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.)
Alright, folks. How many people would be interested in an open, durable, user-serviceable burr coffee grinder that costs under $40 in parts and #3dprinting filament?
Repost for reach. I want to see if it's worth publishing.
A modern 3D printer being controlled by an ancient KayPro II. It's printing a G-Code file saved on the floppy disk!
@SamTornado and I did an incredible amount of work to get this going. It's connected to the printer via the serial. We also had to figure out how to connect the KayPro to a PC to copy the G-Code over.
Also wrote a custom program in Z80 assembly to stream the file to the printer.
All this to prove that we could have had home 3D printers in the 80s!
Western Cree & French settler ancestry living in Canada. Also a partial hand #amputee An ability I call my super power.
My blog timeline will be #indigenous related. Various tidbits of life here and there. Mainly a lighthearted escape. I enjoy sharing people's creativity and expression.
I had an epiphany today: Mastodon is my makerspace. I haven't been able to find a makerspace in this area since we moved here in '22, and that's been bugging me. But I scroll through Mastodon and see people's printing, woodworking, electronics, and welding projects, and I admire them, and sometimes I ask questions and learn new techniques. And when I post my own, people do the same.
#3DPrinting folks: Anyone interested in the idea of a #Fediverse model hosting site (like Thingiverse, etc)? I'm wondering whether I should expand @vandam (my self-hosted 3d library manager app) in that direction, and I'd be very interested in your thoughts: https://github.com/Floppy/van_dam/issues/1389
I'm proud to announce the first public release of #Thrixels, my system for #3DPrinting pixel art! After several months of work, I think it's finally ready to inflict on other people - please give it a go if you're interested, and let me know how you get on with it.
Decided to make a holder for 10x 3.5 in floppy for the floppies I keep on my workbench for retro troubleshooting. Anyone interested in the files to print their own?
By folding the garments prior to printing them, we can make complex structures larger than a 3D printer, that unfold into their intended shape #3dprinting
Happy birthday RepRap, thank you for you stunning work and approach of the industrial world. RepRap is so much more than a bunch of machines, it is a different way to see how human kind could move forward better. 💚💚💚
Radiolaria are marine protozoa that build incredibly intricate glass-like skeletons from silica. We are working on an art project generating radiolaria inspired structures and #3dprinting them. Here’s one of our first attempts
Anyone here from #Bristol or #London with a 3D printer, who would be wiling to help me create a couple of small props for an upcoming film? Paid of course.
Further away is fine, too, I just need the finished project in a few weeks time.
The fact that you paid for your 3D printer doesn't mean that any of that money reached the developers giving their time to create and maintain the software it runs.
The rule of thumb is that if you use free open-source software, please consider sponsoring the developers and maintainers of said software.
Amis experts en impression 3d, lors de mes derniers impressions, j'ai souvent des "trous" dans mes surfaces.
Il faut que je touche à quoi ? La température d'impression ? La rétraction ? La vitesse d'impression ?
Tout est sur des valeurs par défaut qui me donnaient de bons résultats jusqu'alors. #3dPrinting
@fosdem#FOSDEM hack. We couldn't refill the hand towel dispensers in the toilets. So the #FreeCAD people designed a key for us, #Prusa people @3dprinting#3dprinting it for us, and the cleaning staff could refill everyone's hand towels.