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 …
TMBG Flansberg talks 3D printers
Big fan of They Might be Giants. Through them I learned that John Flansberg has started blogging and one of his entries was about 3D printing. The conversation is the sort of arm’s length simple discussion anyone could have: 3D printing cool. 3D printing guns scary (subtext: guns bad). I should be past getting excited whenever someone starts another conversation …
How to make Lithophanes
I have been having a blast figuring out lithophanes and working out how to best make them. I think I’m going to start offering custom lithophane services in the store, which technically means I shouldn’t give away how I’m making them… but that’s not the sort of guy I am. First thing I discovered is the local dollar store sells …
3 months, 17 chess sets
After running out before Christmas I decided to make a back stock of chess sets. In January I started printed them in earnest, using both extruders at once to double my output and printing just as often as I can and expending at least 4 full rolls of filament to see how far they’ll go. Since then the ceramic insulation …