3D printing set-ups and stories

[rumsfald]

thanks for sharing.

also, i presume this was filmed with your other new toy...

[HeK]

Lemme borrow Luin's iPhone so I can film myself filming my reprap with my Nexus....


So I tweaked the feed-rates some more, got an actual print, but it looks like ass.
Too little filament.


Next up, cut a new, more aggressive hobbed bolt, redo my maths (now with my new micrometer) and try again.

[at0m]

Reminds me of a picture I saw of a dude who took a picture of himself taking a picture of himself taking a picture of himself taking a picture of both wrists (no hands on the camera)

[at0m]

WANT http://store.makerbot.com/replicator.html

[HeK]

WANT http://store.makerbot.com/replicator.html

or build a reprap for the cost of the dual-print head option alone.

Bigger motors and longer rods = any print size you want.
There is a guy on the reprap forums with a 24x24 print bed!

[at0m]

[quote author=at0m link=topic=5815.msg236135#msg236135 date=1326165956]
WANT http://store.makerbot.com/replicator.html

or build a reprap for the cost of the dual-print head option alone.

Bigger motors and longer rods = any print size you want.
There is a guy on the reprap forums with a 24x24 print bed!
[/quote]I know, and a RepRap is what I'm building But I'm almost afraid to do the math on how much it would cost if I 'paid' myself for the time I'm going to spend getting this together vs buying one of those. And there's no dual-head option for RepRaps afaik :/

[HeK]

Reprap is all the things....

http://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=dual+extruder

[at0m]

Good point.

About to dump a load of cash on a RAMPS kit and some motors and other things from Utilmachine, was curious, how much were your steppers? They have NEMA17's for US$21.50, seems kinda pricey to me.

[HeK]

http://www.ebay.com/sch/tony34306/m.html...ksid=p3686

I paid $25 for five motors.

Pay attention to the holding force, voltage. You know steppers better then I.

[at0m]

I know tech specs, but not where to buy them

Got most of this nailed down now except for the extruder itself. I take it you machined that brass block somehow? (I lack large equipment, all I've got is a dremel basically) What are you using for a nozzle?

[HeK]

I made the heater block using a punch, vise, drill, file and tap. I was using wildseye's hot end but I couldn't get it to feed fast enough. General consensus on the rep rap forums is to buy either a jhop or arcol.hu end.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

[HeK]

For software, go with Slic3r. Much easier to use then Skeinforge. Also less German.

Good tutorial: http://richrap.blogspot.com/2012/01/slic...s-and.html

[at0m]

For software, go with Slic3r. Much easier to use then Skeinforge. Also less German.

Good tutorial: http://richrap.blogspot.com/2012/01/slic...s-and.html

I use ReplicatorG for the Makerbot, was going to work on tweaking that to work with the RepRap since it's pretty user-friendly. It's basically just a GUI and wrapper for Skeinforge, but it 'just works' with very little configuration on a Makerbot. Plus its what the people locally are most familiar with (for the same reason)

[HeK]

Give Pronterface a try. I find it's much easier and more refined then ReplicatorG.
Also doesn't crash as much, or at all.

[A. Crow]

Hurry up and print me out a Dogbread.

[HeK]

Hurry up and print me out a Dogbread.

Gimme a STL and we'll talk.

[A. Crow]

BRB, acquiring CAD software.  

[VeraLapsa]

This makes me miss my last year in college. I worked in the robotics lab and we prototyped a lot of parts on a 3D printer.
My classes also used the 3d Printer
Here's a hub I made in Inventor for my CAD Class. I got yelled at for not printing it out at quarter scale.


And this was a prototype wheelchair wheel design for climbing up stairs.


But my favorite is the pawn I made for fun after we had to make lame normal pawn pieces.

[at0m]

None of those load

[VeraLapsa]

:-\ Fixing