InnoEx Printer Development - ME310
Collaboration tools developed for Clariant during the course of the ME310 class at Stanford University. Details on the printer development
View of a setup
Date: 2012-2013
Location: Stanford, CA
Project: InnoEx
Team: Alexandre Jais, Daniel Levick, Hao Jiang, Scarlett Jiang, Timo Von Bargen, Raphael Thommen
Role: Hardware architecture design, Mechanical engineering
For the InnoEx project, the Stanford's team design research effort led them to focus their effort around the development of a platform for tangible innovation in Hardware. The InnoExInPerson concept was then born, as part of the effort to bring physicality in our collaboration platform. InnoExInPerson wants to get innovators to phisically collaborate and quickly build their ideas using a novel 3D Printing approach developped during the project.
The printer itself is based on the open source printer design by Josef Prusa, boosted with a custom dual printhead system of our own design. The first printed allows the deposition of extruded plastic while the second printhead allows deposition of a wide variety of pastes, including conductive pastes, but also for our early testing peanut butter.
3D printed electronic circuits and smart devices will be the future of consumer level additive manufacturing. The 3D printer has now evolved into a separate project, Rabbit Proto.
Detailed extruder view
Multiple syringe extruder generations.
Peanut Butter Tests
