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Automatic paint mixing.
Joules:
Love the motion of the machine, that’s the way to build a 3D printer. Being able to move the nozzle independent of the bed for step over, just use the table for layer height. Wide belts for drive.... Sorry wrong thread.
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Chilliphil:
Can't help with the electronics side, but to get proportions have you looked a good old fashioned Pantone chart? If I recall there may be a CMYK version which will give you mix proportions for a visually matched colour. Printers get remarkably good at matching a Pantone sample against your target colour.
S. Heslop:
I did find those solder paste jet printers. I thought I mentioned them but I might've forgot to... I couldn't find much on how they actually work, just the implications that there's some fancy fluid dynamics going on to eject a droplet of solder paste. Cool machines though.
I've been looking at this solder paste dispenser. It's somewhat similar to the one linked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU9yRKr6NlM
Also i'm still not entirely sure what Pantone is. All I find when looking for it are big tables of predefined colours. It seems to be a fairly proprietary system.
Oh I was thinking when going to sleep that I should say I appreciate all the suggestions even if i'm dismissing alot of them. I'm enjoying thinking about this.
Chilliphil:
Also i'm still not entirely sure what Pantone is. All I find when looking for it are big tables of predefined colours. It seems to be a fairly proprietary system.
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Sorry I should more accurately have said Pantone guide. When I owned a printing business we had a swatch guide book containing hundreds or thousands of colour samples with the proportions of CMYK or mixes of readily available spot colours to mix to get your desired target colour. These books are not cheap (check out Ebay for example) but they are the standard colour referencing system in the print / design world. On reflection this might be far more complicated than you need but if it's of interest check out Pantone's website.
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