3D printer hardware interface

Focus will be on an open source, secure, hardware interface for a plastic 3D printer. The hardware will enable printing of 3D NFTs to provide economic opportunity to builders and artists that focus on physical products. Long term goal is to help enable distributed, on demand, manufacturing, especially in areas that do not have immediate access to common goods.

Interface details: total cost goal less than $200

1. Based off raspberry pi 4 compute module with Wi-Fi and Ethernet ~$100

2. Touch screen for part visualization $75

3. 3D printed housing with fasteners for maintenance $10

4. Work with most common plastic 3d printers currently in use

Timeline:

End of first quarter 2022: CAD design complete for electronics and box

End of second quarter 2022: prototype assembled and initial software testing

End of third quarter 2022: design and software refinement + integration to the Cardano network

End of 2022: functional interface to release to community

Requested funding: $50k to support for design resources

- 2 people working 400 hours and paid $75/hr: $30k

- 10x prototype hardware: $5k

- software CAD and analysis tools: $10k

- 3D printers to test interface with: $5k

This project is part of the Adosia team that is working on IoT devices