Print Cluster Specification
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Concept
A 3D printing cluster can be a lucrative, automated business opportunity to provide a Guaranteed Basic Income. The printing service is:
- Fully automated
- Web interface allows for print ordering, from a selection of proven offerings.
- People don't print their own designs - but they can rent print time by the hour from our cluster.
- Cluster operates on our own 3D printing filament (recycled, and 100% PV powered). Marketed as the world's first eco-3D-Printing service - which cleans up the environment by recycling plastic, and uses 100% solar energy.
- Harvesting robot harvests prints automatically
- Packaging robots packages things automatically.
- Carefully curated 3D print offering provides high quality parts.
Robotic Harvesting
Routes:
- Concept 1: OSE printer is modified so that the gantry is a bump-head to knock part off the platform automatically. Part drops into a container, ready for shipping. A grid of 12x12 3d printers with shipping baskets underneath. Shipping baskets move automatically, and a printed label is added.
- Concept 2: object recognition robot picks up parts. Parts are designed for robotic handling. Robot puts objects in the correct boxes. Robot knows which products go where.
Robotic Packaging
- prints are placed inside universal size baskets, and closed off.
- Label is placed automatically on the package.
- Boxes are lined up, ready to be taken to the post office
- Mailman picks up packages daily - so no trip to the post office needs to be taken.
Construction Set Approach
- Packaging and labeling is part of a universal system relevant to any product - such as machined parts, electronics, etc.
Research
What are other common 3D printing services, and what features do they have? Which features are desirable for OSE to meet OSE Specifications?