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First Test of Main System.

A project log for Electrospinning Machine

Bring an open source electrospinning machine to the hobbyist level. Made with easily sourced and inexpensive materials.

douglas-millerDouglas Miller 05/03/2016 at 19:480 Comments

I stuck an old 3D printer nozzle on the machine, and ran a test with a weak saline solution to test it from one end to the other. All the electronics, low and high voltage, behaved well together. I got the stretching I wanted, so all's good there.

Sorry about the lighting. I had to grab a flashlight to get a video of it and I guess I'm not very good at keeping it steady while I'm flipping switches and such.

I call this a success. While not perfect because the nozzle isn't perfect, the test went well and I got that stretching. That's the whole point of the machine, after all.

Now, to get the RIGHT nozzle, and make stuff for real. The machine still has a few things I need to do to it, but on the main it's about ready for show time!

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