Feed Subassembly

The feed subassembly is the part of the splicer that moves the filament. Using stepper motors, A4988 stepper driver chips, and filament extruders, the system can take two lines of 3D printer filament and move them in the intended way. During the process of splicing, the feed moves two pieces of filament out of the core to allow it to heat up, back into the heated core for splicing, and then moves both lines of filament as one out in the same direction. Using 3D printed structures, the motors are held steady at the correct height to work with the heating core.