After struggling with the problems with gravity feeding molten glass though a small nozzle (inherent with MIT’s glass printer design), we have decided to redesign our hotend to forcefully extrude molten glass (and other materials). Before we share details of the new design, the next several posts will be covering what we are building so that we can build everything we need for the new design in-house. To that end, our 15KW induction generator is capable of melting most anything at a flip of a switch. It’s seriously like magic! Here are the results from our first run.
