So here’s the good news. Now that I have a picture you can download the heart tokens for love letter on YouMagine. And for the bad news. In a word AAAARRRRGH! First of all the right extruder is still broken. I still can’t trust my left extruder so I’m doing small, then a little larger prints to hopefully scale up …
A quick model that I won’t be printing yet
To start, here’s a really short video with a plug for my book showing how easy it can be to model a heart token for Love Letter. My intent was to print out 13 of them and have a picture of them with the game here for you. That picture would have gone here. So why is there no picture? …
Open letter to slicer makers
There’s a lot of talk about this hot new slicer called Simplify3D. Simple to use but easy to configure. Hey, I’m all for that. MakerWare is a nightmare to configure. Plus any tie I can sever with the big jerk Makerbot the better. However, I did a little exploration with the help of some friends and discovered some things that …
Modio, knocking one thing off my todo list
Sorry I haven’t had anything cool coming off my print bed to talk about. I have a backlog of jobs from MakeXYZ and 3DHubs to fill. I promise I’ll get to something cool soonish. In the meanwhile here’s some lighter news from the world of 3D printing (as opposed to yesterday’s grim post), Modio is awesome. When I made my …
Not cool is not strong enough to cover this, Makerbot
As I said on G+ where I saw this, there is literally no way I can give Makerbot the benefit of the doubt on this one. Makerbot’s patent lawyers have issued a patent application for: A bearing that provides contact force to engage a filament with a drive gear has a movable axis that can be controllably moved toward and …
And then there were two… almost
I’ve been printing with only one extruder for a while now, since the right thermocouple went out while I was fixing the left extruder. I got the replacement thermocouple a while ago but I’ve been putting off fixing it while I finished other projects. That was until the ceramic tape on the left extruder started going out. Welp, no putting it …
Splitting the die
Got a fun job on MakeXYZ for a family d10, a 10 sided dice with the names of the members of this family on each side. They wanted it in blue, I offered to make it in glow-in-the-dark blue I got from Craig at Addicore, because glow-in-the-dark is at least 20% cooler. The initial print did not go well. The …
3D Printing TIP: Designing with supports in mind and the YHT rule
If you want to learn more about designing for home 3D printers, my book, 3D Printing Blueprints, contains everything a beginner needs to know, and more than enough to teach a more experienced 3D designer as well. This post is just a little slice of that knowledge, but if you want more, I encourage you to get the book. There are …
You may now call me “Master”
I promise, this is a one time thing. The only time I will post anything on this blog not directly related to making or 3D printing. But I’m bursting with pride here and have to tell everyone. As of today I have been awarded the degree of “Master of Computer Science” from the Utah State University. This has been a …
Sometimes you just gotta focus
I’m in the middle of a couple of things, waiting until their done before I report on them here. The right extruder is still out of commission, the replacement heater block I got doesn’t fit the heater element (and Makerbot doesn’t sell official heater blocks any more so I’ll probably have to drill it out), I’m building a new enclosure, …