I don’t know anything about #3dPrinters, but am hoping you folks can help me out. What is a good place to start in the under $500 (preferably less), open source, 3d printing realm? I want to make some toys, functional and precise replacement pieces when fixing things, mostly consumer electronics, and I want to be able to set it up with ease.
My primary #3Dprinter died in the middle of a big multi-print session. Had it all apart yesterday to see the remedial work I did on the hot end last year isn't cutting it anymore.
Part I need is a new PTFE heatsink throat liner, but it's an OD of about 3.5 - 3.8mm (depending on which calipers I believe) which doesn't seem to be sold anywhere. 3mm is prob too small and 4mm (of which I have plenty) is too big.
Ordered some 3mm overnight anyway. Will try it today.
I was foiled in my repair parts-swap by connectors. Not enough standardization yet, so was at an impasse. Could've just cut and spliced wires, but instead ordered a few bits to see if I could preserve the modularity.
I realize as I type this I should've just cut/spliced, not wasted my time trying to keep my printer connectorized. Odds are it'll need at most what, maybe one more hot-end swap before it's replaced anyway? Oh well, old habits die hard.
Things people with #3DPrinters do instead of having fun outside :)
Printing and analysing temperature towers to have good print parameters per spool. It’s still annoying that you have to generate spool specific gcode or manually fiddle with the temperature while printing instead of telling the printer “I am using spool #3, that’s the orange PLA with 215°C for the first layer and 205°C for all other layers, as you know”.
What no one told me about having three #3dPrinters : you will always have too many open spools of filament to store properly.
I also never thought I'd get decision lock about WHAT to print now. But I'm thinking about the three printers sitting idle on my work bench and I can't figure out what to do with them right now. There are a BUNCH of prints I want to start, but do you think my brain could commit to the colors I have open? No, of course not. #ADHD#FUBrain
My Brain: Hey, you know what you don't know anything about? #Warhammer. You should start playing that, I wonder if the Warp exists in our reality, hey go get a #cheese stick, we should get a #3DPrinter to make miniatures you don't have enough hobbies, maybe the cat can go get our cheese stick, aw fuck I have to up in less than 6 hours for #church, oh fuck I said #fuck in the same sentence as church, let's go internet now.
This is a long shot, but my spouse is looking for someone who can donate a 3D printer or a laser cutter to a group of artists and #makers who used to experience chronic homelessness. It is an actual #nonprofit so you can get the tax write off. Please boost in case someone in the #fediverse can help.
(Edit to add: in #Texas!)
(edit 2: It needs to be able to print ceramics.)
With the #Cricut Venture and the #GlowForge Aura released within the past week - and also the range of CoreXY and Cartesian #3DPrinters hitting the market at (more of) a consumer price point - it seems like there’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in #Maker tech this year. Fun times to be crafting things.
I created a system for making custom length loops of timing belt, and I happened to see today that it's been one of the more popular pages on Maker Forums for a while. 🎉
I used it to make a loop of almost 5 meters, but it's really useful for any loop length not easily commercially available.
I think that one of the reasons that #3DPrinters don't often use three lead screws to establish and keep a bed level without re-levelling on each print is lack of large enough loops. Lead screws as now cheap enough that this could really lead to more stable mechanical bed supports, faster starts to print jobs, and cheaper BOMs because only one motor is needed. And with inexpensive servos now available, a single servo cheaper than three steppers could give both precise positioning and fast rapids, even with single-start 2mm lead screws.
I'd love to see an open source printer design use this, and I'd happily help make a specific custom jig that's optimized for any particular open source 3d printer to help make that happen.
This are not exactly a #LucasArtsMonth memory, but they are hardly related with #Monkey3. I was so exited with this new monkey game arrival that I start wondering to work as a videogame tester just for the posibility of playing it before it cames to the public. This profession becames my wonder profession for many years in my chilhood and all began with Guybrush and his adventures.
The same game gave me an other interesting related memorie for this #LucasArtsMonth. More or less at the same time that #Monkey3 arraive I heard about #3DPrinters. As Guybrush has now a 3D model I wonder to print one to have it in my colection... It has passed many years from that and now the ministure 3D printing is a reality but in those days was mor like science fiction fron my imagination.