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, …
Hang ’em high
Storing and using filament is a bit of a problem for me. That is to say I haven’t found an elegant solution to storing and using my filament that I like yet so most of the time they sit in the boxes they were shipped in on the floor next to my Makerbot. I’ve kind of always wanted to have …
Busted prints tearing up the heater block… again
It seems like every couple of months some print becomes unstuck and wraps itself around the print head, getting stuck to the ceramic tape wrap. Removing the blob destroys the insulation. Last time I wrapped the whole thing with a metal tape that I thought ABS would stick to less than it sticks to kapton. But in this case the print …
My Assassin doesn’t seem to have survived
That’s supposed to be an assissin with a mask on and a dagger sticking out of it’s cloak. At 2″ tall it kinda looks that way. But at 1″ I’m not sure it worked out. I tried to do a little cloth sim on the cloak, but it ended disastrously. In the end I went with a little mesh editing …