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Mel started DIY projects in 2018 with a Homemade Electric Guitar to kickstart Midnight Riptide, an online POP-ROCK-EDM band started by Mel and his internet friends. With 3 singles released worldwide, Mel wanted to step up into an instrumentalist from being a lyricist and composer. As high end instruments costs a fortune, Mel wanted to find an alternative which led him to start working on a Homemade Electric Guitar called Melocaster. Collecting reclaimed wood from old house and furniture and acquiring waste wood from nearby woodmill, Mel started building the 3D printer which was named as Meloprinter, later renamed to Melxlxtreme R1 which took more than 6 months of solid research to develop and upgrade. MEL THUNDER AMP The research on building homemade Amps lead Mel to develop a 100 watts Monster Amp called Mel Thunder Amp. 100% Designed by Mel, including the PCB, transformers, CAB, Preamp, Amp board, speaker protection, Power supply and the Mid Range speaker itself custom d...

The idea was sparked as i was walking to the town, where i notice thrown away LED Bulbs polluting the grasslands. Later that day, Mels3D modified V020A2 Table lamp and made it into a prototype Bulb. The casing, Body is 3D printed with eco-friendle biodegradable PLA. RECYCLABILITY  The major disadvantage of the LED lights available in the market is that once it fails, its impossible to repair. Companies seal the body with strong adhesives and mount the PCB in a way that it cant be taken out without ripping off the wires. Hence the customers are forced to buy new. From a eco-friendly prespective, over time it creates a lot of E-Waste. An average household has about 10 LED, in which personally we had to replace or buy new 3 of them in the last 6 months. Over time the brightness of LED reduces, only if there was a way to replace those LEDs. The Bulbs we made consists of LED modules which can be replaced easily, solving the major problems mentioned above. LIGHT C...

                                       GCUBE The superior print quality prototype by Mels3D LABS. Key features: # Welded Steel frame for extra stability. #12mm Industrial linear rail. # Slim MGN 12C Gantry block. # Gantry divided Z belt & Z rail placement for extra Z stability. #Aluminum + Glass bed. # Rebarred Z belt clips and Z pulleys with adjustable position. #2300mm/s tested print speed on Hellfire with 80k accl. #Raspberry pi + Octopus powered klipper. HISTORY   The GCube is the latest Mels3D Design using a Core XY with a 32 bit Motherboard and Voron Extruder. Using 12MM Linear Rails for extra stability and to achieve low maintenance, fast and consistent printing speeds and to battle ghosting, Zbanding and moisture related issues. The name GCube is derived from the calibration cube printed by R1. The print was flawless, where Mel named it The ...

Before making fun of my marker on the Heatblock, I was lazy Doing CNC branding. It was just for a demo pic.  Hellfire is named after the thought whether the not the heatblock will wreck hellfire. The concept behind is simple, that is heating the filament equally from both sides vertically while traditionally the heater catridge are placed horizontally. Hence achieving fast and constant filament melting and increased printing speed. CONFIGURATION It is wired paralled to existing heater port. The  feature can be enabled in  marlin by // control heater 0 and 1 in parallel. //define HEATERS_PARALLEL In config_adv #if ENABLED (HEATERS_PARALLEL) #DEFINE WRITE_HEATER_0(V) { WRITE_HEATER_0P(V); WRITE_HEATER_1(V); } #ELSE #DEFINE WRITE_HEATER_0_(V) WRITE_HEATER_0P(V) #ENDIF

VIBGYOR COLOR MODEL RGB contains of three channels (Red, Green, Blue) Each channel is an 8 bit number string. A bit can consist of 2 values, (0 or 1). where with 2 bits we can store 4 values (00, 01, 10,11)  where 8 bit can store 256 values  ie; 2^n = 2^8 =256 where 0 is considered a value, hence 256-1 = 255 now with 3 channels of 256 values (shades), we can get a maximum color shades of 16777216 shades of colors. ie; 256 * 256 * 256 = 16777216 color shades But the human eyes cannot differentiate or perceive most of the Colors, unless you are a tetrachromat, where you are able to see upto 100 million colors when the average human would see under 10 million. How many colors are in the world? It is infinite, but the colors an average humans can see is estimated around 5-10 millions, depending on person. A modern computer screen shows over 16 million hues of color to show a single image. There are LCD displays that can reproduce each RGB Channel in 10 bits giving 1....

Mels 3D Driver extractor is the module which makes wiring an external driver to your mainboard simple. When you want to run your CNC or 3d printer with high powered steppers, You need external drivers like TB6560 or TB6600, running jumper wires through the motherboard can be quiet dangerous when they get loose, which can cause short circuit or disengage the external stepper drivers. All these problems can be solved with Mels 3D Driver extractor. The wires from the external drivers can be soldered directly to the driver extractor and then mounted to the motherboard hazzle free.

MELS 3D LABS KINEMATICS THE IDEA FOR MELS 3D LABS CHRONOS, A 4 AXIS 3D PRINTER KINEMATICS, WAS CONCIEVED ON EARLY 2021. DESIGNED IN 10/27/2022 AND DIAGRAMS PUBLISHED ON GITHUB ON 7/16/2023 CHRONOS USES INTERNAL RING GEAR FOR THE ARC AXIS MOVEMENTS OF X AND Y WITH A THETA AXIS FOR A TOOL HEAD. PUBLISHING THE KINEMATICS AS A PROOF OF PRIOR ART SEARCH AND TO PRESERVE THE CREDIT OF THE KINEMATICS. THE PRINTER CONSISTS OF AXES X Y Z THETA AXIS with a gear mechanism for radial movements. AS 3D Scanner Kinematics : The biggest advantage of chronos kinematics with a theta axis is that a physical model can be scanned perfectly from all sides and angles. Hence allowing a 3D printer to be a 3D scanner as well with a tool head swap. What is it? It is a new 3D printer kinematics that takes a different approach for advanced 3d printing with 4 axes than traditional 3 axiz. What are the benefits? • 3 axis printers lack vertical strength, Meanwhile a 4 axes printer can compensate this issue...

Mels3D Pi Pro V1.0 is an Octa-Core 3D printer Motherboard based on Raspberry Pi 2040. The RP2040 is a 32-bit dual ARM Cortex-M0+  As of now, Mels3D pi pro is the first ever octa core 3d printer motherboard ever being developed. The motherboard is capable of running 16 Steppers which pushes the limit of whats possible. The Pi pro V1 Is being developed to integrate Mels3D Color Madness, A 7 color mixing Extruder which needs 7 Extruder steppers, which no other 3D Printer motherboard can handle alone. Started as a fun project, It got some potential and as an audio engineer, we love the filter caps, can be used as a mini power backup. Features : 16 Stepper support Power supply filter and UPS Additional GPIO pins for expansion and Development Features in Developmental stage :  A Standalone motherboard that can run Marlin without the need for an additional raspberry Pi. PI PRO ZERO Pi Pro Zero is the created for making the development o...

C1 : The 500kg Steel beast. King of DIY printers. Melxlxtreme C1 [Concrete prototype 1], Is the successor of Melxlxtreme R1, the Bio plastic 3D printer designed by Mels 3D in 2020. Melxlxtreme C1 is a low cost modular 3D concrete printer, which is capable of expanding its X,Y,Z axes to any desired length to increase the print size. The core module which is being developed has a size of 2 meter square and printability of 1 meter square under 5000$ which can be further expanded with additional frames upto 15 meter square. The printing is done with special concrete mix which is developed by Mels3D which can cure in a matter of hours. The initial prints using the core module of the printer focuses on printing concrete vases, pillars, bricks, windows, fish ponds, experimental concrete bee hives, concrete book shelves, teapoy, park benches, park stairs, lounge chairs, continuous concrete walls with infinite length and other concrete decorative & accessories. Once the print qu...

The project began with the development of a 1-meter Cartesian Cube prototype machine. However, to facilitate easier transportation around the house, the printer's width was reduced from 1 meter to 83 cm. Making it a rectangular frame and cubical print bed. This naming it as R1. This modification retains the essential functionality of the original design while making it more convenient for home use. Build Specs Max tested printing speed : 150mm/s Best results as of now : 75mm/s with 550 acceleration & 0.04 junction Deviation Printer dimensions : Length : 120 cm  Width : 83 cm Height : 83 cm  Current Print Dimension : 60 × 60 × 50 cm Print Dimension upgradable : 120*83*83 cm Endstops set to : 48x * 38y * 28z cm Firmware : Marlin 2.0.6.1 upgraded to 2.0.8.2 with SKR2 Steps per unit  A4988 (100, 100, 2600, 95)  DRV8825 (200, 200, 5200, 190) Iinear Advancement K = 0.22 Baud 250000 # printing Material (All metal) [PLA, ABS, Nylon, ASA, TPU etc]...