User:Lex Berezhny/Microfactory

Basics

• Microfactory is a set of tools and machines that can be reasonably acquired or built from abundant materials with the goal of enabling humanity to transcend scarcity and poverty.

• A factory has inputs and outputs.

Aluminum forge to melt aluminum cans and other scrap

Most Basic Gas Burner One

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2FuvKTyRMQ

Large Gas Burner Powered One

• The King of Random's "Trash Can Foundry" Overview
• The King of Random's "Trash Can Foundry" How to Build

Small Electric Arc Furnace

• The King of Random's Diy Electric Arc Furnace Overview
• The King of Random's Diy Electric Arc Furnace Hot to Build

Make wire out of ingots

• [1]

Circuit "printer"

• 3d print board with groves for wire and components
• place aluminum wire into grooves: [2]
• apply solder paste
• pick'n'place components
• melt solder in oven

aluminum extruder

• heat billets to 900F
• push through die
• cool consistently
• [3]
• [4]
• [5]
• [6]

See Also

• Open Source Digital Fabrication Construction Set

Useful Links

• http://www.metalbot.org/
• http://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_metal_3-D_printer