Great project! It could be the bigger brother of the egg bot: https://egg-bot.com/
Bottle Plotter
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Re: Bottle Plotter
#12Hi All, author here. I'm little bit surprised to find my blog here. If you have any question feel free to ask!
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#13The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors. For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great. You print on plain paper (important: with a laser printer), cut to shape, dip in a shallow pan of milk, apply the paper to the bottle and ease out any wrinkles, then press gently o…
Interesting idea to use milk. Although I might be inclined to use heavily water diluted PVA.
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#14Hi All, author here. I'm little bit surprised to find my blog here. If you have any question feel free to ask!
Nice project! You state that your looking for someone to opensource it. Whats keeping you from just gitlab pushing your stuff? :) Would possibly be interested in recreating this.
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#15The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors. For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great. You print on plain paper (important: with a laser printer), cut to shape, dip in a shallow pan of milk, apply the paper to the bottle and ease out any wrinkles, then press gently o…
Interesting idea to use milk. Although I might be inclined to use heavily water diluted PVA.
My father have used PVA for homemade wine for decades. Works fine.
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#16"Again looking on the final machine everything looks as very obvious solution." It's probably only obvious after you done the other versions first. I know because I feel the same way about most of my projects. After enough of those things you get closer to a final in fewer iterations, but never have I done it on the first try for anything meant to last longer than the first use
There are existing similar-ish products, for doing things like engraving drinking glasses, lasering barcodes onto cylindrical products, customising travel coffee mugs and things like that. For cheap marking lasers this is called a 'laser engraving roller' and for big CNC mills it'll be called something like a '4th axis' or '5th axis'.
This is a super neat and cool project, but someone who knows a bit about CNC control - as the author surely does - will have sources of inspiration to draw upon, and won't have to solve every problem from scratch.
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#17We have one of those rotary jigs for our 60W Laser Cutter/Engraver. We tried to do basically the same by engraving glass bottle for a project.
Damn, the dialing-in process was... energetic.
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#18Hi All, author here. I'm little bit surprised to find my blog here. If you have any question feel free to ask!
Nice project! You state that your looking for someone to opensource it. Whats keeping you from just gitlab pushing your stuff? :) Would possibly be interested in recreating this.
Time, I would like to polish all the stuff a do it properly, but have not time for that. Also there are still some things TBD.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice project! You state that your looking for someone to opensource it. Whats keeping you from just gitlab pushing your stuff? :) Would possibly be interested in recreating this.
Time, I would like to polish all the stuff a do it properly, but have not time for that. Also there are still some things TBD.
Open source happens sometimes because people are willing to just git push things that are half finished or even garbage. You should not feel bad about doing it!
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#20There is existing hardware for this https://www.foxalien.com/en-de/products/foxalien-laser-rotar...