Joe’s Makerbot is now Joe’s 3D Workbench. http://joes3dworkbench.blogspot.com/ This has been a long time coming. I avoided it for many technical reasons, but I now feel it’s time. Joe’s Makerbot (this blog) will remain with it’s history and posts, but I will no longer be updating it. From now on all posts related to making, designing, and teaching will be on …
MyMiniFactory Contest Afterward
Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the MyMiniFactory contest. Unfortunately I did not win, however the set that did win is one that I voted for myself, so I don’t feel back about losing. I am still planning on having the contest, unfortunately I won’t be able to offer a 3D printer, but I can offer a copy …
Finally Printing MetaChess
MetaChess was one of my entries into the Makerbot/Tinkercad Chess challenge that won me my Makerbot and changed my life. Even figured out rules how this chess-on-chess game would play. However until now I’ve never tried printing it. (Funny thing is I love chess pieces, but I don’t play the game very often. Well now I’ve printed it and… clearly …
Printing MyMiniFactory’s chess set
When I first checked out My Mini Factory about the only thing they had of interest to me was a stylish chess set that I had seen around before, but didn’t know where it was from. Turns out it was from My Mini Factory’s army of professional designers, which, yes, I am slightly jealous and would love to get that gig. …
Now that’s a proper Bauhaus set
I don’t know why but the version of the Bauhaus set where everything is more cubical always appealed to me more. Fortunately TeamTeamUSA on thingiverse made one that only had a few small problems, like the knight not being printable without supports and the queen being a work in progress. So fixed up these two problems and printed my own out …
Steampunk Robot Chess Set
Modified version of DutchMogul’s Steampunk Robot Chess Set. These pictures are pre-smoothing but the acetone vapor finish goes very will with the robotic chess set. I think I’ll pair this one with the tiki chess set to make Steampunk vs Island Magic.
Bauhaus Chess Set
The next in my collection of 3D printed chess sets is the Bauhaus Chess Set by Thingiverse user Le_Garage. It’s a nice chess set that even when scaled to the same size as my other chess sets by it’s nature was a bit bulkier and bigger than the others. Plus it took all day to print. This isn’t my favorite …
Chessbot on 3DHacker
Fellow 3D Printing enthusiast and vlogger Andrew Mazzotta, tired from sourcing upgrades on 8 different websites and thought “wouldn’t it be easier if there was just one place for all these things.” So he created 3DHacker.com and invited anyone to showcase their projects and builds and offer them to interested parties. You can host whatever project you want on 3D Hacker and …
Do Printing Services Undercut Open Sales?
Joseph Chiu pulled me up in chat to ask if I had put in an order with PrintAThing. PrintAThing and MakeXYZ are services where you can register if you have a 3D printer to print things for other people and where you can request if you don’t have a 3D printer a quote for a print you want made. They’re …
More Chess Sets Weekend
I’ve been sitting on the plans for Chessbot Prime for a while now, just haven’t taken the time to print it out to make sure it works. Now I have. In addition I tried out the Wireframe Chess Set by ethanjurman. I modified the knight since that once clearly isn’t going to like printing without supports. I knew the rest of …