Resin enhancement

[amirjabri]

Wow this sounds awesome! The original Kickstarter video made the Peachy Printer sound too good to be true, and yet it keeps getting better! Dirt cheap printer plus dirt cheap resin is really exciting. And if you don't like a print you can just eat it haha. Best of luck!

Also with regards to the flaxseed oil needing oxygen, would it be possible for the flaxseed oil to get oxygen through a liquid rather than the air? I ask because if the flaxseed oil was sandwiched between two liquids it wouldn't have any surface ripples. Either way though this sounds great!

Well you would need then to make an epoxy from the flax first using a catalyst and add a photocatalyst to make a resin for peachy printer, and it wouldn't need any air to cure because it is already an epoxy. I was also interested in if you could just use a virgin flax oil which would eliminate one step.

[jstrack2]

Oh okay thanks I understand now.

[rylangrayston]

Well you just let me know how I can help you amirjabri
Have you talked to Josh Elis from maker Juice yet?

[amirjabri]

Well you just let me know how I can help you amirjabri
Have you talked to Josh Elis from maker Juice yet?

I actually haven't yet, It would be really cool to link up with more interested people and sort of form a club to motivate this type of research. There is so much ground to cover, but alot of amazing polymer research has been published in scientific journals which is amazing resource of information! I'm saving all the useful articles I find, and writing down the results of all the experiments I'm doing in case I find a good system.

[Morten]

I'm new to this stuff, but good with tehcnology in general and happy to help with (and be a part of) such a group

[amirjabri]

I'm new to this stuff, but good with tehcnology in general and happy to help with (and be a part of) such a group

Great well we can always just post to the peachy printer forum and make a disclaimer *resin research project* just so people who don't care about it won't get turned off by chemistry jargon! I'll check but I think there are scattered posts on online forums for resin formulation for 3d printing all over the internet, just not in one place. I'll add to a google drive folder all the publications I find that are useful so that anyone can access it, I'm lucky I get access to tons of journals through the university by just going to their library!

Like I said there is so much already known and freely useable (openly published and expired patents) that we have alot of amazing resins to choose from and use! I'm partial to epoxies because that's one great way to make use of natural resins. There is acrylates too which is used a ton and work amazing! Also styrenes etc. can be used but I'm not sure as of yet how great the strength is compared to epoxies and acrylates. I was looking into Tung oil as well, but it has toxicity untill it fully cures so for children it's probably not really that useful.

[Morten]

Great! The RRP is born

Coming from a techie-background I'm quite blank on the chemistry of resins, altho I'm reading up on it in an attempt to assuage the pain of waiting for my own Peachy. I believe a locally-sourced, cheap biodegradable resin recipe with good instructions (and a video walk-through) would be a major boon to the project. Hemp is an especially interesting material, but not easily sourced in many countries like here in Norway, where cannabis is illegal and this affects hemp as well. Yes, our politicians are idiots.

Hook me up to the Google Drive folder @ morteng@gmail.com

[Dr LeClair]

I actually haven't yet, It would be really cool to link up with more interested people and sort of form a club to motivate this type of research. There is so much ground to cover, but alot of amazing polymer research has been published in scientific journals which is amazing resource of information! I'm saving all the useful articles I find, and writing down the results of all the experiments I'm doing in case I find a good system.

I'd be interested in joining in the experimentation process. We have a Makerspace here full of guys interested in developing this tech. We are RiverCityLabs (.org) in Peoria IL. Where are you guys in the research tree and what can we do to help? For reference, our makerspace is more commonly populated with physicians, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, computer scientists, artists, and a few students. So we literally can hit any side you guys may want us to work on!

Oh, I'm the President and co-founder of this non-profit makerspace (which is the only reason I'd ever speak on their behalf).