Topic: Re-use for Solidoodle Printer
What alternative uses have Solidoodle owners put their machines too?
I used mine up until 2019 for printing and then moved on to Sunlu S8's. The perspex parts in the extruder cracked to the point where it kept blocking so it was time to retire it from printing.
But what else could I use the XYZ system for as that still worked perfectly. In my case I magnetically attached a USB microscope to the head and used the Z axis for fine focus (0.1mm steps) and the X&Y axis to move the microscope and take pictures which could then be stitched together like a Panoramic image. I've also used it to take a number of images changing the focus through a subject and then stacking the images to get a deeper focus picture.
Since then I've removed the extruder head and stepper and printed a bracket to attach the Microscope.
This image of a Blue Bottle Fly head is the result of stacking together 10 images to increase the depth of field (focus).