Arc Bicycle 3D Printed with MX3D Robotic Arm

Arc Bicycle is made from a metal lattice frame 3D printed with MX3D robotic arm. It looks very cool, both futuristic and organic.





Project description:

A student team from TU Delft in the Netherlands designed and produced a fully functional 3D printed stainless steel bicycle. The students achieved the goal of their three-month project by printing the frame of the with the help of MX3D in Amsterdam. The Arc Bicycle is the first ever 3D printed metal bicycle to be produced using a welding process. For information please contact:

Project Coordinator: J.C.Verlinden@tudelft.nl

Student Team: arcbicycle@gmail.com

MX3D: press@mx3d.com

Here you can see a close-up of frame being 3d printed with metal welding 3d print head attached to industrial grade robotic arm:

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3D Systems SLAbot-1 Stereolitographic Robotic Manufacturing Cell

SLAbot-1 is a robotic arm which is used as a stereolitography apparatus in a small self-contained manufacturing cell. It enables very fast 3d printing based on resin and projection device and further manipulation of produced object. It is a concept demonstration but it could be used in some future manufacturing setting providing customized 3d printed parts.


3D Systems describe it as:

The SLAbot-1 uses an industrial robotic arm, producing parts in sequence. This modular, assembly-line-ready additive manufacturing can be configured in large arrays and enables distributed, automated, high-speed, customized manufacturing.

Here is SLAbot-1 in action:





Here is a more detailed presentation of the system which is based on a patent that is 30 years old:




SLAbot is clearly based on DENSO Robotics arm.

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IBM 7575 Industrial Robot Hacked Into SCARA 3D Printer

Sometimes you have an industrial robotic arm you want to modify into something else. Like 3d printer. BIG SCARA 3d printer.




Project homepage with build log and open sourced software:

http://transistor-man.com/3dprintbot.html

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Makerarm Robotic Multitool

Makerarm is another step towards full desktop manufacturing system. It is a robotic arm with many tool attachments for 3d printing, milling, drawing foam cutting, PCB manufacturing and other.
It still looks like hobby or entry-level system but we are slowly moving towards prosumer home production robots.
It supports both FDM and SLA 3d printing.


Makerarm promotional video:




Makerarm homepage:

http://makerarm.com/

It is also on Kickstarter where you can get it:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1849283018/makerarm-the-first-robotic-arm-that-makes-anything

3d printing Makerarm attachment. It also supports SLA 3d printing.  

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Stone And Rope 3D Printing with Rock Print

Rock Print is a robotic 3d printer that lays textile ropes on bed of stones conceting them and makong an architectural shape. 

Rock Print in action:

Project description:

Rock Print is the first architectural installation to be built from low-grade granular material and constructed by robotic machines. Conceived as an intriguing vertical object, the installation presents a radically new approach to The State of the Art of Architecture – the official title of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015 – and brings forward a new category of random packed, potentially fully reusable, poly-dispersed jammed structures that can be automatically fabricated in non-standard shapes. Following an initial period of robotic assembly, the installation will comprise a large-scale architectural artefact in its completed form, exhibiting distinct features, such as, for example, full material reversibility and the respective reusability of the aggregated materials; structurally active interlocking, differentiated structural performance, while yielding high geometric flexibility and articulation. Performing a full scale 3D “rock printing process” that uses the self-aggregating capacities of the material itself, this visionary project is the first collaborative installation by Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT. The Chicago Architecture Biennial will open on 3rd October 2015 and will close on 3rd January 2016. For more information: www.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org

Credits
Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and Self-Assembly Lab, MIT
Team
Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Skylar Tibbits, Andreas Thoma (project lead installation), Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindstroem (project lead research), Volker Helm, Sara Falcone, Lina Kara’in, Jared Laucks, Michael Lyrenmann, Carrie McKnelly, George Varnavides, Stephane de Weck, Jan Willmann
Selected experts
Prof. Dr. Hans J. Herrmann and Dr. Falk K. Wittel (ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Heinrich Jaeger and Kieran Murphy (Chicago University)

Selected consultants
Walt + Galmarini AG
Support
The project is supported by ETH Zurich and the Department of Architecture as well as by an ETH Zurich Research Grant. It is co-supported by MIT’s Department of Architecture, the MIT International Design Center, and an MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) Grant.

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ROBOpuppet low cost 3d printed control unit for industrial robots

"Robots are hard to drive. ROBOPuppet exists to make them easier to drive." This is a first sentence on ROBOpuppet "About" page and it explains this project perfectly.

ROBOpuppet is basically a miniature copy of full size industrial robot that you can move and use it as simple low cost control unit. All the movements of the ROBopuppet are followed by the big robot.

This teleoperation control unit can be made for as low as 85 USD. 

http://www.iu.edu/~motion/robopuppet/

You can make this robot control unit yourself. All the files and instructions are published at:

http://www.iu.edu/~motion/robopuppet/method.html

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Oddbot is 3d printable DIY robot with Mecanum wheels

Oddbot is 3d printable open source DIY robot with omnidirectional Mecanum wheels which you can make yourself with your 3d printer. It is aimed at robotics education and small projects. It doesn't look optimized for FDM printers but it is probably possible to do it.

Mecanum wheel

Detailed construction instructions with all the files and software can be found at:

http://www.odd.org.nz/oddbot.html


The project is developed by Olaf Diegel whois  well known for his 3d printed electric guitars and 3d printed saxophone.

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Holonomic drive DIY 3d printer is something completely different!

Now here is one completely new and innovative 3d printer developed by Sugapes on hackaday.io

The xy movement and print platform is actually a holonomic drive vehicle with three omnidirectional wheels attached to continuous rotation servos with four USB optical computer mice being used for a closed loop system. Print head is attached on z axis so basically the xy surface is unlimited.

The machine is still under development but it should be low in cost to make. It will be very interesting to see printed parts. The precision will probably bi a little rough.

Follow the build progress and learn much more details on:

http://hackaday.io/project/1544-Cheap-and-Easy-to-Build-3D-Printer

Holonomic drive is a movement system where a object can move in any direction without a need to turn.

Update:

They developed a holonomic drive robot 3d printer in Brazil:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/12/3-holonomic-robotic-3d-printer-from.html

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4d printing creepy crawling robots

And they self-assemble too.

From the researchers who brought us Inchworm here comes new self-folding small robotic beast. Sam Felton and colleagues from Harvard and MIT developed this more complex robot that can go from flat to folded and walking in four minutes without any human intervention at all.




Source and more details:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/self-folding-printable-origami-robot

As always, I welcome our new robotic overlord.

See more on 4d printing here:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/06/some-updates-on-4d-printing-and-baking.html

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