D3D Toolheads
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Basics
- This page explores current, and future D3D Toolheads
Current
FDM 3D Printer Extruders
Pen Holder
Inkjet
- Would allow for high quality printing of images
- First build would most likely be a Frankensteinian Build, but perhaps later use an open source/custom inkjet
Lab Devices
Pick And Place
- Main use would be automated PCB assembly
- Could perhaps be used with faster + high quality d3ds for industrial use such as sorting etc
Soldering Iron
- Used for automated soldering of pcbs
Laser Diode
- Open Source Laser Diode Toolhead
- Used for cutting thin/weak materials, engraving, and even pcb masks for etching via ablating off the mask selectively
- Offer various diodes
- May neccesitate a sheild to make all users in the area not have to wear laser glasses/goggles
- Also can be a FIRE HAZARD (wood etc burning, smoke release)
Drag Knife
- Used for cutting materials without the burns of the laser
- Can work with paper and cardstock
- Could allow for use by scrapbookers etc as an alternative to a Cricket device
- Also works with thin flexable sheets such as vyn
- May also make a nice dedcated device (extra wide, low z axis, perhaps with a belt and/or paper feed/hold mechanism
Drill / Simple Spindle
- Used as a precise drill press or for pcb drilling (can it do milling, will it not have enough torque to go through materials without stopping, how does it compare to a cheap cnc spindle etc
Router
- Rotary Tool/Dremel Holder
- Small CNC Spindle Holder
Heavy Duty D3D Toolheads
- These are for the cnc table
- This can brantch into it's own page if need be
- Oxy-Fuel Torch
- Plasma Cutter
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