Fjodor
Foreword:
Time to start writing down some of my ideas. Just me in this project. My project started out, after spending my life as a wannabe inventor, as a waking-dream of creating a machine which would enable me to create any-and-all invention I could possibly dream of, and thus making humanity depend on themselves, and science for entertainment and excitement, as opposed to commercialism which we do today. I dislike shopping malls. The project will entail, if possible, an Android capable of constructing objects out of most of the materials found in mass production today, making shops obsolete, except food. This is a huge goal! Too big in fact, but I aim high so I do not run the risk of not exploiting my full potential, and I recommend others to follow my lead on this. Just look at Adrian Bowyer, now the founder of this great community! Dream big, make it big!
Outline of project:
MAGDA is the name I have given my machine. It is a girls name, and she will look like one. With lasers in her boobs! Awesome. When you see it, you'll shit bricks. MAGDA is an abbreviation for Metal And Granule Deposition Android. She will (hopefully) be able to create carbon fiber, fiberglass, aluminium, organic plastic and high temperature plastic in various colors with the help of her hands. With them she will weave fibers of either material in a construction ideal to the purpose suited to the component. Body of machine will look humanoid. I have a lot of sketches, drawings, parts and outlines for MAGDA laying around, but I do not have a scanner for 2D drawings, so I will wait with adding this until I have more completed designs or parts of her ready.
Characteristics of printing modules:
Her hands will have the following characteristics:
Right hand thumb: Accurate laser distance reading module)
Right hand point finger: blue plastic (undetermined type)
Right hand middle finger: red plastic (undetermined type)
Right hand ring finger: yellow plastic (undetermined type)
Right hand pinky finger: Aluminium/tin deposition
Left hand thumb: Accurate laser positioning module
Left hand point finger: Carbon fiber
Left hand middle finger:Carbon fiber
Left hand ring finger: Fiberglass
Left hand pinky finger:Fiberglass
All fingers are meant to be able to grip objects in addition to their various extruding capabilities.
Left breast: Camera for 3D model capture of objects
Right breast: Line laser module (on the way by Hong Kong Post(laser not breast)) for creating lines on objects for 3D capture.
Developing methods:
One of the ideas I am working with is a method of deposition which is by my knowledge new in the 3D printing industry/open-source community; Common Rail Deposition. This is essentially a system of pipes which are pressurized with the material I want to deposit, and let out in accurately measured amounts by means of a solenoid valve or similar, through flexible couplings to reach her fingers.
Recycling:
I want MAGDA to be an example of recycling, so I would want to make her able to recycle at least all the materials she is able to print with. She is to be equipped with (if budget allows) systems able to churn up aluminum, tin, plastic, and preferably more materials for resale, and further systems in connection with these, or accessible through her hands to grip, lift and place.
Budget:
Currently studying, so I'm low on cash, but I am working every weekend to make this project possible, and hope to see it completed in less than 20 years. I will be completing an education which entitles me to use a nice title and get a high salary, and my project will accelerate as much as the time I can afford to put into it.
