The game I’ve been doing the 3D design for, Boardcraft by Just Game, is now up on kickstarter. It’s exciting to see models I made in the promo video. And there will be more to come. I finished the gnome and a vampire chick recently and I’m working on a few more. I’d really like to see this be successful …
Fixing the left thermocouple
It is majorly disheartening to get home and discover a print didn’t even try because the printer started complaining about the readings it was getting from the left thermocouple, the part that measures the temperature. Especially disheartening when I considered that I had only a month ago replaced the whole extruder assembly, but it was the thermocouple connectors on the …
One more day to vote for me on Pinshapes Toy Contest
Sorry for the silence lately. I’ve been working on a couple of paid projects that don’t leave me much to talk about and a left thermocouple that’s not working and I don’t know if it’s the thermocouple, the board, or my soldering holding them together. But in the meanwhile… PinShape’s toy contest is in it’s final day and I’l love …
The Angel Moroni
I decided to try my hand at making an angel Moroni. The result is before you. The angel Moroni is a statue that decorates the tops of many temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints. Overall I’m not 100% happy with the result, but my attempts to fix it haven’t turned out well. So I’m just going …
CyBot posable toy
I said I wasn’t going to do it, but PinShape’s toy contest convinced me to take the joints I made for my Cymon robot and make a more generic modular robot toy. Introducing CyBot! The goal was to make these bots more home 3D printer friendly than modibots, more stylish than like beco blocks. There is no ball flatening like …
Printing NinjaFlex
I’ve had a roll of red NinjaFlex for an embarisingly long time now (a few months). It’s just been waiting until I sorted out my extruder issues. This weekend, finally I decided to make it happen and try this stuff out. Short version, NinjaFlex is flexable, but not stretchy. It is the most inaccurate and crumby filament I’ve used, so …
How to fix bad filament
If you’ve ever bought filament from a bargain supplier you know you’re rolling the dice. And occasionally you get that roll of filament that no matter what you do it’s a bad print. You try printing higher temp, lower temp, slower, faster, you build an enclosure, you try a fan, and whatever you try the result is the same. Icky …
Fixing Andy’s Guitar
Andy Cohen of the 3D Printing Today podcast sent me a mesh that he said wouldn’t slice very well. So I crack it open and see if I can figure out what’s wrong with it. This is, in a way, supplemental material to the segments I’ve been sending them for the 3D Printing Today podcast, but it’s a bit out …
How to support a ring
In modeling and iterating the rose ring for my wife I made a lot of mistakes and I thought I’d enumerate the lessons I learned about making ring without regards to the YHT rule. Increasing the support angle to 45 degrees is mandatory for ABS. Tilting the ring 30 degrees will prevent the supports holding the top up from passing …
Saving money on PinShape, Sculpeto, or Shapeways
I mentioned before that there’s been some learning involved in using PinShape. Because PinShape partners with Sculpteo to print your stuff, understanding how Sculpteo prices their prints, which is similar to how Shapeways prices their prints, is key in bringing prices down. First of all, a big print is a big print. There’s little to nothing that will bring down …