Well…custom 3D printers…is this something else? Haven’t we covered it in the other sections?
Actually not! custom 3D printers are considered “original designs” that someone is using to create a 3D printer. Of course everyone is inspired by some other design or the design principle, or the functional principle of another 3D printer.
Creating a custom printer usually comes after you have assembled a kit and the you have implemented some other person’s design. Well, to always. In my case I was naive enough to think that I could do it right after I assembled my first 3D printer. I was inspired by the Mendel printer design but I wanted to create a huge build plate printer.
You understand that this actually put me into trouble, investing allot of effort and time to learn and be trained into both mechanical tasks and also computer science tasks (firmware configuration, etc.). The computer science tasks were the easy ones mainly because I am a computer scientist and a programmer. The mechanical engineering issues were more troublesome for me but after allot of trial and error I’m prior to have crated my own huge bed size 3D printer that is working flawlessly for more than two years now.
If I have made it, you can make it, get crazy, try, make errors, get disappointment, try again, spent your time reading, creating, fine tuning, at the end you will have a hell of a journey to remember.
Currently this is the printer design by myself: