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Validação de Projeto: Refinando o Nosso Sistema de Automação 3D com Rui Lopes

Dando continuidade ao desenvolvimento do nosso sistema de automação para impressoras 3D, realizámos recentemente uma sessão de validação com o Rui Lopes, experiente maker e gestor na Invicta3D. O propósito desta conversa foi apresentar o estado atual do nosso projeto, demonstrar a evolução mecânica através de vídeos do protótipo em pleno funcionamento e colher feedback crítico sobre o seu alinhamento com as necessidades reais do mercado.

OctoPrint Investigation and the Transition to Fluidd

Besides monitoring print quality, we needed a practical way to manage the printer remotely. Our first idea was to look into OctoPrint, which is one of the most well-known tools in the 3D printing community. However, things didn’t go exactly as planned, and we had to pivot our strategy.

The Illusion of Universal Control: The Hardest Part of Building for 3D Printers

When we first envisioned our unified web application, the goal sounded simple: build a beautiful, modern dashboard where a user could look at all their 3D printers, upload a file, and hit “Print.”

Building for a Fleet When You Only Have One Printer: The Power of Simulation

If you are building a SaaS application, your testing environment is just code. You can spin up a thousand virtual users with a script and watch how your database handles the load.

Development of the Linear Actuator System for Automatic Part Removal

The main objective of this stage was to create a mechanism capable of flexing the print bed automatically after a print is completed, allowing the printed object to detach without manual intervention.

Designing Custom Tilted Bases for Automated Part Removal

One of the core challenges of our automated 3D printing system is successfully clearing the print bed without human intervention. Over the past months, we have discussed many mechanical solutions to this problem, one of them being the 3D modelling of custom bases (feet) for the printer that tilt the entire machine.