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Makerbot: The making continues
I've been busy this week. I've been conquering alignment challenges, filament challenges, compiling challenges, and eventually most things are turning out the way they're supposed to. ( Come take a look at what I've managed! ) -
Makerbot: Sunday, Late Edition
As I spend a bit more time playing with the toy, I'm understanding it better. I figured out why the build plate was cooling down too much (the cooling fans for the extruder nozzles!), so rather than shroud the whole thing in packing plastic, a single small piece of kapton (high-temperature) tape strategically placed underneath the heatsink to get ( Read more... ) -
This one didn't go so well...
I'm saving "Houston, we have a problem" for when I have a miserable failure at making something related to the space program. This was more along the line of a horticultural mishap.
What I tried to make:
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Makerbot: Day 2
More experimentation and false starts taught me more about the software available to me to run the makerbot. Firmware upgrade, accelerated printing speeds, control over things like platform temperature, print head temperature (easier to do in the machine code itself than some of the GUI options, but hey, if I can make it work, I win!).
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3D movies don't have to be 3D
If you're one of those folks who doesn't do well with 3D movies, you're in luck! ThinkGeek is selling glasses you can wear that will show your left and right eye the same image instead of different ones, and it will look just like a normal movie to you
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Makerbot: Up and running.
My Makerbot arrived today, right on schedule. It was slated to arrive (signature required) at some point during the day - which meant that if I went to work, it would arrive at 10:30am, and if I stayed home, it would show up at 6pm. Well, at 3:09 my doorbell rang, and to my delight it was indeed the package!
( Seek within to see a muchness of blabbering and a smattering of photos! ) -
On the wall again!
The day before Thanksgiving, I broke my foot. Only a little bit, but enough that I needed to take a full 5 weeks off of using it for anything interesting without worry of re-injury. For weeks after I could start using it again, I could feel that every day was better than the last. For the last week, it's felt pretty steady, and today I got back on ( Read more... ) -
I bought myself a present!
I bought myself a birthday/channukah/chrtistmas/yule/solstice/newyears present that should be here next week: a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer! If you've never seen one of these things, well, it's one of those futuristic geek dreams, decades in the making, and possibly one of the many ideas first seen on Star Trek: you take a computer model of some ( Read more... )
