While doing my regular Hackaday surfing, I learned about Polyformer - a filament extruder machine designed by Reiten Chang. Polyformer is by far the most elegant filament extruder that I have ever seen. Immediately after learning about the project, I got in touch with Reiten. We have decided to collaborate on a new filament extruder that resolves the issues I mentioned in the previous post. We will deploy our extruder at ECC Rwanda later this summer.

It will be difficult for us to collaborate on the project since Reiten lives in California and I live in Ontario. For this reason, we will split the project into two halves. Reiten will focus on developing an improved extruder and I will focus on developing the filament enjoiner mechanism. Hopefully, we can meet up at some point to exchange machines.