What a filament recycler is...

Mounting bracket

How the filament recycler works

Funnel

Drill bit

Funnel insulator

Heat chamber

Adapter 1

Adapter 2

Heat block

Nozzle

Mounting bracket

What our project is & who we intend our project to be used by...

How our filament recycler is different than others...

The Building Process

Precedents

Conceptual Precedent

Name: Greenboy 3D

Creator: Greenboy 3D

Technical Precedent

Name: ArtMe 3D

Creator: ArtMe 3D

Visual Precedent

Name: 2x4

Creator: Tree

Our original sketches

Lloyd

Ben

Dhruv

Prototype 01

Drill bit needs funnel to direct pellets.

Needs a way to spool filament.

Prototype 02

Funnel needs to be one piece to prevent leakage.

Need a cooling system.

Needs a new shaft coupler

The adapter is press fit, so it can come off and start leaking.

Attach motor to power supply instead of batteries.

Prototype 03

Power Switch

Power Supply for hot end and mainboard.

Main Board

Stepper motor driver for spooler.

Motor that spins drill bit.

Touch screen to control hot end.

Power supply for stepper motor & driver.

Fan attached to duct

Hot End

Funnel

Coupler

Drill Bit

Spooler

Prototype 01 (grinder)

Blender actually seems to work really well!

The process of making new filament

Person realizes they have a lot of plastic waste.

Plastic is ground.

Funnel is loaded up with ground filament

Filament starts to get extruded.

Filament starts to get spooled.

Person gets a usable roll of filament.

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Next, we want to focus on replacing all of the parts of the project with more widely available components.

We want to change and test some key variables on the filament recycler such as the temperature, the flow rate, heat chamber size, etc...

We wish to make a Git Hub repository and links to all of the CAD files and instructions to make the recycler easier to build and open source.

We want to develop a kit and get user feed back as well as continue testing and make changes.