#MakiBox Midweek Glimpse - Made to Measure
2021-10-31 17:28 by Jonathan Buford (comments: 0)
This week is filled with testing a stronger gear box and connecting up the rest of the extrusion system to start test prints.
The photo is the magnetic rotary sensors we are using for tracking the filament output. These chips sense the angle of rotation of a magnetic field precisely enough that we will have around 0.03mm or better accuracy on the movement of the filament available.
We've been doing some reconfiguring of hosting, preparing to switch to the new site, and inadvertently ran into some extended routing issues on the Makible.com site that should be resolved. We will be bringing the new blog/store/forum live soon that will focus on MakiBox.
Stay tuned later this week, it is likely to be some hot messy plastic getting laid out in geometric patterns.
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Nope, there is a small magnet that is riding on the filament to track it. Not outside of the acceptable parameters of the device. We will work the three laws into the firmware by that point.
1. AC field 2. Vibration 3. Heat. I am assuming none of these apply in its placement....
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that is how it works. But, yes, it is measuring solidified filament,
not liquid plastic.
I am so happy about your creative progress.
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