Matt GrayIf we can have bean-to-cup coffee machines, surely that means we could have pellet-to-nozzle 3D printers?
(I’m joking please don’t explain 3D printers to me)
Space Hobo@mattgrayyes Now I want a beer-can-to-bicycle-frame machine.
Daniel Barlow@spacehobo @mattgrayyes I've used beer cans as seatpost shim material, does that count?
@dan @mattgrayyes I hope you sanded the edges!
Chloé Raccoon@mattgrayyes I want the chocolate flakes to fancy chocolate bar printer...
Salearlyman@mattgrayyes reconstitute the raw beans from any cup of coffee that didn't turn out quite as nice as you would have liked it (like 3d print recycling)
kuriko@mattgrayyes with the first paragraph i though this is going towards the “beans-to-heated-beanz-with-rich-tomato-sauce” direction
Princess Dalius@mattgrayyes that's injection molding
David@mattgrayyes I can feel there is a "we don't do this because it is easy, but because we thought it was easy" company forming to do this.
May Keable 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@mattgrayyes a 3D printer that prints filament then feed that filament back into it.
Like that art exhibit with the poor robot doomed to scoop it's own oil.
bo0tzz@Keab42 @mattgrayyes I need to go get my hands on a belt printer...
Mocelet@mattgrayyes In my experience, pellet to bin would be more useful! 😁
Bwelkington@mattgrayyes i read that as pellet-to-nose and was confused but entertained
Carlos Martín Nieto@mattgrayyes there are some experiments, but the question is whether you prefer a light or dark roast on your pellets
arjankroonen@mattgrayyes Still waiting for the Vote-to-Government process…
InsertUser@mattgrayyes Now I'm wondering if farmers have any seed handling machinery that would be able to reliably l deliver pellets down a tube to the heater block.
Nexus@mattgrayyes Saw a switch for "pellet extruder" in my printer firmware, and have been wanting nothing more than to find one of these mysteries. Where do they exist? who uses them? why?
Tufty Indigo 🪗@faeranne @mattgrayyes Industrial in order to reduce material cost. Nobody. Because pellets have gaps in between them, it's a lot harder to get consistent flow rate, which then gives you problems with temperature control and underextrusion. Think like having damp filament but 10x worse. The problems aren't fundamentally unsolvable but nobody has solved them well enough yet.
@tuftyindigo @mattgrayyes honest talk here, this was mostly a joke reply. I've spent the time to build a filament extruder back in 2018 with some friends, and know just how finicky they are. I think the only real question I had was "Where do they exist?" as this is 100% an option within the Klipper firmware, and given the only real place you see them is industrial, I just had to question who was actually using them enough to get that feature mainlined into Klipper.
@faeranne @mattgrayyes I would guess an experiment-minded hobbyist. It doesn't come up as much as home-made filament, but I've seen quite a few POC projects.
Paul Martin@[email protected] But... you don't make cups out of beans.
Zeebee@mattgrayyes is the reverse also true, that we should be able to extrude coffee into filament, and have spool-fed coffee machines?