Yes a syringe i was thinking something along those lines as well.
I was thinking maybe if we had a hopper system that would liquify the wax and then pressurize the chamber it could be possibly done in a controlled fashion, but man that is tough.
Next time I visit the foundry I am going to ask to see the new wax printer they got to see how it works!
Couldn’t the feed hopper be pretty much the same as a plastic injector for injection molding? But instead of a handle to pull for injecting, you would just use a stepper motor?
The Zmorph, the only other larger print bed 3dp/CNC/Laser-Combo device on the market, sells a syringe print head:
I guess the three big improvements over this I would want to see from a similar module in Snapmaker would be:
Yeah but… that thing (the VX which is the 3-in-1) is like triple the price of an A250, and it’s work area doesn’t come close to the A350. With only a 1 year warranty(2 years if you pay an extra $700 WTF) I would NEVER buy something with that price tag.
if you need sound consider an ocotopi an something like this MoonshineSG/OctoPrint-Sound: Play sounds on RaspberryPi on M300 (github.com)
how far is the development of snap-star?
like to build up a glue dispenser unit with a separate dispenser system. need to have a snapmaker start/stop signal for this unit
@peewee no idea, Snapmaker shutdown the roadmap, not like they kept it updated to begin with anyway so…