CNC Gantry Painter Build Pics - Night 2

[vacpress]

Heres the shuttle i built tonite. It has 8 rollerblade bearings. they are on 1/4" threaded rod, which allows for a bit of adjustment if you dont mind ocasionally having to retighten the things.

[vacpress]

Sprayer mockup

[vacpress]

The shuttles bottom

[vacpress]

taped togeter prebuild

[tekno]

Very cool... I was wondering if you could use a print head from an HP color printer. Something like that.. Just an idea... I dont think an injector will work as the one I have seen have more then one hole in them.. Also most injectors on have 14 lb of fuel pressure on them.. There in a regulator that takes the 70-120 lb of fuel down.. the high pressure is so that there will always be more fuel then needed. That’s why there is a return line to the gas tank.

[peterklos]

Hi all

has anyone progressed withthe development of the sofware to drive the cnc painter?

regards peter

[vacpress]

peter,

sort of. there was considerable work put into a perl script that would use the GD graphics library and 'vectorize' raster artwork. The script then advanced a set number of steps and places another row of 'pixels', then does it again on the next row. This is like a dot matrix printer, only on a extremely different scale.

recently i have been working on an HPGL driver for it, so it would just use any vector-art program.. however, in general, this project is stalled out..

why do you ask?

[kram242]

Any more on the progress here??