no code implementations • 1 Dec 2020 • Aliaksei L. Petsiuk, Joshua M. Pearce
To overcome the challenge of upcycling plastic waste into 3-D printing filament in the distributed recycling and additive manufacturing systems, this study designs, builds, tests and validates an open source 3-D filament diameter sensor for recycling and winding machines.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2020 • Aliaksei L. Petsiuk, Joshua M. Pearce
The paper describes an open source computer vision-based hardware structure and software algorithm, which analyzes layer-wise the 3-D printing processes, tracks printing errors, and generates appropriate printer actions to improve reliability.