I believe that many people have such a habit. When the soap is used in half, it looks thinner and more ugly, and it doesn't want to use it. Sometimes it is thrown away even if you don't have the patience to use it. It is. But this is obviously a waste. Now, thanks to a brand new 3D printer Soap01, you can use the rest of the soap to return to the oven and 3D printing to continue to use it as you like.
“Wittystore's Soap01 is an affordable desktop 3D printer that recycles old soap or soap bars,†said Emanuele Mulas, managing director of Wittystore in Ireland. “The basic principle of our products is simple – recycling soap, And use it to create something that goes beyond soap, which we call art."
In fact, the method of making soap has already existed. There are even kits of homemade soap on the market, but these methods are all too laborious, cumbersome, and not very effective. And this is where Soap01 comes in. You only need to feed the soap, including the soap bars that have been used very thinly, it will print out a brand new soap, you can choose the color and shape, you can even add spices on it. It is understood that Soap01 uses a technology similar to that used in typical FDM / FFF 3D printers.
In making its first prototype, Wittystore designed a machine that uses open source software and incorporates a gantry-style hardware structure. The molten soap is extruded through the nozzle and can move in the X and Y directions. The nozzle on the printer controls the temperature of the soap and the deposition on the print bed. The print bed can be moved along the Z axis. In addition, the 3D printer has been designed to harden the extruded soap material as soon as it comes into contact with the print bed.
The top of the 3D printer has the function of melting and stirring the soap to prepare the raw material (soap bar) for printing.
However, Wittystore added a subtractive manufacturing process to its second prototype to combine it with an extrusion-based 3D printing process.
“When using the subtractive method, a layer of approximately 12 cm by 12 cm, a thin semi-solid soap layer is first extruded and then moved and cut according to the shape of the model.†Mulas said, “The remaining soap can be recycled again. use."
In order to raise funds for the production of these 3D printers, Mulas plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter this month and is scheduled to officially release the 3D printer in December 2016. Mulas plans to offer supporters on Kickstarter a crowdfunding price of €2,500, but the number offered will be very limited (only five).
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