365 days ago people weren’t talking about 3D printing. Now people are trying to shoot it down because it’s not the technology everyone hoped it would be. Well excuuuuuuse me princess. Actually, it’s rather encouraging to see this sort of counter argument presented. The expectations of 3D printing has had a certain amount of inflation associated with it. I suppose we can blame …
Fixing a nebulizer with new materials
Here’s an interesting story of someone doing a repair of a medical device. He had trouble with ABS not being strong enough, which is amazing because I’ve stepped on ABS parts, so he used a nylon filament and a little suguru, and his kid is back on his meds on the cheap. I haven’t had much reason to explore the …
ProtoExchange – An idea who’s time has come
Do you have a 3D printer? Are you running it as often as you can? Would you like to make some money while between interesting prints? Why not rent out your print time to others? Then ProtoExchange is the site for you. Only, it needs your help to get started, so visit the Indiegogo campaign and donate to the developers …
Brainstorming the chess set
Merry Christmas to all. While getting ready for my holiday trip I found an old notebook where I brainstormed ideas for my chessbot. Here’s the earliest sketch of what eventually became my winning entry. I originally was playing with the idea of using a pawn for the head. I wanted to get a robocop vibe, but I couldn’t resolve the …
Shutting down the store, and the bot, for the season
I’ll be spending from now till the end of the year with the in-laws. As much as I tried to convince my wife the bot had to stay behind. So I’ve got a few weeks to plan for my return and work on some other projects, between visiting with family and whatever. So farewell until next year!
What can one awesome person do with a 3D printer in a year?
Wow. That is a lot of cool and utilitarian stuff. This guy has really used his printer to the max. What is my 1 year report going to look like? Probably this:
Questions about 3D printing 3
Todays questions are from Jarkko from the University of Tampere in Finland who says: Our aim is to find out how new technologies in 3D printing, CAD software and design processes are changing and how the new “open design generation” differs with traditional desing practices. 1. What is your education level? For how long have you been involved in 3D printing …
3D Printing Tidbit – Spooling loose filament
Believe me when I say that hours of trial and error have gone into discovering this trick. Sometimes you get loose filament, filament that is not on a spool. And whether you use an empty spool or print one getting the filament on the spool in always a challenge. The filament either gets twisted and wants to knot up or gets …
Fixing the fan for good
ad·ven·ture adˈvenCHər – (N) 1. An unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity. 2. When you set out to do something, everything goes wrong, but you survive and in the end you say “That was an adventure”. Had an adventure today upgrading the body fan on my replicator. Last time I moved the one fan closer to the outside. That was fine, …
Chessbot on Mancave
Dutch site Mancave featured my chessbot set even giving it title billing. Thang goodness for automatic translation services. I don’t think I’ll ever stop printing chess sets at this rate… which somehow I don’t feed bad about at all.