Squirrel Squabble 3D is now available on 3DHacker. The original game is on Board Game Geek. It’s a marathon print to get everything done. And the coins definitely benefit from switching color filament part way through to improve readability, unless your printer has wizard level bridging. Resizing the coins could help their readability, but you lose the ability to put …
Squirrel Squabble is almost ready for release
Between fighting my 3D printer just to keep it working and finishing my etsy and MakeXYZ paid jobs I’ve managed to get together the prototype print for Squirrel Squabble. Some of the complication has come from the fact that I’m doing most of the pieces two tone, meaning I have to pause the print at some point, change the filament, and …
Just going to fix up the left extruder… and now it’s broken
It’s been a slow week because winter’s last gasp prevented me from getting good prints. Then the left extruder suddenly stopped gripping it’s filament. When I took the extruder apart I discovered that the spring loaded arm that keeps pressure on the filament is well and truly broken. Which wasn’t actually a big deal because I had already printed a …
An entire chess set in one model… kinda
This one almost slipped right past my browsing of Thingiverse. In fact if it weren’t for IDO2014 publishing something else in the same vein that had a more colorful thumbnail I might have missed it forever. But that’s what happens when a day of submissions is more than 19 pages. User IDO2014 has published a chess set that uses only …
Back in business… I hope
Nozzle flossing was not the solution I was hoping it would be. In the end I just had to order new nozzles. Of course after installing them I was able to print a few things, but jams still happened until I realized the new nozzles were slightly longer than the old ones and were crashing into my print bed. As …
3DHacker using my logo to test a Bucaneer
http://www.3dhacker.com/3dprinting/entry.php/93-Pirate3D-Buccaneer-3D-Printer-Unboxing The Bucaneer is an exciting printer from a company who seems to be focusing on all the right things. They’re making a cheap printer with software designed for the lowest level of user. Honestly, if I were a little more solvent I’d be tempted to pick one up myself. 3D printing buddy Andrew Mazzotta who runs 3D Hacker got …
Squirrel Squabble 3D design done
Squirrel Squabble is a print and play game on board game geek that I’ve been wanting trying to try out. Unfortunately with any print and play game I have this compelling desire to improve it, either the process of making or the game itself. In this case I limited my meddling to a 3D printed version of the game. I …
White wizard needs food
Between fighting my clogged extruder (flossing hasn’t been entirely effective) I’ve managed to squeeze out my latest modeling project, a wizard to add to my 1″ minis set. I need to use the better camera when I take pictures. This time I did a cloth sim on the robe again, and this time it worked better than on the assassin. …
Floss regularly
My printing this weekend ground to a halt. I think my nozzles are gunked up again. Searching through the old blog’s archives it seems this last happened in March of last year, so I’ve been going for a year on these nozzles. But this time, instead of buying new nozzles I decided to clean the old ones out. I know …
Introducing Cymon’s Designs
Not to be too subtle about it, it’s time to announce Cymon’s Designs, a showcase of my 3D modeling and design work, as well as contact info and a neat business card hat will hopefully drive new work to me. If I can afford to grow my 3D printing endeavors, that’d be great. If they could pay the bills outright, …