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3D printed webcam-to-microscope adapter
I recently acquired a B&L Balplan biological microscope (about $200 on ebay) to look at really small critters and decided it would be nice to be able to record some of their antics. After a few...
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Successful CT scan processing into 3D printable file
Today was spent researching all the manipulations involved in getting a CT scan into printable form and I managed to get a print out of it. The process starts with DeVide where the dicom data from the...
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Further Adventures in CT Scan 3D Ego Printing
After a long series of manipulations, the CT scan derived face was successfully used to make a pencil holder (of all things!). It is about 100mm high and took about 9 hours to print. You can...
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Snakebite Extruder Testing
One of the biggest problems with FDM 3D printing is hot-end jamming. There seem to be a lot of causes, most of which are not readily identifiable when a jam occurs. One thing...
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3D Printable Thermal Enclosure For 3D Printer
Well, OK, not the whole enclosure, just the parts that hold it together. MegaMax can print big stuff but he’s had problems with large prints delaminating. The answer seems to be enclosing the printer...
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MegaMax Box Results
After building the box for MegaMax I decided to try a big print. The blue 3 face cup is 130mm tall and took a little over 15 hours to print. No delamination! It’s a miracle the extruder kept...
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SnakeBite Extruder Works!
I repaired the Budaschnozzle hot-end over the weekend and bolted the SnakeBite extruder to it and then to MegaMax and tested it last night. There’s plenty of tuning to do, but the first print looks...
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To celebrate the National Day of Making we’re proud to share these great videos we made with the folks at Liquid Wrench for their Tinkernation web site. Big thanks to Tom, Audrey, and Tiffany for...
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A phone with a frickin’ laser!
My recent acquisition of a Meade ETX-90 telescope with computer go-to system for locating objects in the sky got me thinking that it would be nice to have a system to locate objects in the sky when...
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Updated Design- The phone with the frickin’ laser now has a trigger
I added a trigger and it works beautifully! You can DL the files here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:454265 and get your pew-pew on!
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Awesomeness in the Making – it’s the Holiday Make-A-Thon
Since 2010 Milwaukee Makerspace has partnered with Bucketworks to host a Holiday Make-A-Thon on the Friday following Thanksgiving. What do we do at the Make-A-Thon? We make things of course, but more...
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The never-ending 3D printer project
MegaMax has been and continues to be my main project for the last 2+ years. I am currently working on some upgrades that will make him more Mega and even more Max. The Y axis is being converted from...
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Update on the Never-Ending Printer Project
I installed the Y-axis screw drive in MegaMax using the old NEMA-23 stepper motor. A couple really good things came from this: 1) I can now adjust the bed leveling screws from the underside of the bed...
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Further Adventures in 3D Printer Upgrades (upgrades?)
As previously promised, MegaMax’s Y-axis has been converted to screw drive along with the addition of a larger motor, DSP based driver, and 32V power supply. The SmoothieBoard arrived and was quickly...
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Scrap Yard Success
Yesterday some of us went on a little field trip to a couple local scrap yards. We met the people there and learned the ropes of how to do things right and not get hurt while digging for treasure in...
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Son of MegaMax Lives!
MegaMax was a great 3D printer, but it was time for some changes. He was difficult to transport because the electronics were in a separate housing with many cables to disconnect and reconnect, barely...
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Sunday Morning Project – A 3D Printed WebCam Mount for a Telescope
I recently acquired a new eyepiece to replace the damaged one that came with the Meade ETX-90 telescope I bought at a swap meet last year. I decided it needed to have a web-cam mount so I designed and...
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Son of MegaMax Enters Instructables 3D Printing Contest
Many 3D printers being given away as prizes! If I win one I’ll be donating it to my son’s school or other school or library that would like a machine and doesn’t already have one. To do that I need...
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First Ever Test of the 3.5 Liter Syringe Extruder
My last post showed how I made a plunger for a 3.5 liter syringe. Today’s post is the results of the first ever test of that syringe assembly including the plunger. The goal of the test was to...
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Chocolate Cooling System Almost Ready For Testing
Chocolate printer progress continues. This week was devoted to the print cooling system. The chocolate will come out the extruder nozzle in a semi-molten state. It needs to solidify by the time the...
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