Senior Design: Team 11.

Project Statement

Design and Control of 3-D Printer with Two Different Print Heads
Sponsor: MSU Technologies
3-D printers are typically constructed with one print head that deposits material (e.g. plastic) to form a 3-D part. Some potential applications of 3-D printing would like to combine two different materials in the same printed part, for example a metal inside of a plastic. A printer of this type would require a printer with two print heads (of different type) in the same 3-D printer. The objective of this project is to build a 3-D printer that includes two print heads. A control/software system would need to be developed that allowed two print heads to work together to fabricate one part with two different materials. It is envisioned that the starting point of this project is to buy a 3-D printer kit (components) and then build the printer. Next the software to run the 3-D printer with two print heads will need to be developed. Finally, the demonstration of printing a 3-D part using the two-headed 3-D printer will be done.