bencbartlett/3d-printed-mirror-array

3D-printable hexagonal mirror array capable of reflecting sunlight into arbitrary patterns

3d-printed-mirror-array's Issues

Congratulations!

I want to make the same one. But I don't know any expertise, how can I do?

Best Print Settings

Congratulations to you two! And your project inspired me to buy a 3D printer which I've been addicted to for weeks now.
I just finished setting up the heart STL as an initial test. My results were pretty inaccurate which I was anticipating because I had a 0.6mm nozzle and 0.4mm layer height, but it was still a 9 hour print with these settings. So I was wondering if you could share your most successful print settings for the rest of us?

For reference with others trying their own, 0.4mm layer height has noticeable edges up close, but passable results. I also had great bed adhesion, and can't see any warping with the naked eye so it could very well be my super gluing job.

🎉 Congratulations! 💍

I somehow had to convey my best wishes!

Question in the hollow base

Hello, Mr. Bartlett, I found a question when printing your model: When I printed the base below each hexagon column,i found it was particularly thin, almost hollow, and the model will become particularly fragile. How can I change it into solid?

Not getting output

Firstly, congratulations!

I dont seem to be able to get the STL output from the script. I have tried both the Jupyter and nbconverted versions of the script with no luck. I am not too familiar with python so any help is appreciated. All libraries are installed except for matplotlib is binary only due to not having a visual studio install.

remove gap between hexagon columns

There is currently a small gap between the hexagon columns. This leads to a nicer look, however printing it without the gap would speed up print times tremendously, because outer surfaces would be reduced by a huge margin.

Is it possible to to create the model without that gap?

thanks

Constraint about the mirror/light source.

I really appreciate your idea! Thank you for show it to us!

I'm trying my mirror now and have met some problem.

Firstly, the spot effect is not ideal:

1. It's size is too big.
2. Different spot has vary different size.
   Let me show you the photo below. Have you met this problem before?
   

Secondly, I realize you used the sun light for your light source. As my understanding, the parallel light source is better. But I want to use it indoor. Can you give me some advice about concentrated light source? Will he cause some unexpected issue? Unexpected spot pattern etc.?

Thank you advance for your reply.

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