This week 3Delish completed our final presentation of the fall semester — System Level Design Review!

The team has been hard at work incorporating final design changes, addressing previous feedback concerning temperature control/user maintenance, fleshing out the user process, & preparing for the SLDR presentation.

The team delivered a great presentation and received positive feedback for the progress of the design as well as all of the business case, maintenance, & experimentation progress included!

We’ve also prepared a Gantt Chart for spring semester to plan out our physical build, integration, print optimization, & prototype verification. For spring, our team will be focused on building/integrating the 3 main modules: Linear Extrusion, Printhead, & Print Bed. All of these modules have their own temperature control elements so a large focus will be in integrating these additional components to the existing printer motherboard and creating a breakout board for the remaining components. In addition to the physical builds, our team will also be developing a user interface to allow users to enter appropriate inputs if they are creating a print with multiple materials.

In parallel to the physical build and user interface integration, the team also will be testing material properties and printer parameters to optimize the quality of the print. From our fall experimentation, we understand that material properties and printer settings can have a large impact on the resolution of print especially in finer details, so these lessons learned will be important in delivering a final user guide/recipe book to the consumer.

Before we head on to winter break, the team will have one final meeting to discuss final design considerations and order all the components necessary to hit the spring semester running.

Happy Holidays from 3Delish! ❄️