The Lum Printer is an exploration of alternative machine configuration to facilitate the production of large (theoretically unbounded), continuous pieces of highly structured materials such as textiles, composite core structures, or architectural facade elements.
The Lum Printer employs a non-orthogonal machine coordinate space to facilitate the continuous exit of the workpiece from the build envelope via a 5-axis printed TPU belt (which is itself made by the Lum). Another way of describing the configuration is that the assembly plane and the adhesion plane are no longer one and the same.
Full build documentations can be found on Instructables:
Part I: The XY Gantry
Part II: The Infiniprinting Mondule
Relevant sketches from development:
