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I drank some beers and I understood that you can turn the cups into something nice.
That’s right, we create one ring out of one dirty cup.
Eventually it will look like this.
This one is made out of old coca-cola cups, which is why they turned out red. When we
actually print using more transparent input material they will turn out somewhat darker
and grayish. First we have to clean the cups thoroughly.
What will happen here? The cups are dried right here. It will take
some time though. Why is it so important to dry the cups?
Because when water remains trapped within the next steps of the process, there is a
chance of ruining the eventual thread due to bubble formation at the end.
Now we will go to the next step, the shredder. I will turn the lever. That’s hard work!
Alright now we will filter the shredded pieces as if we were looking for gold.
We can use the really small pieces for our next step: the extrusion of plastic.
These small pieces of plastic will be led downwards by a kind of worm drive, through
a heated chamber at about 200 degrees Celsius. The plastic will melt and mix together, while
being pushed out as a plastic wire or thread. And this is the final result.
In the very end, we can use this as input for the 3D printer.
What we want to show on this festival is that you can make amazing things using your waste,
by implementing simple and straightforward techniques.
Fantastic; a unique specimen? Absolutely, a unique specimen.