Bead Sprite Printer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- A few other things about this project…
I really liked seeing what people could make with Perler beads but I didn’t want to devote the hours it can take to make them. I thought I could make a robot that did it for me instead. I’m an engineer and wanted to do something that involved lots of mechanical, electrical, firmware and software engineering. Started planning and designing at the start of 2019, 9 months later and lots of iterating, I finally made something that was reliable and relatively fast.
Originally I was going to try to use this to get the world record for the biggest bead sprite, until I realized it was as big as a house. www.guinnesswo... . Now I plan to use this to make gifts for friends and family.
The machine was built around an old 3D printer I had that stopped working (RoStock Max V2). Motor controller was a RAMBO 1.2 running some Reprap firmware I modified with a bunch of extra commands. I added an extra Arduino to run certain tasks in parallel to make it go faster.
For the software, I created a python script that would take any image I found online and match each pixel to the closest color I had on the machine (64 colors). It would then create a gcode script that would have the image built layer by layer. These instructions can then be sent to the machine to print. The max size I can build is a 33x33 square. If it’s too big, the script breaks it up into different panels to be made separately.
I have another operation that fuses panels together and also does a second fusing operation to further melt the Perlers. It’s not shown in the video but it’s a similar heated bed that I put the bead sprite on, then put a bunch of heavy stuff on top of that to compress the beads, I found this is much quicker and more consistent than ironing
Anyone else find it cute the way the print carriage gently pushes the bead into place?
My guess is that dropping the bead in exactly from the top doesn't allow for any error (tipped beads) so they have to set the bead down and then adjust on the x-y plane to keep everything tight.
From a robotics point of view : Well done sir! From a bead sprite point of view : Hey that's pretty cool.
Me: "Haha, that's cool, but good luck getting it onto a peg board now for ironing!"
[heated bed]
Me "Well shit..."
my exact thoughts
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As someone who has struggled with the fusing aspect of this wonderful hobby...this is far beyond what I could ever dream of. Despite it not being the largest bead sprite, this is still worthy of a lot of praise.
Friend: Hey, so what'd you do this weekend?
Engineer: I made bead art
Friend: Cool! I love doing that, but I can never iron it perfectly. How do you do it?
Engineer: Heated bed
Friend: What?
Engineer: And a robot.
Well, I can see someone is going to flood the Etsy market with these things. :D
Id totally buy these
@@Zuluknob that's about the only thing Nintendo is good for now (as "glory days" starts playing on the speaker)
Do you have instructables, github, STL files or anything for this project? This is sweet.
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Ok, I'm genuinely impressed. I don't know what to say man, awesome work!
one of my favourite youtube videos, seriously! the only thing that's missing is step 0; colour sorting! Sorting the beads must be a pain right now.
Ok now those are just about the coolest things I've seen in a while. The beads give them that perfect pixelated look like they originally were. Great job, that must have taken a fair chunk of time to build and debug that printer.
This is an incredible invention. The work the coding all of it is so cool. Congratulations.
Impressive. I see you selling this to gift stores. It is an eye catcher and produces nice pieces.
I was working on a similar concept about 3 or so years ago. The agitator design is similar to what I was thinking but there were some things I drew out that I worked differently towards the plate. Once I move I still plan to try to build one but with a goal to make things fast using a different kind of sorter with beads that don't melt or are not affected by the heat plate so they will fluff the bottom of the building area and the beads will line up after.
I also see there are newer variations and will be watching!
The ONLY video that MATTERS to me.
Probably going to be the greatest thing I see today!! Amazing work!
Simply brilliant work!
Cool! You should look into laying out a hexagon pattern as well.
Absolutely brilliant dude. That's an amazing piece of Machinery you built there. Well done
This is awesome, great work! The end results are incredible.
This machine is like a work of art in itself.....wow.
This is so amazing! Man, I think you just made the next big thing in 3d printing!
Maybe stack the layers and create some sort of rod system that keys down and heats up to bond 2 layers at a time?
I feel like your printer could benefit from a simple change in the bead storage, making it less dificult for the agitator: have the bead storage be funnel shaped, you could just print/make small angled bottoms for the bead containers and push them in after emptying the containers, shouldn't be that much work and it makes sure you can use every single bead in the container and also means you don't have to fill it constantly because the beads on the side don't fall into the hole
This is completely ridiculous and amazing at the same time
Wow, looks like a lot of work. I'd love to have one of these things.
That's wild, have you tried making 3D objects with this? Like if you layed one layer, had the robot iron it, then started placing ontop, couldn't you have 3D objects?
How would the layers fuse then
@@jova7031 Good question, I figure if you heat either long or hot enough the ironing of the second layer would heat the bottom of the second layer and the hot of the first layer enough for them to make a connection.
@@jova7031 There may be some way to automate it but perhaps you could use some sort of spray adhesive. You could manually give it a quick spray between layers assuming you're nearby. A guy with this level of invention could probably automate the process though!
I love this.
Would you marry me? 😂👍🏻
Best thing if seen in a long time. Would buy some. U should get an investor and produce them as home printer. Stacking the layers to 3d objects would be nice.
Innovation is a WINNER ! Bravo !
Je ne m'attendais même pas à ça c'est un énorme boulot pour rien 😱 j'aurais crû que ça fondait le plastique pour l'imprimer mais non 😂😂
This is brilliant! 😮
Looks neat.
Wow!! So inspiring!! Keep going!
Nice work!
Well done man! This is pretty freaking AWSOME!
in this video youhave the most impresive CV presentation that a Young engineer could have, You will achieve very good and important things in this life!!! Go for the dreamed job (Nasa Esa or watever you like!!!)
What!?! Its genius, but never crossed my mind befor as a posibility. I like the Van Gogh at the ending. Show us som big grad pices like that one, please!
Bread sprite printer would have been cooler
Incredible!
This is genius... you know with a few tweeks you've just invented the worlds first FULL colour 3d printer!
They have mixer nozzles on 3D printers, I at first though he was doing this with the raw plastic pellets which are usually used to make filaments. So this wouldn’t be the first color printer, and it doesn’t smooth the colors which should be possible with the mixer nozzles for basically any color. Instead it’s a pretty awesome robot that reminded me I used to make some of those cup coasters and decorations with these, fun simple times!
I’m pretty sure his machine tweaked just a little would work great for 3d printing pellets and mixing them into a steady filament role of a typical 3d printed was used below it instead of his pick and place machine, wouldn’t be surprised if he does just that someday since he’s got like 90% of the parts right there and probably 100% of the talent needed.
This is actually incredible
Brilliant!
This fills my heart with joy. OOOOHHHH so satisfying
every time is see bead art i think of making a machine to do them and you sir just stole my idea right from my head haha, great work btw.
The awesomeness is strong with this one.
Sweet design. I had a similar idea but using a pick and place style design (the machine used for placing components on PCBs)
Really cool!
awesome job.
I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat.
Thats pretty awesome
Incredible!!!
Okay that's pretty fucking cool.
Never thought about anything such awesome.
Impressive!
Wow, so amazing! I want to try this project like you.
WOW!!! Awesome!!!
really cool! Thanks for sharing.
2D Printer Nice!
this is awesome
WTAF That is the dumbest stupidest most ridiculous absolutely freaking awesome cool pointless amazing wonderful thing I have seen in months. DUDE I want one ! :-) WTH and AWESOME combined always make for the coolest projects! SO freaking cool!
Fantastic! Well done!
This is awesome, great work!
Wow. Just wow.
Wow just wow. This is pretty amazing. Well done. A lot of thought and time went into this
Excellent work!
wow, really great engineering. Really awesome.
Super nice build! Have you put any thought in to printing photos? Should be mainly a software challange to adapt photos to the current bead colors?
Incredible
I also built one, a much simpler design using a CNC Openbuilds OX But this is pretty sweet too.
nice HardWare 👍👍👍👍👍👍
it would be awesome if you made a pre-step, where it sorted the beads for you from the buckets
This reminded me of something people make in Minecraft
That's brilliant. I would be intrested in a machine like this!
Awesome work!
VIVA LA RESOLUCIÓN!!!!
I love it, thanks for sharing!
I like the stary night ;) good job.
Welp. I want this.
Amazing sir
Awesome creation! Well done
Love it! Nice work
You should do a base for a snowboard.
good job man
This is awesome! I'd love to see more!
Great engineering man!!!🎉
Wow, that's really amazing. Well done!
awesome!
Amazing..!!👏👏👏
Now that's some awesome nerd shit right there!
8 Bit thumbs up!
It's not that this is so difficult to build as much as actually making it all work together. At least I imagine that's the case
You Sir or Madam are a Genius!
Amazing! :)
thats a cool machine 👍
Make a gigantic one and print banners that would look dope
verry cool!!
Now we need to use it to print out a full jpeg
Respect
Lol so awesome project 👏👏👏👌
Well done!
Dude this thing almost sounds like Willy Wonkas ever lasting gobstoper machine
That’s amazing
Why not go for the world record? Don't punk out now! Find a 20 Mega-pixel image and let's see what your nifty little robot can do! Do it in sections, you can parse it with photo editor. Setup a Kickstarter for funding, or hit up a bead manufacturer for some corporate support.