ACL 3d printed bubble machines?

[darylc]

Bubbles are by far the most popular thing in my display. The 'fobble' machines I've been using to date are super unreliable for the price https://djcity.com.au/product/beamz-sb2000-led-smoke-bubble-machine/ I've had 2 die, one that just churns up a mess in it's tank so far, and one that is working well so far.

I was thinking, they are pretty simple, and it should be doable to 3d print them, add a motor and a fan etc

I've been toying with the idea of designing & making my own, so I could have more, smaller units, safer (low voltage), perhaps with auto bubble liquid refilling and maybe an option to plumb a smoke machine into the back of them to do the smoke filled bubbles. Make a nice modular stackable unit.

There are some 3d designs floating around, not sure how relevant they might end up being

Bubble bucket by scratchhax

High capacity bubble machine capable of 14,000 bubbles (more on that bellow) per minute. Uses a 5 gallon bucket, some aluminum extrusion and a 50rpm motor. Everything else is 3d printed. Video and another Video that google highlights made Be sure to check out...

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Bubble Alarm Clock - Bubblebot by Autobotsunite

Tired of a rough start to your day? Autobotsunite introduces Bubblebot - your happy alarm clock. As part of our Mechatronics Course at DTU, we were assigned to design and create an innovative alarm clock. Please check out this video and our blog for more information about our project...

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HFoG's Bubbleinator by HFoG

I felt inspired to create a bubble machine to help entertain my 18 month old granddaughter. (Yeah, that's who it's for. Let's go with that.) Everything prints easily without supports (although you will have to rotate a couple of things to get them oriented correctly). Note that you'll need to...

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Does anyone have any interest in working on such a project? 3d design, prototyping, testing etc?

Daryl

 

[Pavle]

Happy to support where I can @darylc
I’ve got my own printer, but also access to a couple of options at work including a resin printer (commercial sized unit).

from a design / cad perspective, I don’t know much, but I can validate and get some assistance via colleagues who use it for their job. I work in manufacturing.

 

[burnt]

i very much like to be part of the support team

 

[BooY]

Happy to setup a fusion team for design work, and can cnc / laser parts for testing.

 

[samber]

Happy to be part of the testing of the machine.

 

[bpratt]

yep, my new SB2000 has one of the bubble wands stop spinning already, so will be looking at this project for next year.

 

[thewanderingpine]

I've got a 3d printer and would be interested in testing at least. I'm not sure my design skills are really up to scratch for it.

 

[BAZMick]

Happy to help out where I can.

 

[Zuseleets]

My son will happily test them

 

[BAZMick]

My son will happily test them

My daughter will too!

 

[drakky]

Happy to help out where I can , I have a 3d printer not a lot of skills in design though

 

[Dreamin]

Happy to help, have 2 3D printers, and some Fusion 360 experience (although I'm just about to move over to FreeCAD). Looks like a great project. I thought about adding bubbles but the units people have seem to stop working so I was thinking along the same lines.

 

[LawrenceDriveLights]

Interesting approach here (was shared in Holiday Think Tank)

View: https://www.facebook.com/1095716435/posts/10220712930868576/

 

[Jarrad33]

These were massive at my display too. Happy to help with this project. I dont know how much help ill be ( still working on my 3D printer to get it working right)

 

[BAZMick]

If the tin was baked beans we'd have 2 sources of wind for the bubbles