User:Lex Berezhny/Microfactory

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

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2FuvKTyRMQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2RYYBRFu1A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZo5o1Y0h9o

make wire out of ingots

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owcnaC2ldsg

circuit "printer"

• 3d print board with groves for wire and components
• place aluminum wire into grooves: http://reprap.org/wiki/SpoolHead
• apply solder paste
• pick'n'place components
• melt solder in oven

aluminum extruder

• heat billets to 900F
• push through die
• cool consistently
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75IQksBb0M
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8BWQBP4Vhk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch1zEPDcg7E
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG3Ls7jrr2o&t=5m53s

other links

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