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Today we explore the power of compliant mechanisms by taking a look at a 3D printed blaster designed by Mark Rober and a team of BYU students.
We cover what compliant mechanisms are, and how they can change the way we look at designing and manufacturing products. We also break down some of the manufacturing challenges that might come up with Mark's design and discuss some design tweaks we might make to improve manufacturability for mass production 3D printing.
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Do you guys think Mark Rober's channel will blow up one day?
cheeky lol
Yea I do think it will; Also I was in cad playing around with this design. My skills aren't there but you guys may be able to do it. Imagine if the spring mechanism was mirrored in a 360 fashion... I'm not certain if this would lock the mechanism and it would not be functional but it would be incredibly more powerful. You would also be able to change the print orientation which may change the power of the spring... obviously increasing the length of the draw would add power as well. Interested to see what you guys can do with it.
nah, that dude is just some underdog playing with squirrels in his backyard and pranking others with glitter ;)
Probably, if he starts to experiment with explosives... 🤔
=)
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Love that Slant3D goes out of their way to highlight smaller YT channels like this!
lol
Yea, Mark has a good thing going. He might make it on the platform
I don't think mark's channel is small
@@danielfernandes2813 no if you compare any two channels mark is definitely smaller
@@NonJohns yep, hopefully this shoutout will get him to 2k subs!
When Joerg from The Slingshot Channel sees this, he'll make a semiautomatic version from wood that uses a magazine of 30 mini crossbow bolts and propels them at 950 feet per second.
HA HA HA HAAAA!
You mean fully automatic. :P
@@Micharlus - Let's compromise on fully semiautomatic. :-)
Frame of wood and the compliant mechanism made of leaf springs *cough
And we'll let him show us it's features!
I’m a mechanical engineer and we often avoid compliant mechanisms because they wear down faster and are harder to repair; but in certain cases they let you do stuff you simply can’t do otherwise
I thought one of the main advantages was no wear? As long as its not pushed past the fatigue limit
Could you respond to @theaveragepro1749?
@@theaveragepro1749 Very few modern lightweight materials (that I'm aware of) have fatigue limits. Steel does, aluminum doesn't. I don't believe any polymers have fatigue limits. Would work great if you made everything out of steel and titanium, much harder (material science-wise) materials to machine than Al and polymers.
Exactly. With traditional manufacturing if a part breaks, you can remove the part and replace it. With compliant mechanisms, when something breaks (and it will) you need to throw away the whole device and get a new one. It’s inefficiency masquerading as efficiency.
ok.
This thing should be easy to injection mold with some minor changes to the cocking mechanism and trigger group.
The narrow lines from the compliant mechanism vs the thicker lines of the frame can be mitigated with additional injection points.
That's what I was thinking too
Yeah same, I don’t agree with Slant’s statement at 1:05 that the gun can not be manufactured. Only minor changes need to happen for the part to come out of the injection mold. So, definitely manufacturable.
@@Electheo It goes against everything slant3d stands for.
When something cant be on a 3d printer with a desirable outcome he says "design for the process". When something is more expensive/ difficult on injection molding, its "this X could not be manufactured". He has made his business to compete with injection molding. The last thing he will do is admit even the smallest concession to that process.
^ This, toolmaker by trade, and there is nothing about this mechanism that couldn't be injection moulded. It's annoying listening to this guy.
Let us know what improvements YOU would make to Mark Rober's Nerf Gun, and if you think we should redesign it in another video.
Thanks for watching!
I definitely would like to see what a slant slinger would look like. As well as improved darts. I'd wonder if you could use triangular or gyroid infill to create the spring features. Though that might add to cost.
I’d be awesome if you completely redesigned it to be a fully enclosed nerf gun made out of one part. Especially if it had similar power to a traditional nerf gun. That would be epic
I would move the handle more underneath the mechanism rather than in line with it to get a little more use out of the size of your plate. Also it would be cool if instead of shooting pellets, it shot a winged gilding projectile.
While I understand the goal of Compliant Mechanisms is to minimize part counts, single part products seem more are a novelty. What would be the advantage/disadvantage of having additional material snap into place to create a thicker handle for better grip and product functionality and a more useful lifecycle?
Example: a design including a fold-over sections that sandwich and lock to the handle.
Example: a design with additional textured handle part(s) that could go on either side, to increase thickness and appearance. (increasing the possibility of using a second color, or material like TPU to make a handle more grippy)
Realize this would add requirement for assembly, be it the consumer or as a manufacturing step. What would be some of the non-obvious impacts to mass manufacturability that designers may need to consider when weighing part counts and assembly options of a design?
While this might be a bit too big of a challenge, something you should at least consider is scaling it to the standard Nerf caliber of .50, probably with half-length darts.
Printed one of these myself and was a bit disappointed with the tumbling bullet. I'll have to try the dual density approach! Also the "raft" idea doesn't seem like it would work well. Wouldn't it introduce friction as each of the fins flex along that new surface?
Probably want to make it so thick that there's space to build the springs unsupported.
I’m also not a fan of the raft idea. Large solid cross sections may be geometrically “simple” but the shear material usage and layer time is unattractive. Not to mention when you put that much plastic on the plate you run a much higher risk of thermal warping or peeling (at least on entry level printers). A 30% grid infill is much more stable on a first layer than 100% solid first layer for a large XY footprint part.
Seeing you talk through an improved design and indeed designing it would be really interesting. Yes please !
Obviously I knew you were kidding, but I literally laughed out loud when you said a small CZcamsr
Bro had me questioning his sub count
Just printed this this week, had already come too most of the same conclusions about improving the strength of the launching mechanism. But your ideals for the ammo are very insightful as well. Great work, hope you do an improved version soon!
At 4:44, you suggest making the bottom surface solid and having the compliant mechanism above that--how would you make sure that the compliant mechanism is able to move on top of the solid surface without fusing to it? Support material doesn't seem like it would work there and it also seems too complex to rely on bridging alone.
I'm very curious about this too. Not really picturing how that could work well.
Same way we have parts on a raft that separate easily? Design in a 0.05 gap, the plastic below should help significantly with the bridging but it won't fuse like a normal layer would.
Great Video as always! I think they made the round leap at the back to connect the upper part of the blaster to the handle, so that it doesn't wobble around.
A thicker version I think makes a lot more sense. I would also get rid of the contoured handle, so that it can be scaled up or down without having to drastically affect the ergonomics
Just printed that out last night, yes I would like to see a redesign always have great ideas
These are all good improvements... BUT a fully 2D version is interesting too, cause you can make it out of sheet metal using any 2D process (waterjet cutting, laser cutting, etc).
But you can't. YOu can to enclose the plunger and the bullet. It would have to be a 2-3 layerer metal part
Rober does have a laser cut wood version on the Thingaverse page, but it's really just a demonstration I guess, as you'd need to glue on extra pieces to hold the bullet in place, like slant3D said.
@@slant3d sometimes a larger count of simpler parts is the better option.
Yes you should improve it. I would also suggest adding a magazine to the front. You should be able to print a spring inside allowing the gun to still be one piece. The tricky part would be figuring out the best way to load it.
Awesome idea! If that's too complicated for 2.0 maybe a 3.0 after the rest is figured out because this already seems like a lot. Also... How did I end up in a 3d printing youtube rabbithole, I just watched a video about a guy who used smart tech with his 3d printers and it wasn't even this guy lol! I'm going to be subscribed to a dozen of y'all by the end of the day
Just subscribed and I'm binge watching all your videos, very informative and lots of great ideas for designing objects for 3d printing!
Welcome aboard!
I would love to see a time sunk total into a redo along with a cost to print current form vs your future version.
Yes! Do want to see you iterate on the design. This stuff is fascinating!
I bring great interest to you designing an improved version of this blaster.
Does this still work with resin printers. I feel like you would have more flexibility from a product design standpoint. But it could also make "batches" from a single print
If we get more engineering CZcamsrs making videos like this and so on, products like this can actually become a reality and I love that idea
Id love to see your updated design 😊
I know engineers. They love to change things.
- Dr. Leonard McCoy
Hells yeah I want to see a remix of the Mark Rober's nerf gun!
Me too!
I'd like to see the Improved model. Would you be able to release a file so others could print it if you do?
Yes. Please do the design. It was interesting to see you talk about it, but I want to see the final product
It looks like a nicer production version would have:
- thicker frame to make the back loop guard redundant and the springs stronger
- moving parts piece here would have snap-ready post holes on the plate side and snaps/clips on the top of the print
- face-plates, one with snaps/clips, the other with holes for them, and maybe a logo/bullet-clips on the top of the print
I know that your printers are under constant revision, can you share if there are plans in place to increase the size of your build plates?
3:37 .. what? adding a ripple just makes them marginally longer and more deflection, so a weaker spring per same thickness. How would that make them behave like they are thicker aside from just.. making them thicker? Maybe if you had a biased curve one direction then the other like a singular 'S' per spring element, but not continuous repeating ripples unless you are creating a tension or compression spring. In Rober's design it's a compound spring element more complex than those, the central shaft even deflects a little, unsure if intentional or not.
Yes and I would like to se something that holds the shot so you can shout down and not only up. Love your videos. Learn alot of how to design. Thanks.
Great review! Waiting to see how you redesign it
Thanks! Will do!
I have read about compliant mechanisms a lot over the years, and what i notice as the big problem for making these designs ready for mass production (At least in many instances, i can't speak for all designs.) is that bringing part count down from X parts to specifically 1 part becomes the be all end all goal.
Why not think about it from the perspective "How do i make this from the fewest amount of well designed, robust compliant mechanisms, while keeping manufacturability (Is that a word?) in mind at all times.
For instance, this design looks like it could be split into three or four parts if i'm not missing something (trigger group, spring and plunger, and a "shell" that could consist of one solid piece, or two, depending on what is the best way to assemble it.
Please try these improvements I'd love to see whether it worked
For mass production on a single bed could you stack them. That is Raft-Gun-Gun-Gun or Raft-Gun-Raft(separator)-Gun. Or would this most likely lead to print failure?
I printed one of these for my son and had wondered if there was a way to make the bullets better. I hadn't even considered dual density. I think I'll have to try and figure out exactly how to do that in bambu slicer and fire off a few.
Yes! I would love to see an improvement
I would also like to mention that the bullet doesn’t need to be round. A square-section bullet would mean that the “barrel” could be printed as a simple square hole, with its sides either 45-degree to vertical or at 90, with bridging.
Eh
That might affect aerodynamics though. I'm assuming square projectile wouldn't shoot as well as a round one, but thats just a guess. Might not matter without projectile rotation
Shift the compliant mechanism into the handle and add a slotted area to slide in different barrel types.
Awesome! When will the updated files be available? ;)
I'm building a full-size R5-D4 replica. An obvious bit of puppetry for Arfive is to have the Bad Motivator pop up, and then be easy to reset. My current plan is to disassemble an old Nerf pistol and try and repurpose the parts. But... something like a pair of these mechanisms on either side of the motivator, with the whole thing mounted to the lid of the droid's dome (ie, head), would also be very fascinating and cool.
So, yes, I'd love to see more examples of compliant mechanisms and springs, in whatever shape or form.
Hey whattya tryin to push on us?!
Great channel and excellent discussion. I'm eager to see your mods on this toy.
Would like to see the cad process for making an improved version too.
What if, instead of making it thicker, you printed several at a time, connected side-by-side? Whoever removed them from the printer would pop the layers apart, like with plastic model kits. That way, you get your wider base for minimal adjustments.
how would you keep the springs separated from a backplate during printing?
You can Stack them with a interface layer of another material between each, so you can print a ton at once.
You guys should apply these changes and make a video on it. I think a lot of people would like to see that.
Thanks for the step by step breakdown! It would be awesome if you guys posted a remixed model with those charges!
I'd love to see that slant redesign!
I'd honestly be interested in seeing other ways that mechanisms like this could do work otherwise requiring complex builds. The obvious one that occurs to me after seeing the nerf blaster would be a firing pin and hammer though I completely understand if designing and broadcasting that sort of thing to the general public is not something you want to personally be involved in.
I know printing as one piece would be ideal. But some of the issues you addressed could be solved by a 3 piece design. one being the dart gun mechanisms, and two outer "shell" pieces that provide the profile. I do think its awesome to print everything in one piece, but three pieces that snap together is significantly less than the initial injection molded counter part. A added bonus is you could use different colors for the center part and the outer shells to provide more visual variations without the need for multicolored printers (granted each printer is already using different colors)
With very little modifications to this design, you could make 98% of this object by laser cutting it or using a CNC, all from one sheet of material. The only downside would be to have to pierce the bullet hole separately and doing a bit of sanding.
That’s the thing that puzzles me a lot with how people use those compliant mechanisms. Most of them would be perfect for laser cutting or CNC manufacturing, which would be so much faster and cost effective than 3D printing.
3d printing is just a low commit prototyping medium and admittedly doesn't scale well
but if you just need one or two, or need to iterate. S
perfect process.
the kicker though, is i think the price floor for a cnc machine is a little much
A 3 piece sandwich covers the barrel channel, and the guide at the back, leaving the center layer as a pure 2D section. 3 pieces that could be made by a laser cutter, injection molding, CNC, etc.
Yes!! make a video with the design!! And upload resulting files!
Lauf makes a mountain bike fork called the Carbonera that uses a similar exposed spring mechanism instead of the typical sealed and full of oil piston shock.
I disagree with getting rid of the back stop/cover on the pulling mechanism. I think the main reason for it is so that you cant bumb into on accident and set it off. It would also protect the ring if it were to be dropped. That way the back guard takes the hit instead of the thing that makes the gun work getting hit and possibly breaking.
4:28 perfect circle for first layer is ideal. The less complex the better
My ender 3 refusing to do circles as the first layer, but a random shape say the bottom of a skull (it really loves to print skulls) no problem. I gotta let it rest and talk sweet to it to get a circle, but i can print skulls back to back like nothing even different files, shape, place, and orientation.
Instead of just talking about it, better design it and make an improved one version to show the difference, as now just all talk and not really means what you said really improves it.
I would add a cocking leaver at the back that when you close your hand.. pulls the spring back. Then add a spring loaded mag at the front for the lighter darts that you sumised. Also you could make like s spiral tip on the bullets to add spin? Then when adding width.. when you make the spring mechanism wider ist should also have more power? this would be solved by the mentioned leaver at the back.
how big would you need to print this in order for it to fire real nerf bullets? and would they be half size bullets?
I'm guessing a it would make more sense to print the compliant mechanism as a module , as the mechanism is the only thing that needs to be printed in one part and its size is limited to the build plate, an outer frame can be printed in parts
another method for mass production would be how mark most likely made the metal one: with a water cutter or laser cutter or similar. the downside of that it’s that you’ll get sharp edges that will need to be smoothed out
It's got nothing to do with the video, but my cousin bought a stick hockey table and I noticed it had a 3D printed logo on the side. It's nice to see them in the wild!
I want to see a Improvet Version of this.
Don't fear to use Multimaterial since this opens more ways to improve that Nerf Gun. :)
I would like to see an improved version please!
I wonder if something like Creality CR-30 wouldn't be fix for the size issue? You can print as big as you want with it.
Would be cool to see a fully enclosed on both sides version.
I'm not so sure about the statement about not being able to get multiple densities from a single material. It's a much easier way to get a dual density from the same material, but not the only way.
Lots of materials will expand and contract (changing their density) as they're heated and/cooled. And, steel will sort of lock itself if you cool it down fast enough. Because of this, you can dip part of a yellow hot steel bar into some liquid clay and then quench the entire bar. The part that was in clay will cool more slowly, resulting in a denser, smaller size. After that, you can machine the thing into an even thickness, giving you a single, solid, even material with a non-uniform density.
3d printing this is easy for sure, but this is just a flat plate with shapes cut out. Great candidate for water jetting, wire EDM and really wouldn't be hard to CNC machine depending on size.
Would totally like to see this design taken to its zenith.
Just curious, is this design impossible to make with two half molds welded together?
Could you stick two of them together and make it a double barrel with two triggers?
I like the video a lot but a few things kinda stuck out to me.
The biggest is- can't you make a dual density part by simply hollowing out a cylinder up to a certain point and leave the rest completely solid? I don't think that dual density parts made from a single object are anywhere near unique to 3D printing.
Make the handle a folding and locking part. You then can use it for ammo storage.
Regarding a circle being 'the ideal first layer' (4:20) .. is this thermal related, or just a desire for minimize sub-feature size?
Simplicity
sooo, how do i print this on a belt printer? i have a cr-30
Yes! I want the next video!
Thanks
Please show us the improved version!
Just curious man, are you guys hiring in Boise? (8 years 3D printing experience) would love to apply
Check Indeed. The team throws jobs up there.
Thanks for letting me know
Can you do a video utilizing precious plastics recycling process. ♻️ to recycle any waste 3d printing? Maybe using the shredcyclette.
Hi! and why didn't you make your model with all the improvements you're talking about?
How about using a cr30?
This reminded me of a thin gun from Neal Asher's Polity
Thanks for showing this blaster, I never would have found this otherwise 😆.
No problem 👍
Excellent discussion - you know your onions 👍
Whenever I print it the loop at the back can’t be pulled back
Please make a new and improved version!
excuse my ignorance if it's obvious but why can this only be 3D-printed and not say be injection molded?
You could still screw the handle on, right?
its a tool and empirical study, distribute the stl. the community will improve on design, size, maybe 2 parts. accessories for handles ects. this i a good design to potentially remove the primer from the cartridge supply line.
"This cant be done with any other process" ? yeah right. The issue with those is also that if it breaks, you can't just swap out a new part. Often then whole construction is then busted. To get the spring tension, one could make it by laser or cnc plastic sheet. From carbonfiber, from metals that hold shape instead of permanently bend and even some woods. Nooks and crannies can be made also. Even smart injection molding can do this.
If anyone else is paying attention, u will understand the true potential!!!
1mm for the first layer? What size nozzle do you need to pull that off? O.0
Definitely wouldn't mind seeing a design improvements version of this though, it's always fascinating to see how things can be improved
That would be awesome as a single piece extrusion.
I think you could bulk print these quite easily if you... Somehow stack the print? Like maybe you could print what'e essentially judt one really wide gun and then slice it into thinner pieces like a loaf of bread.
If you make the blaster 'thicker' you'll need a taller bullet? Is that practical?
Where is this new version?
If you thicken it and turn it into a card it can be a plug n play device
Yo, you should definitely build the improved gun!
Yes please 🙏
Your approach to auto-ejection is unclear, but in my experience using a wham bam plate and letting it cool off before taking everything off makes the 3d printed parts simply fall off with no issues. Scraping with a plastic razor blade helps a tiny bit, which of course also could be done for an auto-ejection system.
"small CZcamsr"
1:23
No, not really every modern waterjet, lasercutter, plasmacutter or even cnc mill could manufacture that without issues
Incorrect. Take a close look at the design
@@slant3dI don't know what you could be referring to?
I get that you're trying to shill your 3d printing service, but there really is nothing special about that design in terms of manufacturing complexity. Its just a 2-dimensional part with a few holes cut out, every modern cnc machine can achieve this precision.
Or are you saying that a 300$ desktop 3D Printer is more accurate than a 20.000$ lasercutter or cnc mill?
There even are multiple nerf guns in the mark rober video made with conventional manufacturing techniques, cut out of acrylic sheet, steel and wood.