A Lego printer

andrew375 · 06-04-2010, 04:24 AM

Dinithion · 06-04-2010, 04:39 AM

Dude! That is the coolest thing I have ever seen made out of lego.

lehoa · 06-05-2010, 03:55 AM

Hi
that's a very interesting printer
But I don't know how did you design it?
could it print with color?
congratulation engineer!
Cheers

XavierP · 06-05-2010, 05:44 AM

It's a single pen plotter only, so you can only print in one colour.

Dogs · 06-05-2010, 01:09 PM

Awfully slow...

(for real, though, people who can do stuff like that will be very valuable in a post-apocalyptic future. I mean, if my lego-printer manufacturer got nabbed by the baddies, I might send my whole damn army to get him back. Gotta keep that propaganda rolling.)

MTK358 · 06-05-2010, 03:06 PM

Amazing!

smeezekitty · 06-05-2010, 03:51 PM

Why not make it out of sturdy materials.
LEgo is not interesting.

MTK358 · 06-05-2010, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by smeezekitty

LEgo is not interesting.

I think it's nice. I used to make things using Mindstorms a lot.

If I manage to revive my interest in microcontrollers and robotics I might make a few more things.

salasi · 06-06-2010, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Dinithion

Dude! That is the coolest thing I have ever seen made out of lego.

I did see, but can't currently find, a Lego device that swaps backup tapes. I think that gets the award for carrying on with a stupid idea to the point that it becomes impressive, but the video of this printer in operation is quite something.

fruttenboel · 06-06-2010, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by andrew375

Hello world

it looks soooooooooo simple what you made but it isnt! well done! great machine, well engineered, the puppets are nice. and your printer works as a true inkjet printer would!

well done! how long did it take you to get the mechanics working?
did you write your own software? in which language? you hve the code online?

inform Lego. they may be interested in buying it.

i still got that smile on my face........

fruttenboel · 06-06-2010, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by smeezekitty

Why not make it out of sturdy materials.
LEgo is not interesting.

c'mon smeeze wake up. the fact that you didn;t think of this doesn't mean that it sucks. this is a great project, well made with all materials used beyond of the scope they were designed for.

XavierP · 06-06-2010, 06:07 AM

I agree. Linux is a supposedly a hacker's OS and this guy has done just that, I'm surprised this isn't something you haven't already looked at smeeze.

damgar · 06-06-2010, 09:34 AM

Truely awesome.

GrapefruiTgirl · 06-09-2010, 08:03 AM

Might be slow, clunky, or whatever, but I think it's definitely very cool! Very nice work.

Sasha

SlowCoder · 06-09-2010, 04:14 PM

I watched the video, which I really do think is quite cool, from multiple angles. But I never assumed andrew375 built it. I see a lot of assumptions, when andrew has not indicated in any way that it was his project. Why the assumptions?