This AI craze has gone too far. Please don’t actually produce random AI generated product ideas.
Must be horrible to get the print bed leveled.
Crank up that in-floor-heating! The printer’s running!
The worst
of both worlds, good luck getting a decent print on something moving and good luck vacuuming anything with a giant thing on top of it.3d printer ever. It would be lucky just to not to get caught on anything, never mind printing on uneven surfaces is just asking for a misprint.…no.
So many questions…
Does it use some high-distance sensor fusion, it only prints things smaller than those builtin rails, or it just assumes wheels never lose traction and fails on every print?
How is the adherence of a random household floor? Does it require some kind of wax or it fails on every print?
Again, how is the adherence of a random household floor? Can objects be removed after printing? Because if you expect models to be correct on the first try, you’ll fail on every print.
I’m sure I can fix a “why?” somewhere among the questions, but the “how?” is so interesting it would only waste space.
Room-scale DnD dungeons anyone?
And it’ll only take 3-4 months to print it!..oh, and you can’t really use your home while it prints because of noise and VOCs.
But why?
It’s a step in a new direction, a proof of concept. Maybe in the future something similar could be useful for road work or on mars or idk. No innovation & development without experimenting. You have to start somewhere and with stuff that is available.
And even if nothing comes of it, I bet it was a fun project to work on.
It could lead to a room size print bed, as in i wonder what the largest object it can currently make is.
Would also be neat if it could scan objects in the room as well, a lot more print in place capabilities with an idea like that.
Seems novel, but I agree with you, seems like it could lead to further neat innovation. Though it is pretty wild they chose a vacuum bot lol.
Though it is pretty wild they chose a vacuum bot lol.
In engineering school we created a robot that does specific tasks for a contest. It was a lot of work, but that was the main goal. Using an existing device that already has a LIDAR (and probably SLAM) sounds like a very smart move to me, for a project where you want to focus on other problems that have no existing solution yet.