same, but now i have 2 creality printers, back then it felt like a daunting thing to make, but now it just feels like a weekend project that i would do, and watching it now one can easily point out where the design/idea has flaws and can be improved
From the clip at the begining of the video I tought the print quality was going to be sketchy af but seing the close up at the end I must say I'm impressed by how good it looks ! I'd love to see some 3D prints that come out of it !
Having recently gotten my first 3d printer I find this fascinating. I love the idea of using old parts live CD/DVD drives to build a rudimentary 3d printer and then to use it to make parts to build a larger and better 3d printer.
@@josephblomstrand6348 Ever heard of the channel SunShine?? He's been on a mission to build a 3D printer that can print ITSELF. He's honestly such a creative guy and has some really awesome projects on his channel!
I couldn't build that in a hundred years.. Even watching you do it if I had all the parts. You make it look easy because you know exactly what you are doing and are able to make adjustments on the fly. I wish I had the skill of knowing electronics. Nice video amazing to watch you create that.
Wow....watching this vid 7 years in the future and my mind is blown. Seeing how far 3d printers have come and seeing you building one out of scrap parts is amazing. Awesome job man. I saw your recent Minions video and i definitely subbed 🙏🏼
If more people request a tutorial then I'll probably make one. Update: The video is out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3p8BP7B7Pmw.html
The project is a very good learning experience. The only thing that stopped me from making something similar is the little travel CD drives lenses have which limits the print volume to aprox 4x4x4 cm (1.5x1.5x1.5 in). In the video I think the print looks decently large but it's at most the size I said.
i could be given all the parts needed,50 years and your video,and i guarantee id never get it half made[nothing to do with your video]but this stuff either registers with your brain or dosnt,i love electronics,unfortunately electronics dont love me,id give 5 years of my life to be able to have your level of understanding,and think these things up and make them,ive watched countless vids on raspberry pi,and those aduinos,i couldnt get one to turn on a LED,dam this tiny brain of mine
I was impressed before I saw the cd drives in the title cuz I didn’t see it but now my mind feels like a pathetic grain of sand compared to this mans clearly superior man intelect
The real price is much higher than $50, but the frugality is a good example of how tools you might have and old electronics can save a lot of money. Educational? Yep. Worth the time and effort? That depends on how much precision is required
Jesus Christ man, you're a bloody genius! ! How do you know all this stuff at such a young age! ?! Man, you're gonna become a millionaire before you've even turned 25, mark my words! 😃 BTW, would you be interested in selling a 3d printer from your own designs,?
Hey there. I wanted to say that after seeing how your printer performed at the end while printing the star pattern, it looks like the objects would come out better if you turned off lift and filament retraction.
If you spent $15 on a hotend and $15 on a NEMA17 motor, driver and extruder, you'd get much better results with a reasonably sized nozzle. $15 on an arduino mega+RAMPS1.4 shield w/ jumpers and drivers and you could control this with an actual 3D printer controller that would automatically slice objects so you wouldn't need to custom write gcode. And I hate to be that guy but i doubt those prints are close to square. You should square it up then add bracing to the frame to make it stiffer, as it's pretty crucial if you want any degree of repeatability in your prints. Really cool microprinter, though. But it's not really useful even for decorative prints unless you can slice and print actual models instead of writing your own gcode. There's only so much you can do with G1 X(x) Y(x) Z(x) E(x)
I actually thought about building it with those parts but I had already bought the parts I used when I found out about it. Thanks for the advice. I mostly build this printer just as a challenge and just for fun. I never intended to use it for anything very useful. The prints are actually far from square because I am using 2 different sizes of stepper motors so the prints end up oblong. But when I design it oblong than it prints closer to square size.
Electronic Grenade If you ever decide to upgrade to the arduino/RAMPS setup, you can configure the steps/mm and prints will turn out the correct size, I meant more of literal square, like if they're skewed.
reminds me a lot of tinkernut's 3d printer. also, if you were to add a real hotend and a ramps controller, you could probably get some useable prints out of it.
That's where I got the inspiration for mine. I didn't realise that that could be done until i already bought all of the parts. I wish I researched it a little more but I'm still happy with it.
Maybe such a solution has already been found in the 6 years since this video was released, but I bet a lot more precision could be gained simply by finding a way to more rigidly attach the hot end. Glue is definitely not known for its rigidity.
This is true, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that we expect to see misspelled words as a matter of course due to our increased exposure to poor grammar on the internet (mine included).
that's pretty bad ass I had this same idea but am not all that good with Micro controllers I have a uno but don't know how to use it ...please make more bad ass stuff and more detailed tutorials
Its going to be easiest to just use the optical drives because if you bought small enough stepper motors you would have to figure out a good and sturdy way to created the x, y, and z axis, which would probably be very difficult but definitely possible.
Actually it uses the part of the drive that reads the CD. Here's a picture s.hswstatic.com/gif/cd-parts.jpg It's the part that says "Tracking motor" It holds the laser pickup assembly and laser lens. The lens moves back and forth and read this disk.
