So good news. Sailfish has an option under General Options called “Ditto” that when you turn it on runs both extruders at once. So no more running gcode through an exe to do that. The bad news, tho, is if you forget to turn it off… Don’t forget to turn it off when you’re done with it. Congrat to Dan …
Pins now in the store
After the makeSLC presentation I had someone (sorry, I didn’t get your name His name was Kelly AKA “That old guy”) ask me “Why don’t you make pins. I wouldn’t buy a ring or pendant, but I’d use a pin.” Well it’s taken me till now to get them in the store, but here they are. I’m super proud of the …
Cubehero, a promising thingiverse alternative
There are a lot of things about thingiverse I like, not the least of which is all the stuff I’ve designed. PirateBay has a physables section which I won’t link to since their ads aren’t exactly family friendly. There’s Physible Exchange, which rose out of annoyance at Thingiverse’s TOS. And now there’s Cube Hero. It’s based on github which means you …
Dog gonit, they do make them
The very first thing I modeled and one of the first things I printed was a replacement drawer guide for my daughter’s drawer because, I thought, there is no one who would sell that particular piece. This is that particular piece. For sale. So I guess I only managed to save $1.75 with doing that myself. Well, that and the …
3D Printing as a Business – History Repeating Itself
Joseph Chiu wrote this on the makerbot user group and I felt it was worth repeating. As Shawn had mentioned a while back, making money on the print-for-pay is generally not a good return on your investment in time/resources… It’s like photocopiers in the early 1980’s. Back then, there were the big high-end copiers that resembled printing presses. Then the …
Lazy Halloween Costume
..okay, not that lazy. I mean you need a 3D printer, the Brain Slug design by 7777773 from Thingiverse, sandpaper to take the existing eye off, a googly eye and super glue. But for the amount of work you have to do.the quality is really, really good. I. Recommend. Everyone. Get. A Brain. Slug.
The Song of My People
Files can be found, as always, on Thingiverse.
Might have overdone it.
Customer said she wanted a birthday greeting with the TARDIS ring she was ordering for a friend. Customer. Service.
the ultimate test
My replicator has been tested and came out… well, not 100%, but pretty darn good. A while ago I made this iThrone for one of the Makerbot sponsored contests I didn’t win. I’ve never had reason to print one, but after the MakeSLC presentation I was approached by someone there who offered to buy one. So, I decided to see if my …
3D printing tip – Picture perfect modeling
So you have a doodad that broke and you want to 3D print a replacement. But how can you be sure that the new part will be a good replacement? Here’s the method I used to make a replacement part for my kid’s drawer that uses only free software and the hardware you probably already have. Put the part on …