While at the family’s this Thanksgiving they had an old (I mean really old) jumping pegs game with little plastic pegs, many of which have been lost to time. So to pass the time I decided to model them. It actually turned into a bonding experience with Grandpa-in-law. Now that I’m back I can print them out and they turned …
New Dice Tower, Version 1
Dice towers are cool things that help you roll dice fairly. If you play a lot of board games with children or are just concerned that you’re playing with someone evilly talented dice towers are great. I’ve made them out of pringles cans, and printed a few for my immediate family. After printing kid_entropy’s design on Thingiverse I immediately wanted …
Joe’s Makerbot will now be Joe’s 3D Workbench
Joe’s Makerbot is now Joe’s 3D Workbench. http://joes3dworkbench.blogspot.com/ This has been a long time coming. I avoided it for many technical reasons, but I now feel it’s time. Joe’s Makerbot (this blog) will remain with it’s history and posts, but I will no longer be updating it. From now on all posts related to making, designing, and teaching will be on …
Welcome to Joe’s 3D Workbench
Welcome and thanks for visiting Joe’s 3D Workbench. My name is Joe Larson. I am author of the beginner’s introduction to 3D design using Blender, 3D Printing Blueprints, as well as the designer of a growing library of over 100 objects on Thingiverse and Ponoko. When I won a 3D printer from the Makerbot/Tinkercad Chess challenge I started a the Joe’s …
Well that’s new
One of the great things about 3D printing is just when you think you’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s going on it throws you a curve ball. I’m printing a model that is mostly infill in PLA and about 1/4 inch up it stops doing the infill for no apparent reason. I wasn’t watching it at the time …
Store is open, Chessbots discounted
The etsy store is back in business. And since this is Black Friday I’ve dropped the price of my chessbots from $25 to $15. There are only 9 left and when they’re gone they’re gone.
That is a great idea
I’ve got a couple loose spools that I don’t know if they’re ABS or PLA. I wish I had thought of the idea Joseph did. Acetone will stick to ABS, but not PLA, so it makes the perfect identifier.
Printing again. Again.
This will mark the 3rd time I’ve had to replace the ceramic tape on my extruder heads, and it was just as painful as the first two times. But hopefully this time it’ll be the last. Because this time I’ve used high temp tape. My theory is that the reason my tape keeps failing is because when a print fails …
New website and facebook page for the book
Busy day. First thing to report is I finally got off my rump, registered learn3dprintingblueprints.com, which is a bit longer than I wanted but squatters these days, and made a web site for it including that video I made a while back. Secondly, 3D Printing Blueprints also has a facebook page. If you could go and like it that would …
Shutting down the shop for Thanksgiving break
I’m going to be out of town for Thanksgiving, and what with the problems and maintenance that I haven’t had time to do on the 3D printer I’ve got to shut the shop until December. I wish there was a way I can do a soft shut-down so people can still see what I have to offer. First thing when I …