Production: Turning PET into 3D Printing Filament—Archipelago
Channel: Justin Tyler Tate
Date: 2023-04-28

Now that you have a mass of PET bottles sliced into strips and your filament extruder assembled and working, you can really start producing filament and Archipelago’s islands. With many sections of bottles cut, and them all turned into filament, you can now begin welding those sections together into one long roll - but be careful, any poorly welded joints can lead to printing disaster. As long as your roll of filament is even throughout, you’ll have no problems printing piles of Islands that you can begin constructing with. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Archipelago addresses these issues through a 4 step system empowering individuals to recycle at home using a few specialized, but easy to produce or acquire, tools in combination with modular design.

See the full project at https://archipelagogo.weebly.com/

'Archipelago' has been supported by the following organizations:
Linz FMR
Atelierhaus Salzamt
Kunstuniversität Linz
Canada Council for the Arts