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 …
Action Chess Progress: Triumph!
It is done! All the pieces work. They print well, they go together well, they come apart well, and they look great! Finally I have the chess set I’ve wanted since I was a child. I’m packaging up the files for publishing on thingiverse, but I wanted my loyal readers here to be the first to know that the Action Chess set …
Off with their heads!
Well…. carp. I was testing the new coupling on the pawns and rook and forgot to turn off the “use raft/support” option from another print I was setting up (which I haven’t printed yet but whatever). No problem, I’ll just pop them off an…. Pop pop pop. The tops of every single pawn popped right off. I don’t know if …
Action Chess Progress = New Coupler
Sometimes pictures don’t do a design justice. I’ve finally figured out a coupling that will mate with itself and print successfully and stable. I’m really happy with this one. New chess design and new print coming soon. Sorry it took me so long to get this report out. Apparently my new webcam software doesn’t do compression and uploading a 3 …
I miss my Replicator alot
There is an empty place on my table where a replicator once stood. An incomplete chess robot ponders if it’ll need a decoder ring for the manual, alot. So the problems with my electronics was so bad that I needed to send my Replicator back to makerbot for repair. Now I need to be clear, I’m not inadept when it comes to …
Fried.
Remember that post a few days ago when I was trolling to make you think something bad had happened. Well, something bad had happened but it wasn’t really that bad in the end. This isn’t like that. This time something bad really has happened. To save myself from having to tell the story twice I’ll just quote the message I sent …
Nuthin’s printing
I intended this blog to be a frank and open discussion about owning a 3D printer. Well, after 2 week the darn thing isn’t printing anything. Maybe it’s because it was generally too cold. maybe it’s because the extruders are gunked up. Tomorrow I’m going to call around and see if I can get some acetate, clean the extruders, run …
The missing prints
In honor of Mother’s Day yesterday I let my Replicator rest and focused some attention on my wife. Love you, Honey. So no prints from yesterday to report. However, I did skip reporting on two prints from a couple days ago. So here’s that report. Don’t go getting your hopes up too much. I printed another set of pawns. This …
Wrapping up the first week.
Now that I’ve gained some confidence in my Replicator’s printing ability I had it running all day today. Unfortunately the attempts at making the last test pieces for my chess set ended in… …fail. But for some reason my elusive chess set was my only failures. Everything else worked out just fine. I’ve been iterating a design for a clip …
With rings on her fingers…
This morning it was all about the rings That’s a diamond ring for my daughter, a negative Hylian Shield ring for my other son, and a TARDIS ring for me. The diamond ring had some significant overhang and it caused some problems, but overall it was good enough for a little girl. I blame it more on the cold of …