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This the last piece in the system I designed, and I was sorta running out of time an patience. Clearly I could've been more creative and housed the components a bit better. Additionally, I wanted to print this in black ABS for better light control. However, it was much quicker/easier to just keep printing the green PLA, so I did.
If I hadn't neglected my other extruder (which clogged because I'd left PLA init while printing ABS for weeks with the other one) I would've been able to easily swap back and forth between ABS and PLA for the various iterations of the various pieces that were required.
Ilya got to be the first to hold the tiny Sonic Screwdriver I printed. It was a beast to do in 1/4 scale, all the tiny parts just wanted to get gummed up and only half print. But I think a sewing pin will make up for the interior parts that I just didn't get to work.
#1/4scale #msd #bjd #dollfairyland #Minifeekarsh #SonicScrewdriver #doctorwho #3dprinting
Not 100% successful here, but I was able to get one glasses temple (the one I needed more) out of this print.
I should've known that those towers wouldn't hold. But somehow them coming loose wasn't nearly as catasrophic as it could've been.
Never-the-less, I "traced" an XY and a YZ photograph of the real object, and used a primitive tomography technique (extruding both silhouettes, then intersecting them) to make a passable model.
Then I designed the HIPS support (in white) which was basically the shadow of the model if a light source had been infinitely distant and straight up (Z).
I merged the two models then in ReplicatorG. As apparently MakerWare couldn't handle the messy SketchUp STL exports. I realized that I could use ReplicatorG on a different machine and export a file for the SD card. As MakerWare trounced the ReplicatorG installation on my dedicated machine. [GRRR!!!]
The HIPS pretty much came right off, although some parts stuck more vigorously than others.
Next time I'll sculpt the HIPS supports a bit better realizing that they might separate from the ABS, and I'll arrange the two objects better so that at the end it isn't spending most of its time slewing from the top of one to the top of the other.
Noting my Slic3r prints tended to do better in Overhangs and Bridges than my Simplify3d prints, I made an effort to scrunitize and match up the settings (back in May).
Please don't take these setting changes as conclusive. I'm just documenting my experiments and why.
10 hours or so into the 14 hour print (which I had to calculate myself because apparently neither MakerWare nor the MakerBot can do long division) and despite some potentially fatal adhesion/shrinkage issues, it seems the spool of ivory ABS jammed.
I got up to check it in the middle of the night and noticed it was happily going through the motions but no extruding anything.
In the morning I looked, and apparently when my spool was rolled/filled it had an interruption. At that point the worker bent two ends into a V hooked them togther and resumed spooling.
That v-hook is the source of the jam.
Note also that I applied some patch-wire in an attempt to mitigate the peeling/shrinking under her head several hours before it stopped.
I have no idea if this would've succeeded otherwise.
My latest 3D printing project, a K-Cup Compost Tool, has a marketing problem. It was mistaken for garbage, not once, but twice! I had to keep pulling it out of the trash. : )
Washday 48 Hours Before Evacuation
This piece reflects on a transitional moment in Santa Clara County’s agriculture. Many Japanese Americans in Santa Clara were farmers before WWII and their Internment marked the end of their prominent presence in agriculture. Internment accelerated their striving to assimilate into the broader American culture after the War. This photo captures the last time kimonos were hung to dry on Santa Clara farms and it marks a time when forks replaced chopsticks at meals. These kimonos drying in the sun two days before internment are poignant flags waving goodbye to home, crops, and an agricultural way of life. In the sketch and in the 3D object, the fork tines reach downward to root a dislocated community back into the soil.
Models found on thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:24450
www.thingiverse.com/thing:43552
Printed on a Printrbot Jr
Noting my Slic3r prints tended to do better in Overhangs and Bridges than my Simplify3d prints, I made an effort to scrunitize and match up the settings (back in May).
Please don't take these setting changes as conclusive. I'm just documenting my experiments and why.
Noting my Slic3r prints tended to do better in Overhangs and Bridges than my Simplify3d prints, I made an effort to scrunitize and match up the settings (back in May).
Please don't take these setting changes as conclusive. I'm just documenting my experiments and why.
Noting my Slic3r prints tended to do better in Overhangs and Bridges than my Simplify3d prints, I made an effort to scrunitize and match up the settings (back in May).
Please don't take these setting changes as conclusive. I'm just documenting my experiments and why.
BBC correspondent Bill Thompson was our first 3D scanned person at the Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2013. This is a 3D printed glow in the dark bust of Bill.; Photo credit: Kati Byrne
Models found on thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:24450
www.thingiverse.com/thing:43552
Printed on a Printrbot Jr
andrew f. scott. BlackManGrove. FDM model. Combines 3d scanned data using Scan Studio and RapidWorks from a life cast. Additional modeling completed in Maya.
Finally. This dang cardinal was the hardest bird for me to get satisfied with. This is about the fifth iteration.
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