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The actuator is too slow to be powered directly by the main axle, gearing will be needed to make it faster. I used a large Lego motor and a linear actuator to move the x-axis table. In the pictures above you can see the base for the x-axis sliding table (first and second pictures), the mechanism which will make the x-axis table translate left and right (third picture), and the table itself (last two pictures). Becoming a finalist would be seriously awesome and winning a 3d printer would be SUPER AWESOME! Please vote for my Instructable in the Design Now: In Motion Contest. Seeing the 3d printing contest on Instructables was the final little motivator to finally do it! So here is my Instructable on how to make a 3d printer out of Legos! Hope you enjoy! A while later I received the 3d pen as a gift and suddenly the idea seemed much more possible. It was fun, but I thought, why not take it a step farther? Why not build a 3d printer out of Legos? At the time, I did not have a 3d pen so the idea kinda got stowed away in the, cool-project-that-I-want-to-do-sometime-later pile. The result is a 3d printer made from Legos! I had this idea a while back when my friend and I built a copying machine out of the same EV3 set for a science fair. I also enjoy building Lego creations, especially with my EV3 Mindstorm set. My name is Carson and this is my first Instructable! I am 14 years old and I have loved the idea of 3d printing ever since I first heard about it.
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