I love how these two stories landed on the same day. First of all Staples has decided to start selling Cube 3D printers. I’m pretty disappointed that Cube was the first to the larger retail market, but I kinda knew they would be. They’ve got the PR machine, they’re playing all the right moves. Hopefully someone will find a way around their …
What’s in the Pirate3D box?
Singapore based Pirate3D is producing a 3D printer. Why I haven’t heard of them before I don’t know. I mean I love 3D printing and I love Singapore, but this one broadsided me. But even better they’re giving some away! So go, enter their contest and win. Now for some commentary: Pirate3D’s motive here is pretty transparent, or at least …
Printrbot creates sub $300 3D printer
Just going to drop this one quickly because it’s only good for a few more hours, but Printrbot is releasing for $50 cheaper than it’ll retail for their latest mini 3D printer to those who want to get in on the beta. I need to write more about cheap printers, but for now if you don’t mind a little do-it-yourself …
Where to find things to print
Holy smokes, I had no idea there were so many. Usually I just search Thingiverse. I think it’s safe to say I’m pretty active there. But 3D Printing Era lists 16 sources for printable 3D models and I’d be remiss not exploring some of these. Some are paid sites, which is cool, I guess. Many are not exactly focused on FFF printers. …
Replacing the Ceramic Tape on the Heater Block
It’s time to fix the ceramic tape. No patch job this time. There is embarrassingly little written up on how to do this properly. The best I could find was a PDF on how to assemble the Mk7. In the end I managed but I made a lot of mistakes along the way. And sometimes the point of a tutorial is so …
New Acetone Fogger
So I built a new acetone fogger. There it is. Works great. Wide mouth canning jar with regular jar ring attached to a coat hanger in the same way as last time, only on one side this time since I don’t need all 3. I’ve found that increasing the time does make the prints better, but it can make removing …
Panic attack turns I-D-Ten-T Error
Sometimes finding what’s wrong with the makerbot is just a matter of knowing where to look. In this case the problem was between the keyboard and the chair. This is not a good thing to see. Especially when it’s just a little print. It was filling up the whole print bed, tearing the Kapton tape off, and clicking at the …
Joseph Chiu’s Toybuilder Labs is Open!
Friend of the blog Joseph Chiu has scaled up his filament sale operation with it’s own website: Toybuilderlabs.com. I can already vouch for the exceptional quality of both his PLA, which was an incredibly painless first time experience with the stuff, and ABS. In fact my next round of Chessbots will all be Toybuilder Labs ABS. His prices are only slightly higher than …
Chessbot on 3DHacker
Fellow 3D Printing enthusiast and vlogger Andrew Mazzotta, tired from sourcing upgrades on 8 different websites and thought “wouldn’t it be easier if there was just one place for all these things.” So he created 3DHacker.com and invited anyone to showcase their projects and builds and offer them to interested parties. You can host whatever project you want on 3D Hacker and …
So far so good
I hope I’m not jinxing it but my latest round of repairs seems to be doing their job well, well aside from the bad skin issue on large object which I haven’t delved into. I’ve been restocking my dual–extruded objects. Maybe next week I’ll be on Chess sets, but I want to eventually upgrade to the newest version of Sailfish, …