Held off making more TARDIS rings available to spend the day working on this. First test print was mostly successful. Okay, the face was upside down, some of the joints were a little off, and the knight isn’t stable. But I’m fixing it and there was less a lot less tinkering outside of tinkercad than with the last one to do …
Killing the Blob 3
(Killing the blob part 1 and 2.) Last one, I promise. Last one because this may be the minimum necessary, like the ZigZag solution, but cooler. You know… for kids. It’s supposed to be a 5 pointed star, but if you ever see a 5 pointed star your pump is too primed. It’d be easy enough to fix, tho. Just …
A more elegant ring
On the right is my old standard ring that all my TARDIS rings are now. On the left is a new ring that I’m experimenting with. Lower profile, you could actually put this one in your pocket and thinner. The disadvantage is that it needs to be glued together. Still, this ones a ways off before it’s ready for prime time. Meanwhile, …
Chessbot on Popular Mechanics
A little bit ago I got an e-mail from a writer for Popular Mechanics who wanted to…. Hold on a second. That Popular Mechanics? Yes, that Popular Mechanics. And they want to feature my Chessbot in an article. Oh. Okay. Hold on a second while I breath into this paper bag. The article is online only, and my set is …
I want one… and I don’t know what for.
Must… resist… hitting… buy… http://www.makeymakey.com/ I’ve got to sell some chessbots so I can buy one of these. Don’t even know what for, just… I mean look at that thing! Using bananas for keyboards!
Go home and be a family man
So Cubify has appeared twice in my news feed in the past week. First for their modular robot toys that they are selling the designs for and second for their design contest where you could win a (gasp) Cubify 3D printer! The question is do you want to? Now just to be clear, Cubify isn’t just 3D printers. Cubify is one …
Killing the Blob 2
(Killing the blob part 1 and 3) The important part is in the corners of the build platform, not the middle This hack to your choice of start.gcode is based on a suggestion by Tai Cullum that the pump priming double as a platform leveling test. So in each corner a little triangle is printed. Advantage: if they stick you …
Killing the blob
(Killing the blob part 2 and 3.) Last time I hacked the gcode I ended up giving up and reverting to the way it was before. However some recent discussion, including a video by Andrew, plus my mounting frustration with the problems I’ll enumerate below have inspired me to try again. The condensed version of this discussion is: Why not …
3D Printing Tidbit 5 – Taping the middle
I’ve got a new way to tape. Look closely at the picture above. I figured since most of my prints happen in the center, and the tape gets most worn where it gets most printed on, why was I ruining two pieces of tape there? So I measured carefully and cut the middle out, then just replaced that part with one …
It sells itself… no really it does
I don’t know if it’s because it’s the beginning of the month or what but I haven’t had time to print anything I want for all the TARDIS rings that have occupied my printer this weekend. The Etsy orders for those things are just going like crazy. I’ve had to organize a little assembly line. Unfortunately my current backlog has …