Delta Build Workshop
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Michigan Tech's Open Sustainability Technology Lab.
Wanted: Students to make a distributed future with solar-powered open-source 3-D printing and recycling. |
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| This page is part of an international project to use RepRap 3-D printing to make OSAT for sustainable development. Learn more.
Research: Open source 3-D printing of OSAT • RecycleBot • LCA of home recycling • Green Distributed Recycling • Ethical Filament • LCA of distributed manufacturing • RepRap LCA Energy and CO2 • Solar-powered RepRaps • solar powered recyclebot • Feasibility hub • Mechanical testing • RepRap printing protocol: MOST• Lessons learned • MOST RepRap Build • MOST Prusa Build • MOST HS RepRap build • RepRap Print Server Make me: Want to build a MOST RepRap? - Start here! • Delta Build Overview:MOST • Athena Build Overview • MOST metal 3-D printer • Humanitarian Crisis Response 3-D Printer |
Schedule of Events
At least two weeks prior to workshop
- Distribute introductory document
- Attendees are expected to make a best-effort at installing software
- Attendees should join the MOST Delta User's Group
Evening Prior
(Two hour duration) All attendees must bring their laptops to this introduction.
- Welcome and introductions
- Facilitators will check that all of the software outlined here is installed and working
- Facilitators will assure assembly wiki and videos are accessible by each attendee
- Attendees will assemble tools
Day One
(Expect eight hour minimum duration)
- 8:00 AM - Mark's introduction to 3-D printers in the classroom
- 8:30 AM - Introduction to workshop format and assembly
- 9:00 AM - Start assembly
- 12:00 PM - Break for lunch away from assembly area
- 12:30 PM - Resume assembly
- Teams who complete assembly early should help teams that are not complete
- Teams leave only upon demonstrating all mechanical assembly of the first printer is complete
Day Two
(Expect eight hour minimum duration)
- 8:00 AM - Start assembly
- 12:00 PM - Break for lunch away from assembly area
- 12:15 PM - First presentation
- 12:30 PM - Resume assembly
- 3:00 PM - Break for second presentation - all assembly come to a stop for presentation
- 3:15 PM - Resume assembly
- Teams who complete assembly early should help teams that are not complete
- Teams leave only upon demonstrating all mechanical assembly of the second printer is complete
- If all teams complete mechanical assembly early, upload firmware
Day Three
(Expect eight hour minimum duration)
- 8:00 AM - Upload firmware
- 10:00 AM - Initial power up of printer, start calibration
- 12:00 PM - Break for lunch away from assembly area
- 12:15 PM - Third presentation
- 12:30 PM - Introduction to online model repositories; how to download and print models
- 2:00 PM - Introduction to OpenSCAD
- 2:30 PM - Finalize calibration, build printing skills
Day Four
(Expect eight hour minimum duration)
- Individuals download a model from the internet and print it
- Individuals design, render and print an OpenSCAD model of their own
- Build printing skills
- What you can do with it: The Economics of Classroom 3-D Printing of Open-Source Digital Designs of Learning Aids
Navigation
| Tandem Build MOST Delta Navigation | |
| Green indicate workshop tasks | |
| Printer Primer | |
| Overview | |
| Soldering and tinning | |
| Assembling hot end | |
| Drilling Pilot Holes | |
| Person 1 | Person 2 |
|---|---|
| Tie Rods and Pulleys | Epoxying Magnets |
| Motor End Assembly | Idler End Assembly |
| Extruder Drive | Mount Bases |
| End Effector | Frame |
| Verticals | |
| Wiring | |
| Firmware | |
| Software | |
| Finishing | |
| Printing Basics | |