3D Printing Guinness World Record Try by LeTourneau University

[Brian_Krassenstein]

On April 4th, LeTourneau University will try and set a new Guinness World Record for having the most 3d printers printing out the same object, all at the same time. 50 Printers total will be printing a commemorative coin.

http://3dprint.com/1902/letourneau-u...-world-record/

The University which requires all incoming freshman students to build their own 3D printer can accomplish this record because of that rule. The event is open to the public, and will start at 3PM in the Solheim Arena of the Solheim Recreation Center.

[jebba]

Sorry but, Aleph Objects, Inc. (makers of LulzBot 3D printers) breaks this record nearly every day. We have 135 printers....


-Jeff Moe


CEO Aleph Objects, Inc.

[Geoff]

Sorry but, Aleph Objects, Inc. (makers of LulzBot 3D printers) breaks this record nearly every day. We have 135 printers....


-Jeff Moe


CEO Aleph Objects, Inc.

You should call Guiness then, otherwise these guys will take your title.

[jebba]

You should call Guiness then, otherwise these guys will take your title.

Agreed. For starters, we're going to upload a youtube video of our present cluster running. We have some of our previous iterations there. When done (which should be by sometime tomorrow), it will land here:


https://www.youtube.com/user/LulzBotVideo/videos


Thanks,


-Jeff

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Hey Jeff, got your email. Been so busy here in New York at the convention that's going on. I would recommend you try and get in contact with Guinness on this. See what they say to do. Oftentimes they make new categories, and this may be the case. For instance someone just applies for a category and Guinness then creates it and allows them to be the first. You can quickly steal the title from them I assume

[jebba]

Hey Jeff, got your email. Been so busy here in New York at the convention that's going on. I would recommend you try and get in contact with Guinness on this. See what they say to do. Oftentimes they make new categories, and this may be the case. For instance someone just applies for a category and Guinness then creates it and allows them to be the first. You can quickly steal the title from them I assume

We have a booth at the convention! Stop by.


Ya, we went to the Guiness site and they have a special form for businesses setting a record. We'll work through that process and see what the deal is.We should have the video up in a few hours. We shot it yesterday, the video editor is just putting a counter on it right now.


Thanks,


-Jeff

[jebba]

Here is a recording of our 3D printer cluster running 109 machines:



109 LulzBots


If you know of anyone that has done more, let us know!



Happy hacking,



-Jeff

[Geoff]

Are they all printing the same thing though? I imagine the record is based on all of them producing an identical item, and then counting the results and seeing how many prints succeeded at the end, otherwise it is no real challenge or record to simply turn on all your machines at once.

[jebba]

Are they all printing the same thing though? I imagine the record is based on all of them producing an identical item, and then counting the results and seeing how many prints succeeded at the end, otherwise it is no real challenge or record to simply turn on all your machines at once.

They are not all printing the same thing. I don't think the record really matters whether it is the same thing or not. If it matters, we can easily do the same thing though, we just load the same file on every printer. In the video we are printing RepRap parts for our next generation TAZ. We've printed hundreds of thousands of parts. Printing some medallions simultaneously won't be hard--in fact, it will be easier.If you really want to see the nitty gritty of what we are printing, we have a LibreOffice spreadsheet of our current production batch here:
LulzBot TAZ Part Production
Thanks,
-Jeff

[Geoff]

They are not all printing the same thing. I don't think the record really matters whether it is the same thing or not. If it matters, we can easily do the same thing though, we just load the same file on every printer. In the video we are printing RepRap parts for our next generation TAZ. We've printed hundreds of thousands of parts. Printing some medallions simultaneously won't be hard--in fact, it will be easier.If you really want to see the nitty gritty of what we are printing, we have a LibreOffice spreadsheet of our current production batch here:
LulzBot TAZ Part Production
Thanks,
-Jeff

Fair enough, I havent actually checked up on the Guinness rules for such a thing, I suppose I was just saying it's not as impressive as them producing the same item, as all that is required to beat your record is simply plug in 1 more machine and run it (if they had as many as you guys do)

I'll keep looking out for the record for most printers printing an identical item, because unless each one comes out at a reasonable quality, what's the point of the record? Awesome you guys have so many printers, I mean who wouldn't kill for a line-up like that, but simply having them all running at the same time doesn't seem all that difficult, especially if they are printing different parts. Am I making sense? It's sort of like turning on 200 bubblejet printers and having them all print out a different image...

perhaps I need another coffee...