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by mwrouse 3125 days ago
There is absolutely no way that video is in real time. What kind of servos are they using?
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By commercial CNC standards, it's not especially fast. Have you ever seen a pick-and-place machine in action?

https://youtu.be/ylk6VMBLrvM?t=3m54s

It looks like they are using either a CoreXY or H-bot based design.

Nice thing about those designs, is that you don't need to accelerate the motors/wiring back and forth. Giving better acceleration rate per unit of motor.

The downside with those systems, is that they tend not to be stiff (due to large amounts of belting), or react to external forces well.

That (H-bot/Core-XY) design would be poor for a convention CNC router, that has to react the forces associated with conventional machining.

But for this application, it doesn't matter. The forces acting on an extruder are basically non-existent, with the exception of (the mass of the extruder * its designed acceleration rate).

For going that fast real time, it might have some trick servos, or a hybrid motor (Search for Technic ClearPath Motors).

If you like that video, then you might like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGiu_0x7tg (Note: Not afflilated with that company, just like the video)

My favorite ridiculously fast machines are wire bonders:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Jn7wVI3LU

Wire benders are pretty cool too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-gabeEJ7EE

This kind of 3d printer generally uses stepper motors, not servos.

From what I can see, this printer appears to use stepper motors too. I'd believe it's real-time.

The X axis is held in place vertically by the 2 shiny metal rods you can see, and is dragged back and forth by the black rubber belt, which is controlled by a stepper motor.

I know, I have several printers mtself. They are using only servos. Which is why it's faster probably. EMJ-04 series.

The rate at which it jumps around is just ridiculous though.

They're actually using servo motors! They refer to it as a "servo-driven parallel gantry system" in the abstract.
Might be brushless motors and encoders
The title says (in real time)