[Swansea Hackspace] Diamond RGB Hotend

[Gerrit Niezen]

Sorry guys, I tend to disagree. In none of the prints shown are there more than three colours used. I have difficulty imagining how filament can be mixed to produce accurate colours. Even in their Kickstarter campaign, they call it “multi-color” printing. I’ll be happy to be proved wrong though! ;)

The “mixing chamber” is specifically called “small" so that it can switch quickly from one colour to another:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wr3d/the-diamond-hotend-single-nozzle-multi-color-3d-pr/description <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wr3d/the-diamond-hotend-single-nozzle-multi-color-3d-pr/description>

> On 4 Dec 2015, at 10:05, Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Yes, it does print in full colour - it will mix the filament from three reels so you could do 10% Red, 50% Blue and 20% Green etc....
> 
> Not sure how you G-code it to feed the filament though using Slic3r and if there's more RAMPS wiring needed....
> 
> P.S. Emyr - you're such a hoot ;-)
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> On 4 December 2015 at 09:54, Gerrit Niezen <gerrit.niezen at gmail.com <mailto:gerrit.niezen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> For a moment I thought “RGB full colour” meant it mixes and actually prints in full colour, but on closer inspection it looks like you can just print in three colours at once?
> 
>> On 4 Dec 2015, at 09:41, Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk <mailto:richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>> wrote:
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>> Anyone got any views or experience with the RGB full colour hotend?
>> 
>> http://reprap.org/wiki/Diamond_Hotend <http://reprap.org/wiki/Diamond_Hotend>
>> 
>> Christmas is coming and I was wondering if it's any good...
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Richard
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