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So I showed her around the Abbey grounds (and what remains of the Abbey after Henry VIII's reformation rampage) and told her about the site being the very first place in England to have a Christian Church, and the story of Joseph of Arimathea. There was even a roleplaying Tithes-man who told me a few new things about the area that I didn't know. What fortuitous timing!
Recently I had the opportunity to use some 3D printers, and I decided to use them to make the Nuva Cube. The cube is made of PLS, has a length/width/height of 2 inches, and is composed of four 1 7/8" x 1/8" x 2" and two 2" x 1/8" x 2" faces each glued onto one of the sides of a 1 3/4" cube (rather, that's the dimensions of the computer model… as you can tell, the technology is still pretty finicky, and the measurements don't always come out right). I designed it in Tinkercad and glued all the pieces save one together, but the actual printing was done by someone who actually knew what he was doing. :P (The piece I didn't glue was the one on the bottom of Lewa's face since I wasn't there when it finished printing and it was the last piece not yet glued on.) I also have to give credit to fearmaker782 of deviantArt as I frequently referred back to his own System Nuva Cube during the design process since each face is set up on a clear 8 x 8 grid.
Didn't work out that well..the piston was supposed to drive the wheel, but keeps getting stuck., will try again one day.
My QIDI X-Plus 3D printer has been churning out lots of adapters recently for my astro gear. The setup here is a Canon FD 50mm f1.4 lens attached to the ASI294 MC camera. I 3D printed and painted a dew/light shield as well as mounting bracket complete with red dot finder holder. With all the light pollution where I live, the setup is difficult to use without light pollution filters. So when possible, I will head out of the city to darker skies.
Aww see what's arrived, the #kittens in colour look fantastic. Available at ‪#‎shapeways‬
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Short video showing the new #Ultimaker3 #3Dprinting the #3DBenchy dual-colour STL files See video: ift.tt/2dM0JR6 Learn more about 3D printing at 3DBenchy.com
Filament storage at Brandeis Maker Lab, courtesy Brandeis 3D Printing Club.
Filament comes in many different types: chalky, woody, plastic, solid color, transclucent, and even food!
The inlayed logo was made by an extruded cut down 0.8mm and then filling the cut back as a separate body that becomes white. I experimented with filling it back at a draft angle of 26 degrees to leave only the outline for a single color print.
Here are some objects I've printed in 3D using Shapeways.com! The boxes were designed in Google Sketchup, and the ornament was modeled in TopMod.
These pictures represent 3 different materials. The ornament is made using selective laser sintering, which yields a very strong plastic with a rough surface.
The metal box is printed in stainless steel. The process involves a few steps. First, the object is printed layer by layer with stainless steel mixed with a binder. Then it is fired, evaporating the binder, and melting the stainless steel together. It makes a porous stainless steel matrix. Next, they infuse the entire object in bronze, making a solid object, ready for polishing. The resulting object is nice and heavy, but due to the process, it came out just a tiny bit smaller than I expected.
The white plastic box uses FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling). Basically a thin stream of plastic is melted and zig-zagged layer by layer to build up the surface. It's dimensionally accurate, but not as strong as the other methods shown.
Rebuilding a family heirloom w/ 3D Printing - Tuning Peg half is complete
I intentionally will be using a pop color (white in this test run) to not obfuscate what was original and what's filling in the full picture - You know, like how museums fill in the missing bones of dinosaur skeletons.
Failed 3D prints is something that many 3D printer operators have experienced. The most critical moment during a 3D print usually is the first layer. The model has to firmly stick to the build-platform in order for the 3D model print correctly. The blob you can see here is a #3DBenchy 3D-printed on an FFF 3D printer using standard settings: 0.2 mm/layer and 2 perimeters. The build-plate was not calibrated correctly being too far away from the printhead. The first layer detached from the plate surface resulting in a blob of molten plastic that followed the printhead’s movement. #3dbenchy #3dprinting #3dprint #3dprinter #fail #blob See video: ift.tt/1YYpU5B Learn more about 3D printing at 3DBenchy.com
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