PORTABLE 3D PRINTER-SCANNER

STEP 1: FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL

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BACKGROUND

When I was twelve, I was introduced to the notion of digital fabrication by Beno, Víctor, Durgha and Delia in a reunion about children toys at Beno's house. The possibility that I would be able to "touch my ideas" was amazing for me, but it seemed more less distant until Beno showed me a video. (Click the link below).

PORTABLE 3D PRINTER-SCANNER BACKGROUND VIDEO

After watching the machine used in the video, I thought that an affordable personal digital fabrication machine was the key to reach fabrication democracy, which I understood as the objective of digital fabrication.

Later, when I was fourteen and took the Pre-Fab Academy conducted by Víctor and Beno, I was told to design something creative. At that moment, I remembered how Fabbers at UNI used to use the milk scanner technique before there were 3D scanners available and the technique worked well, but it took too long. Therefore I designed an automatic milk scanner on cardboard.

When the Fab Academy started, I suddenly was reminded of these two experiences and decided to make my dream a fact, so I began doing online research on portable 3D printersa and found the Magic Mill (Ian Moyer-2013). I was really fascinated by Magic Mill's mechanism, because it was simple and all the motors where in the same level, so the machine could be foldable.

Finally, I decided to combine Magic Mill's Mechanism with the idea of a foldable machine and my new renovated automatic milk scanner design. The result is my final project proposal:  A Portable 3D Printer-Scanner (There's no official name yet).

OBJECTIVE

Build a Portable 3D Printer-Scanner

SKETCH

MAGIC MILL
         
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AUTOMATIC 3D MILK SCANNER

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PORTABLE 3D PRINTER-SCANNER (DESIGN IN PROCESS)

  MACHINE IN PROCESS - OMAR AGUILAR (2015)
MATERIALS

1. Wood
2. Pulleys
3. Motors
4. Dark liquid (ex. Chicha)
5. Pump
6. Valve
7. Container
8. Depth Sensor
9. Cork
10. Cellphone
11. Fabduino
12. Drivers

FUNCTION

1. MAGIC MILL:

- System of pulleys: Allows the machine to move its X and Z axis while having two still motors at the same floor level.

2. AUTOMATIC 3D MILK SCANNER:

- Pump-Valve-Container Sytem: Provides the cube where the object to be scanned is of 1cm¨3 of liquid per photograph.
- Sensor-Cork System-Fabduino System: Measures the depth of the liquid and sends the depth information to the Fabduino
- Fabduino-Bluetooth-Cellphone System: Sends depth information to the cellphone and indicates it to take a picture

3. PORTABLE 3D PRINTER-SCANNER

- Y Axis System: Allows the machine to have a Y axis that does not interfere with the foldable nature of the Portable 3D Printer-Scanner
- Left and Right rectangular blocks System: Allows the machine to fold and stand strongly.
- Foldable Automatic 3D Milk Scanner System (not yet designed): Willl allow the 3D Scanner to fold while letting the 3D Printer to fold also.

TIMELINE

TIMELINE

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UPLOADING WEBS

1. Guide yourself using Fab UNI tutorial
I will translate the tutorial from Spanish to English in the following steps (with a few updates).

2. Enter to Ubuntu
3. Open the Terminal
4. Log yourself as root
5. Write 'Ctrl + Shift + t' (new tab is opened)
6. Write 'cd academy.2015'
7. Write 'hg pull'
8. Write 'hg update'
9. In the new tab, write 'nautilus'
Note: nautilus = Allows brows one's home folder.
10. Sometimes the folder is not found
11. Write 'System of Archives'
12. Write 'Home'
13. Enter to folder 'academy.2015'
14. Enter to either 'instructors' or 'students' depending on what you are.
15. In my case, it will be 'aguilar.omar'
16. Open the previous folder
17. Open index.html
18. Add (in my case)

<p><b>Fablab TECSUP (Lima - Peru)</b><br>

<a href="aguilar.omar/index.html">Omar Aguilar</a><br>

19. We go back to the previous tab
20. Write 'hg add'
21. Write 'hg commit -m' "make a cpmment"
22. Write whatever
23. Write 'hg push'
24. Open Terminal
25. Open to tabs (Ctrl + Shift + t)
26. Write 'cd academy.2015'
27. Write 'hg pull'
28. Write 'hg update'
29. Execute 'nautilus' in the second tab
30. We visually look for 'aguilar.omar'
31. Open the previous folder
32. We copy all the archives we want in there (index, assignments, images, etc.)
33. Move to the first tab
34. Write 'hg add'
35. Write 'hg commit -m' "make a cpmment"
36. Write whatever
37. Write 'hg push'