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Hello dear fellow đ. Welcome to the final task I had to do for Fab Academy 2020 (Pandemic Version).
I had no clue what to do for that week and I do not like composites that much, so that I got excited as well as relieved when my colleage Abdelrahman mentioned that we've got "The Pancake Bot" in our lab and he suggested that I could use it for this week.
Learning Resources
All I wanted to know was:
1- The extention of the file used and whether we use a special software to generate it.
2- How to use the machine itself.
3- How to make a propper pancake batter for the perpose of printing.
I did some research on Youtube and got to these videos (overview, software & trial
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Approach:
1- I searched the internet for the perfect pancake recipe and found this one which seemed alright.
2- I ordered the ingredients from a nearby supermarket.
3- I searched the lab for a mixer, a bowl and some tools to use.
4- The ingredients of the recipe was in cups, teaspoons and tablespoons, so I searched the internet for their equivilent in weight (grams).
Software steps:
First off I had to choose a desgin with distinctive black and white parts. I had to decide between a penguin and a panda. Apparently the panda won :D
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To generate the gcode the first thing I did was to download and install the software.
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Baking steps:
Here starts the most fun paaaaaaaaaaaart. đ
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I adjusted the temperature of the heated bed to somewhere between warm and low and that was perfect.
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Observations:
The panda shaped pancake turned out incomplete.
Possible reasons:
1- Batter was too thick for the settings I set the machine to.
2- Machine is moving too fast.
3- The bottle pressure is low (weakly pushing the batter out).
My solution:
1- Adding a little bit more milk to the batter.
2- Decreasing the suction by increasing pressure inside the bottle.
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Downloadables: đž
Panda AutoCAD fileHere
Panda file.gcodeHere
Panda file.pbpHere
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Šī¸ Row'a M. M. Othman - Fab Academy 2020