KS Project Update #28: Hardware Developments #4 and More!

Project Update #28: Hardware Developments #4 and More! Posted by Rinnovated Design ♥ Like

Hey Backers! Today we’d like to share with you some of the improvements that we’ve made for PP29. It Ships Light and Smaller We’ve greatly decreased the weight and size of the package making it much easier to get the Peachy Printer all around the world. It Assembles Faster With the implementation of PP29 we were able to delete 2 entire sections from the instructions, as well as many individual steps. This makes the assembly process overall faster and easier than PP28. It Snap-fits Tighter Due to the variance in thickness between our sheets of ABS we were having issues with making consistently tight snap-fitting printers. Sometimes we’d cut from a sheet that was slightly thinner, and none of the snap-fit joints would hold tightly, making for a loose and wiggly printer assembly. That was no good! https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/pr...JPG?1399868656Erik was able to come up with a solution by making a small change to the design of the snap-fit slots The ABS Parts Now Come on a Single Plate This was an important part of reducing our shipping weight and size and also brings other benefits: - It’s far more organized compared to our previous method (bags of parts) - We only send about 3 grams of excess plastic! That means nearly all of the unused plastic can be recycled here at Peachy. - The organized parts are harder to lose during both the shipping and building processes. - Edge sharing has reduced the time required to cut these parts on the laser cutter. https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/pr...JPG?1399868806 The Drip Feed has Been Simplified We’ve reworked the design of the drip feed to eliminate parts and steps during the assembly process. It’s now a simpler system that’s easier and quicker to assemble. The old drip feed used clamp rings to connect the microphone wire leads to the aluminum tubing in the dripper. We were able to eliminate that process by inserting the wire leads directly into the neon hose before slipping it onto the aluminum tube! A New and Improved Valve We’ve replaced the clamp ring valve system with a new and simple valve that is laser cut out of ABS along with many of the other printer parts. Some of the benefits are: - It utilizes lever action to provide finer adjustment to the drip speed - It’s more lightweight and cost effective - It doesn’t wear through the neon tubing like the previous valve - It’s more resistant to corrosion - It’s easily modifiable as we produce it on our laser cutter https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/pr...jpg?1399868984 In addition to all of these changes we’ve had many improvements to the instructions themselves thanks to our 1st tier Beta Testers. A few of the 2nd tier Beta’s have received their printers and some have even assembled them already! And finally, we’ve got a new video to show you! This one was made by one of our Beta Testers - it’s a great assembly tutorial video for PP29! Check it out below: http://youtu.be/doLLWicksvIIn other news... Rylan has recently spoken at TEDxNickelCity and Digifest! We can’t wait to share the footage of his presentations with you, and will do so as soon as it’s up. In the meantime here’s a quick Digifest advertisement featuring Rylan, Massimo Banzi (Arduino Co-founder) and a nice close up shot of the latest Arduino Certified board - The Intel Galileo: http://youtu.be/QlFk0LeAwNoWe’d like to thank everyone at TEDxNickelCity, Digifest, Intel, and all the other event sponsors for giving us the opportunity to be a part of such amazing events. The experience has been extremely valuable! Well that’s all from us today, keep your eyes open for more coming soon! Thanks, The Peachy Printer Team.

As mentioned in the other thread, the blank plates for the "box" seem gone, though that part probably won't be missed. I noticed from the video the difference in how the mirror's magnets and the coil are attached, and that the coil isn't just a raw brid's nest of wire anymore. Other than that, it pretty much looks like the P28. Though I guess this means the coil-side magnet on the mirror assemblies isn't adjustable anymore, since it has the coil glued to it.

Though I guess the strength of fit isn't really something that can be conveyed in the construction video.

he box being removed is fine however, I would like to see an enclosure for the printer to help keep dust and that off the mirrors to help reduce maintenance .

Feign - It was the same in PP28. But the bottom one gives it a huge range of adjustment. I think you can flip the acetate arrow all the way around with the bottom magnet tube.