“Cartesian XY”. One of my most common slip of the tongues is calling “Cartesian XY” 3D printers “Core XY” which isn’t correct. Technically Core XY is a subset of Cartesian XY systems. CoreXY is when the motors for X and Y movement are stationary and the X and Y movement is driven by a belt that loops around both motors and crosses over at the head. Because they’re both going through the head, both motors have to move in tandum to do straight X or Y movement. It’s kinda cool. But it’s not what I was seeing at MRRF. So when I kept saying “Core XY” when recording my video I had to fix it in post. And, maybe as a reminder to my future self not to do that any more, I decided to make it stick out like a sore thumb.
While this is my first MRRF video, this isn’t my first reporting on MRRF. I made blog posts for both days, one of them on the day of. And you can read them here:
I wanted to wait a while to do my MRRF videos. I knew everyone else was going to jump on that and I wanted to stand out… by being late to the party. And I thought this was a good angle. But while I was at MRRF my camera didn’t take very good pictures, and I ended up with very little to use in a video, which is why this one is so talky-talky. I need to plan better for BAMF so I don’t run into that same problem.
MRRF definitely inspired me. I walked away from it wanting to do bigger projects than ever before. However, it also drained the coffers, so it’s time to start the next big thing if I want to do any of those project. I’m hoping it does well enough that I can… well, let’s not count our chickens too early.
