Oooh! That's impressive. I'd love to make it - are the .stl files available somewhere?

Great Stuff Danny!!! Thanks for showing the process!

Amazing that it can be printed as an assembly. Does the post-process in the bath erode all the pieces by the same amount? Or does it somehow erode only the unwanted supports?

Ed

That's awesome Danny!

I love it! From your imagination to real life.

Hi beanworks,

> Question: How much clearance did you allow between articulating parts i.e. the gear teeth that intermesh. My guess is about .003"

0.003" is a bit too fine the 3d printing process it isn't that accurate yet, the gears I had to leave a 0.008" (0.2mm) gap and the spindles after the first attempt being fused to the body I had to increase the hole diameter to have a 0.030" (0.75mm) clearance overall, that's 0.015" (0.38mm) per side.

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Hi Michael,

Thanks! the Mojo printer is designed for entry level small professional design houses it's really well made and with the heated chamber the finish is great.

> are there any particular things that you are planning on working on next with a similar design?

Yeah, I started working on a design using a proven walking mechanism that looks so surreal from a Dutch design artist Theo Jansen pronounced (Tayo Yansen) and his creepy but cool Strandbeest's http://www.strandbeest.com/ I'm going to see if I can drive them with the wind-up motor.

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Hi Burr,

Thanks man!

>Nice! Wish I could have folded the plans for that one............

Trying to save the trees, from computer to printer no plans required :)

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Hi Mike,

Thanks!

> are the .stl files available somewhere?

They were however I've taken them down for now until I sort a few things out, if you like PM me your email and I let you know when they're available.

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Hi Ed,

> Does the post-process in the bath erode all the pieces by the same amount? Or does it somehow erode only the unwanted supports?

It only erodes the unwanted support material, doesn't affect the piece at all, the support material is soluble in a high alkaline solution if you want to have a look at what the support material is you can find info on it here http://www.stratasys.com/~/media/Main/Secure/MSDS/SR-30_Support/MSDS_US_SR-30_Soluble-Support-Material.pdf

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You're welcome danperk,

Thanks Mike K4ICY.
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I have made some publicity of it (and for Moi in the same occasion! :)

Thanks Pilou,

Can I ask where?

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Sure :)
Sketchucation.com
And some French 3D forum :)
polyloop.net
modology.fr
Zbrush.fr
3Dsaloon.fr
3dvf.com
3D-station.fr
and frenchcinema4d.fr when this one will be re open during the journey :)
purebasic.fr/french/

Cool stuff Danny !!
(...thanks also for posting clearance units in millimeters... ;) )

Hi Danny,

> Yeah, I started working on a design using a proven walking mechanism that looks so
> surreal from a Dutch design artist Theo Jansen pronounced (Tayo Yansen) and his
> creepy but cool Strandbeest's http://www.strandbeest.com/ I'm going to see if I can
> drive them with the wind-up motor.

Oh yeah those things are awesome! That sounds like a really cool use of the wind up energy.

- Michael

Very cool! I have been doing a ton of MoI + 3D printing, but am far lazier and haven't documented much. I'm using MoI's awesome OBJ export features for my model interchange and it has been a delight. Printing on a Replicator 2 and a friend is using a RepRap with similar results.

FYI - for those considering picking up a basic single-extruder printer such as the RepRap, Ultimaker, MakerBot, this kind of model is not very easy to print (if it is even possible). You'll need a dual-extruder printer or something like the Mojo that can print support structures. This model is a pretty good sales pitch for dual-extruder :) I think the part clearance would probably work for lower end FDM printers (I can do 0.25mm clearance with the Rep2 pretty reliably).

-FDP