Scrambled eggs on a RepRap? Checkmate NASA. I guess I haven’t weighed in on the whole “3D printed food” thing. I thought I had. The machine that NASA has bankrolled is, to me, hardly a 3D printer. It’s a nozzle on a CNC machine, but that’s where the similarity ends because this can only really make one thing. It’s a …
No one is going to have a cabbage for you to… oh
Someone asks for a model of a cabbage on reddit and my initial reaction was that someone was going to have to let them down easy. Only thing is someone has beat me to it with an actual model of a cabbage! Granted it’ll take some editing to make it printable, but that’s much more than I expect anyone to …
Which 3D printer to buy right now
This guy has done excellent research and wrote an excellent article. He does a good run down of what 3D printers are available and what factors to consider. The only problem with this list is it’s good for right now, but in 3 months this list could be very different. In 6 months it will most assuredly. But for right …
Things like this…
I have been unable to print with my right extruder (why is it always the right?) for a week because of this. The filament broke when I tried to remove it and I couldn’t push it out with another filament. Fixing it was ridiculous. After taking apart the fan and drive block so I could get at the broken filament I …
The Cheap 3D Printer
Ever hear the phrase “you get what you pay for”? It’s not just a saying, it’s true. You’re probably looking at that $300 laptop or $200 smart phone you’re reading this on and developing this idea about the cost of technology. Then a 3D printer comes out that’s stable, solid, feature rich, and $2500 and you balk because that’s so …
CGTrader Ultimaker contest
CGTrader is running a 3D modeling contest with 4 grand prizes of Ultimaker 3D printers. The contest is open, design whatever you want and if you impress them you might win. Never heard of CGTrader before? Neither had I. But browsing their site they seem to be a place where you can buy 3D models. Their focus seems to have …
Give an engineer a toy
My day job is full of engineers working on awesome things. Recently they got a 3D printer and they’ve been using it for… everything. Here the printer is in it’s natural environment. Next to it are the build plates. Theoretically they’re one use only but they’ve found ways to extend that, tho it has been found to effect print quality …
So that’s what’s in the box
Pirate 3D released a video that seems to have answered my questions exactly. The first 20 seconds is the interesting points. Looks like their XY gantry is similar to bot-of-the-cloth, but without the cross-over. Interesting this puts all the motors in the same plane, including the Z-Axis. I’m not sure if this is a better or worse than other configurations …
Off the Build Plate
Instead of spreading it out there’s a run down of some of the cool things that have come out of the Makerbot recently: My son designed a Martian with house and rocket ship in Tinkercad a while back and I printed it out for his birthday. I needed to enable supports to do it, but it worked. His reaction when …
Makerbot vs uPrint
My day job has got a uPrint 3D printer by Stratysis which is also a FFF machine like my Replicator, so I decided to print amodel out on both of our machines to see which one looks better. The final judgement is surprisingly neck-and-neck: The uPrint has comparable resolution to the Makerbot, in fact the Makerbot is slightly higher even, but the uPrint has more …