Mowi printer

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Mowi Printer Documentation
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Mowi Printer

Release status: Working

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Description
The Mowiprinter is a foldable 3d printer with dualextrusion and a building volume of 260 x 200 x 195mm.
License
GPLv3
Author
Contributors
Based-on
Categories
Foldable RepRap, Development
CAD Models
External Link


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video on youtube: pdC9KxD-kWQ (sorry links are blocked)

Introduction

The Mowi Printer is a foldable 3d printer, folded flat it is small, but opened up it can print big and with two materials. It also has a display for standalone printing. The Mowi printer is still under development so expect the files to change.

Current version Mowi v3 has a more sturdy Y-frame, the possibility to fixate the Y-frame to the Z-frame, a Graphic display, a smaller power supply, a wooden extruder , and a Z probe for auto bed leveling. It prints reliable with pla and abs. At the moment I am working on version 4, this version should be able to also print with pva and flexible filaments. I am looking into using mk8 hotends. These would also give the ability to swap the nozzle and they are cheaper and easier to source.

At the moment there is no build manual yet. I hope there is enough information to get you started on building your own Mowi printer. In the Step Assembly on Github you can see how everything fits together. Let me know when you start building so we can work on the documentation together. You can post any issues on the github. All help in improving the design and/or the documentation is very very welcome. Also the pictures and video are still from the version 1. I will try to update them soon.

Specifications

  • Printing Size: 260mm x 200mm x 195mm
  • Folded size: 400mm x 330mm x 86mm
  • Printed Parts: 5 essential + 9 optional
  • Lasercut parts: 29 essential + 6 optional
  • Bought Parts: ???
  • Filament Size: 1.75mm
  • Electronics: RAMPS 1.4
  • Firmware: Marlin

Main Open Issues

  • Doesn't print with flexibele materials and pva yet. The filament buckles before the hotend.

Bill of Materials

Printed Parts, essential for printing:

  • extruder idler 2pcs
  • x carriage
  • x idler
  • x motor mount
  • y belt clamp

Printed Parts, optional:

  • hinge left
  • hinge right
  • knob
  • fanduct
  • nutlocker straight
  • nutlocker corner 2 pieces
  • spoolholder
  • spoolholderp2p

Lasercut Parts, essential for printing:

  • YBottomFront
  • YBottomMiddle
  • YBottomBack
  • YFront
  • YBack
  • YRightBack
  • YRightFront
  • YCross
  • YLeft
  • Yidler
  • bed
  • ZBottom
  • ZBack
  • ZSide 2pieces
  • ZFrontLeft
  • ZFrontRight
  • ZTop
  • ZBarHolderLeft
  • ZBarHolderRight
  • extrudermiddle
  • extruderstepperholder left
  • extruderstepperholder
  • hotendholder 2pieces
  • extruderadjuster
  • extruderlocker
  • Xendstop

Lasercut Parts, optional:

  • hendel 2 pieces
  • display Bottom
  • display casing
  • display casing R
  • display wrap

Lasercut Materials:

  • birch plywood, about 0,6m<math>^2</math> 5.8mm thick,
  • birch plywood, 145mm * 105 mm, 3mm thick
  • cardboard for electronics cover

Bought Parts (I tried to use mostly (industry) standard parts so most parts can be bought at a lot of suppliers, the links are only an example)


For aliexpress links, substitute the xx in the link for ss, unfortunately Aliexpress links are blocked on reprap.org due to spam)

Inspiration

The Design of the Mowi printer is based on the work of many other 3d printer designers, thanks a lot!!! Its inspired by Prusa i3, Ultimaker, FoldaRap, Cartesio, by flow and many many others.

Pictures

the pictures and video are still from the previous version. I will try to update them soon.