Darn it, I replaced the HBP cable already, I should not have to deal with this again. Talked to makerbot, sounds like they’re shipping me a new one so I’ll give it another shot, but I hope there’s some advice to prevent this from happening again. At least this time it’s still printing. Makerbot says not to worry as long …
Do Printing Services Undercut Open Sales?
Joseph Chiu pulled me up in chat to ask if I had put in an order with PrintAThing. PrintAThing and MakeXYZ are services where you can register if you have a 3D printer to print things for other people and where you can request if you don’t have a 3D printer a quote for a print you want made. They’re …
TinkerCad is ending
TinkerCad is ending in a few months.In a very real way I owe TinkerCad for Joe’s Makerbot. My boys love TinkerCad. But with TinkerCad’s recent switch to a very prohibitive paid model it was difficult to continue recommending them. And now they’re ending. Part of me wishes that someone will buy them up and keep it going, maybe make a …
More Chess Sets Weekend
I’ve been sitting on the plans for Chessbot Prime for a while now, just haven’t taken the time to print it out to make sure it works. Now I have. In addition I tried out the Wireframe Chess Set by ethanjurman. I modified the knight since that once clearly isn’t going to like printing without supports. I knew the rest of …
Nice primer on 3D printing
Someone texted me a link to this video: Watch Will 3D Printing Change the World? on PBS. See more from Off Book. Good one. No sensationalism, just telling it. Nothing new said, just throw it on the stack of running commentary.
New Chess Set
Finally got some more natural PLA from Joseph Chiu and finished printing SteedMaker’s Classic Chess Set, the chess set where I got the knight I used before from. Now I have a set to play against the Tiki set. I had to start this print as I ran out the door to work. I laid down the blue tape, re-leveled the build plate, set …
3D Printing Tidbit: Clean Dual Colors
Dual color printing has 2 problems: The filament drools out of the hot end that’s not printing causing a mess on the color that is printing. The filament that drooled out will cause that color to dry print until it catches up with the plastic that fell out. Higher end printers take care of this a couple of different ways …
Ah, more TARDIS rings out the door
There, in the “must have cool page” of cheezburger.com under “TARDIS must haves” is my TARDIS ring. Well, it links to the Shapeways which has a link to my etsy store which links to the ring, so I count 4 clicks before you can buy it, but I’m not sad. In fact I’d just like to remind my loyal followers …
Lithophanes in the store
So I think I’ve got the process down. I’ve sliced and printed a variety so now I’m sure I’ve got the process down so it’ll work every time. So now I’m offering lithophane services in the store. For those curious the light they come with are dollar store night lights but the mounting is pretty universal so they can be …
greater than 45 overhang is ba…. doh
I made this to illustrate a point for a project I’m working on about modeling for 3D printers. The rule is that 3D printers can handle gradual overhangs but do not go over 45 degrees or you’ll have trouble. So I made some overhangs at 30, 45, and 60 degrees and printed them out. Myth. Busted. The success of this …