Hey Hey Beautiful People! Im going to shut down my computer for a while as I leave Panama City Florida. It is time for me to go and heading west for a while is my feeling. There are many opportunities globally being offered to me on many types of various projects but I would LOVE to work on building a large 3D Printer that can print 4 foot cubed for printing Wind Turbines, Big Ones. Also, this could be used to print plastic Auto Body Parts, which I dream of building my own Solar and Wind powered Electric Vehicles. The guys I was working with in the 3D printer group kinda went in other directions than 3D printing with few ever even getting started. Everything went off subject into chaos... It is like that everywhere I look... ha ha Do you see it too? I have posted my open sourced vertical or horizontal axis wind turbine designs before but have yet to complete one of these 3D printers and get started.... I have 1 3D printer I have just completed now but have some things I still need to do before printing. Easy stuff. My plan is to use this one to build parts for the larger unit, while building that unit, at the same time printing smaller wind turbine versions of my designs for testing before printing the larger ones which is the goal. I have plenty of files I have already designed in CAD ready to print on these wind turbines. These are like nothing ever seen on Earth, YET... hehe I will be using permanent magnetic bearings for levitation with no friction losses in my designs too. Magnet and Coil plates used will be 3D printed as well as the Coil Winding Machine. My new designs can also move air from place to place as well as generating electricity. My CAD designs are pretty cool. What used to take me weeks to program I can now do in a few short hours, on these designs anyway. That took some time to get to that point. Since I am new to 3D printing experience, I would LOVE to work with others who are actually printing now and who understand the pitfalls experienced to better understand how to construct a far larger printer. My intent is a design using multi heads for printing many kinds of materials, i.e. plastics, metals, glass, carbon fiber, clay or whatever.... I would like to build this ability into the design and therefore previous experience in 3D printing is preferable but certainly not required. Shop tools or access to is required... BTW... a friend just sent me files ready to go for a new kind of 3D printer that prints circuit boards.... Here we go peeps! Things are getting cool very fast! Replicators are not too far away! I have with me 2 Prusa i3 3Dprinters, with one already assembled and plenty of Filament (27 kg) and I will travel where I need to go. My intent as stated with what I have is to use the electronics and stepper driver motors of this 2nd unassembled printer parts to construct the larger unit. 3D Printers that can print this size on the market which are plug and play are some $35,000-$100,000+ each and cannot do what all functions I would like to build into this one, like a gantry of multiple material print heads ready to go into use all on the same machine. An operational milling machine and lathe will be required to construct this. My dream is that I would like to build the unit into a trailer which could be mobile as well as self sufficient for powering itself. The trailer which the large 3D printer is mounted to would have solar panels, built in wind turbines, as well as battery storage and invertors to run the built in 3D printer.... while in mobile mode it becomes a cargo bay or even a camper. Walls built out of cut foam board overlayed with carbon fiber with windows and side leafs for additional solar panels, pull outs could all be designed into this unit in my vision... but... first the larger 3D printer is the goal. I can see printing plastic car parts for Electric Vehicles also with a unit this sized... The ideas go on and on... especially when you can also integrate an extrusion machine to make filament from recycled plastics which of course is everywhere free.... ha... never need electrical hook ups and all materials free.... Ponder that one! This was my original intent for coming to Panama City and working with Tom before Tom had his stroke a few days after my arrival. I have been here for 4 months now and I must get back to what my original intention and dream has been. I have had these wind turbine designs in mind for 22 years now and with the design complexity they can only be manufactured cost effectively via 3D printing. Old style machining of this design would be impossible without CAD CAM. As always my intention is open sourcing my work and files to anyone interested. Is there anyone out there 3D printing, constructing wind turbines, doing solar or working on this kind of project as described in any other ways and are interested, have machines available and would like to work together on this? Please contact me if you are interested! When proofed you can have the first multi KW 3D Printed wind turbine we make before I head out.... Yes, I plan on being nomadic again! And, we could order extra parts for another ($300 for electronics and driver motors with frame metal, guide rods and all-thread being extra$) build 2 large printers and leave one with yourself. It would do best to leave me a private message here on Facebook or on Skype. I can be found on Skype via my email address: pearls2u@hotmail Much LOVE to ALL! bb
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 05:50:35 +0000
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