Since upgradeing my extruder I noticed something in my prints. It wasn’t until I was finishing up a job for a customer that I had a clue what it was. The customer wanted a print that was big, and 100% infill. And the result was a print with a lot of mess on it so that even after vapor smoothing …
I’m going to be going to GenCon
Just Game, the company that has hired me to do several 3D modes for their upcoming game “Boardcraft”, will be demoing their game at GenCon on August 14-17 in Indianapolis, and I’ll be there to help them. This is the first con I’ve ever attended, but as a guy with a book, I hope this will start a trend. I modeled …
New vapor smoothing pot
I got a new steamer pot specifically to use for vapor smoothing. It’s large which means that it will allow me to smooth more things without worrying about things. However it uses a much greater splash of acetone every time to fill it’s volume, which had me checking acetone’s toxicity report. Apparently I’m safe. Do not turn the pan on …
Making money with a 3D printer
I’ve written in the past about the idea of a 3D printer as a money making asset, and I recently got a request to revisit this idea. So I am. First of all, if you are buying a 3D printer with the intent that it is going to make you money, but you have no other idea in your head …
Back in business… mostly
Continued from this post… basically. I haven’t got one of those fancy soldering iron and desoldering iron that everyone tells me I need. Got mine in a kit at CompUSA before they closed down. Got a desoldering bulb to work with it at RadioShack. But that was all I needed to remove the remnants of the parts that broke and solder in the …
Fixing the bot… by breaking it
Got a package in the mail. I am looking over this exturder and loving it. It has, literally, every upgrade I’ve done to my old extruder already built in. It diverts the fans so they don’t blow down. It reenforced the cables to the don’t get pulled as the bot moves around. And on the other end all the wires …
At least I managed to print the heart tokens
So here’s the good news. Now that I have a picture you can download the heart tokens for love letter on YouMagine. And for the bad news. In a word AAAARRRRGH! First of all the right extruder is still broken. I still can’t trust my left extruder so I’m doing small, then a little larger prints to hopefully scale up …
A quick model that I won’t be printing yet
To start, here’s a really short video with a plug for my book showing how easy it can be to model a heart token for Love Letter. My intent was to print out 13 of them and have a picture of them with the game here for you. That picture would have gone here. So why is there no picture? …
Open letter to slicer makers
There’s a lot of talk about this hot new slicer called Simplify3D. Simple to use but easy to configure. Hey, I’m all for that. MakerWare is a nightmare to configure. Plus any tie I can sever with the big jerk Makerbot the better. However, I did a little exploration with the help of some friends and discovered some things that …
Modio, knocking one thing off my todo list
Sorry I haven’t had anything cool coming off my print bed to talk about. I have a backlog of jobs from MakeXYZ and 3DHubs to fill. I promise I’ll get to something cool soonish. In the meanwhile here’s some lighter news from the world of 3D printing (as opposed to yesterday’s grim post), Modio is awesome. When I made my …