It’s amazing what a little reinstall will do… sort of. I wiped out the ReplicatorG folder and my .replicatorg folder in %appdata% to be sure I wouldn’t have any lingering effects of my endless tinkering, then reinstalled ReplicatorG. Then I ran G-Code on the tire lever, manually edited the g-code to increase the build platform to 115 C and the …
Print 10, failure
In an attempt to follow the advice given me I re-leveled the platform and raise the temperature another 5 degrees on both the platform and the extruder. Then I tried to build a bike tire leveler. What the…. So I tried again, this time I watched it, and somehow I managed to prevent the raft from printing. In all my …
Prints 8 and 9, Help!
My next print was so specific to my needs that I didn’t think it would be worth posting it on Thingiverse, but it was actually the very first thing I tried modeling for 3D print even before the Chinese Chess set. However, not having a 3D printer until now I haven’t had a chance to see if I managed to …
Suddenly success!
After watching a Replicator G tips and tricks video I figured out how to raise the platform temperature and had my first successful print. A mini shark clip with an 8mm hex wrench on the back. Unfortunately I scaled down the shark and it may be too small to use to hold my pants away from my bike chain. But …
Prints 2-6
Good morning. Today I’m gonna print something… I hope. So the next step was to install Replicator G. I wanted to get as soon as I could into printing something cooler than the test prints. The install of Replicator G was… pretty good. Why is it trying to install in the My Documents folder? Why isn’t there a shortcut on …
Like I was going to wait
Sitting in it’s soon to be home in the garage As soon as the kids were in bed I queued up the Makerbot’s unboxing tutorial videos and that Replicator was out of the box and assembled. The process was amazingly smooth and simple and only took about 30 minutes, maybe less. Well done Makerbot on a user friendly experience. I …
Everyday I’m Modelin’
I understand Makerbot has had somewhat a delay in getting Replicators out the door in time. First there’s problems filling the the massive quantity of orders fast enough. (Where’s your assembly line guys?) Then there was a problem with many of the heated beds being badly warped meaning they’ve had to do some quick design and replacement work. So what …
Action Chess Development Part 2
You’d have to be looking pretty closely, but I’ve been updating the original Action Chess V2.x model in TinkerCad. I’ve made all the pieces more compact, managed to fit everything inside the size of a normal chess piece, but kept all the relevant connectors. I’ve also improved the artistic side of it. But I’m not uploading the updated designs to …
Action Chess Set Development Part 1
So apparently Gizmoto “…hope[s] that Larson decides to one day print these en masse and sell them on Etsy.” What a great idea! I’ve already toyed with the idea of selling my models through shapeways, but shapeways is kinda expensive for cheap little novelty items. Right now shapeways would want $40-$50 per side for the action chess set, and I’d …