistance (crosman sells copper plated 4.5mm "BB's") B. See if you can get a firm spring (like a recoil spring from a pistol spring) to apply tension on the bed rotational bearing, you can tighten, then the spring will allow slight flex and maintain good contact C. Ingenious design!

Nice work ! 5 years ago I did add 4-th rotational axis to a Delta printer and make it work with Machinekit - which is more suited for this kind of kinematics and have some build-in support of it. It was a big fun, but unfortunately hardware part - was an easy part, next big roadblock will be G-Code generation for additional axis, currently some slicers just scratching a surface of non-planar printing. If you need some help with Klipper or with hardware - feel free to ping me, will gladly help you to move forward.

Man builds least rigid 5 axis system and makes surprisingly amazing prints out of it

Nice work. I appreciate all the hard work it takes to innovate and create. I know it can feel like an endless list of struggles and not always know where it is going. Your work is here is part of what will change the future of 3d printing. Way to go!