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 …
3D printing is close to my heart too.
Between my own project and the news world this has been a very busy week for this blog. Thank you for reading.Of course everyone is excited about the baby that Doctors made a 3D printed stint for and saved his life. It’s awesome, it’s 3D printing, and it’s a baby, all the making of a good story.But lest we forget …
Now that’s a proper Bauhaus set
I don’t know why but the version of the Bauhaus set where everything is more cubical always appealed to me more. Fortunately TeamTeamUSA on thingiverse made one that only had a few small problems, like the knight not being printable without supports and the queen being a work in progress. So fixed up these two problems and printed my own out …
Everything you want, lubed with snake oil
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