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Allen, John C. Solar-powered 3D sand-printer. Solar Sinter melts sand into 3D-printed glass. Markus Kayser, an MA student at the Royal College of Art, has built a 3D printing device that concentrates the Sun's rays through a glass ball lens to such an intensity that it forms a beam that can heat silica sand to melting point.
His Solar Sinter was born after initial experiments which creating a Sun-powered laser cutter using similar technology. He took the device to the Egyptian desert in a suitcase and used the concentrated rays to cut 2D components using a cam-guided system. According to Kayer's website: "The Sun-Cutter produced components in thin plywood with an aesthetic quality that was a curious hybrid of machine-made and "nature craft" due to the crudeness of its mechanism and cutting beam optics, alongside variations in solar intensity due to weather fluctuations.
" Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser. Solar-Sintern: Mit der Sonne in 3D drucken. Sintern heißt die Technik, mit der aus Sand oder Pulver durch Erhitzung Gegenstände erstellt werden.
Meist wird dazu ein Laser oder eine ähnlich starke Energiequelle eingesetzt. Markus Kayser setzt auf die Kraft der Sonne. Im ägyptischen Teil der Sahara probierte er seinen Solarofen aus. Die gesamte Konstruktion ist drehbar gelagert, um die Linsen auf die Sonne auszurichten. Die Nachverfolgung geschieht automatisch mit Hilfe eines Sensors und eines Motors, der die Plattform dreht. Den notwendigen Betriebsstrom für den elektrischen und elektronischen Teil seines Solarschmelzofens gewinnt Kayser mit Hilfe von zwei Photovoltaikmodulen.
Nun wird schichtweise der Sand an den Stellen geschmolzen, an denen später die 3D-Figur entstehen soll. Einfache Gegenstände wie eine Schale, aber auch eine komplexe Skulptur waren das Ergebnis der Solar-Sinter-Anlage mit 3D-Drucker. Sun, sand & desert manufacturing. At the Royal College of Art Degree Show this year, one of the most talked about pieces of work was Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter project.
His idea of ‘desert manufacturing’, uses the sun and sand as a raw energy source and material, combined with a 3D printing process to create glass objects. This fascinating experiment highlights the ways we could, in the future, use natural resources more effectively by uniting them with advanced production technology.
We talk to Markus about his sci-fi-looking invention to find out the difficulties he faced working in the desert and how he plans to develop on this project. 'Solar Sinter' by Markus Kayser is a solar powered 3D printer that uses sand as source material #3dprinting #environment #energy #rca. Amongst the wonderful collection of work currently on show at the Royal College of Art, in the corner on the first floor sits an installation/object by Markus Kayser called Solar Sinter.
An MA Design Products student project, Solar Sinter is probably one of the most inspiring projects this year, aiming to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and triggers dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun. In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.
The Solar-Sinster uses ReplicatorG software, an open source 3D printing program. Project Page. The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser. Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert.
Called The Solar Sinter, the device uses a large Fresnel lens to focus a beam of sunlight, creating temperatures between 1400 and 1600 degrees Celsius. This is hot enough to melt silica sand and build up glass shapes, layer by layer, inside a box of sand mounted under the lens. Solar-powered motors move the box on an x and y axis along a computer-controlled path and a new layer of sand is sprinkled on top after each pass of the light beam. Light sensors track the sun as it moves across the sky and the whole machine rotates on its base to ensure the lens is always producing the optimum level of heat. Once all the layers have been melted into place the piece is allowed to cool and dug out from the sand box. Kayser developed the project while studying on the MA Design Products course at the Royal College of Art. See all our stories about Show RCA 2011 »