Colorful Marvin is awesome

reprapme · 2015-03-02T15:27:59.000Z

We are currently working on a new type of nozzle that will make it easy to print in 3 colors and what better test object is there then the Marvin

We are still in the development phase and there is still some way to go with software and firmware but the hardware works.

We hope you will like it

Alex3DHubs · 2015-03-03T18:35:46.000Z

This is awesome! Do you have any more info on the nozzle you are using? Sounds like a cool project.

reprapme · 2015-03-04T06:53:50.000Z

We will provide more info on the new nozzle soon.

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MaxSF · 2015-03-04T18:39:47.000Z

If this is truly printed at once, it looks very promising and sounds like a huge improvement !!

Would your nozzle be designed to be mounted on “any” printer or is it targeted to work with a specific one ?

MaxSF · 2015-03-04T18:42:24.000Z

Just seen the video … Pretty impressive stuff going on there !! Keep up the great work ! Have you tried yet with different materials ?

reprapme · 2015-03-04T21:14:54.000Z

Yes it is designed to be mounted on any 1.75mm filament printer, depending on the size of the printer of course.

The printer electronics must be able to handle 3 extruders.

We use the RUMBA board in our development.

There will be a basic mechanical mounting fixture on the hotend/nozzle and then it’ll be up to people them selfe to make the proper mounting bracket/adapter to their individual printer.

But we do hope that people are willing to shear their mounting bracket/adapter STL files in order to make it easier for others.

We are planning on doing a Kickstarter campaign in the next months in order to put it into production, so keep an eye out for that

reprapme · 2015-03-04T21:25:57.000Z

Thank you

We are mainly concentrating on getting the software and the right settings to work before we move to different materials.

But we have tried PLA, ABS and HIPS with no problem and we don’t see why it shouldn’t work with the other commonly used filaments as it is a all metal hotend.

reprapme · 2015-03-04T21:41:35.000Z

Thanks

Well it’s a nozzle of our own design that is able to be feed with 3 X 1.75mm filament at the same time.

It’s all metal so it can take high temp. filaments.

Our current design uses bowden tube in order to keep the weight down on the printhead but we do have plans for a direct drive version.

We are working on a probber datasheet/info later but for now please let me know if there is anything specific you would like to know?

Filemon · 2015-03-05T18:00:19.000Z

WOW! Pretty sick

Dane · 2015-03-15T10:40:11.000Z

I have a question. First off, will this be released as open-source as all E3D’s products are? Secondly, have you guys tested this with different materials? For example, two materials that use roughly the same temperature. For example, ABS and Nylon or another combination like that?

Cool stuff!

Regards,

Dane

reprapme · 2015-03-16T08:10:25.000Z

Yes, we intent to release it as open source when we have the final product ready.

At the moment we have printed succesfully with PLA, HIPS, and ABS, and we will soon try out more type of filaments

Dane · 2015-03-16T08:15:56.000Z

Have you printed those filaments at the same time though? Like switching between the materials?

reprapme · 2015-03-16T17:12:07.000Z

We haven’t tried it yet, but we are fairly confident that it should be possible with materials in the same temperature ranges.

reprapme · 2015-04-02T11:23:41.000Z

It finally happened!! Our very first try at crowdfunding

We are now active with our Diamond Hotend on Kickstarter:
The Diamond Hotend - Single nozzle multi-color 3D printing by RepRap.me — Kickstarter

The Diamond Hotend is a single nozzle multi color/material hotend for 3D printers that gives you high precision multi color/material prints with a minimum of material waste and calibration.

We hope that you will like our Diamond Hotend and will help us spread the word so that we can make this product happen.