https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV08x0R8tpM Code for 3D Scholars: J:LUVLXJ PJ LUVMJ Technically this is a day late. While January 28th is Chinese New Year, just like the New Year I’m most acquainted with, the day itself is pretty much secondary to the day before and the countdown at midnight. So apologies to all my Chinese viewers to not getting this out in time. Download …
3D printed pompom ring
This silly little project was motivated by a twitter conversation between myself, the 3D Printing Noob, and the 3D Pritning Cheerleading Squad of Lauren Renee and Heather of A Pyro Design. When an offhand conversation goes to production in less than a day, I can’t really charge for that one. So when I uploaded it it went to PinShape, naturally, …
The surprising necessity of a fan when 3D printing
Left, no fan, right, light fan. This may come as a shock to you, but there was a time where a downward blowing fan was not standard equipment on most 3D printers. The 3D printing technology at the time, developed by the likes of 3D Systems and Stratasys, never needed one. They were printing ABS in enclosures. And so the …
Are you getting in on the 3D Block Zoo?
It started when the better half of A Pyro Design, Heather, did her first 3D modeling in Tinkercad, a simple bunny that started as a default cube, followed later by a swan. Then SparkyFace5 on Twitter made her own animals and took to YouTube to put out a call to action and, boy, has it taken off. Thing is making an animal for …
What about variable width?
I had been printing lithophane maker coins… note to self, make a post about my new maker coins. Anyways, I was making lithophanes, the best settings for which are 1 shell, 100% infill, 0 top layers (since the infill covers that). Then when I switched to another print, a quarter top of a cylinder, and I changed the infill back …
When not to use the cooling fan
I’m printing a job of a character holding a staff at various sizes. At 2″ tall the model prints fine. A little larger, it’s fine. But jump to 6 inches tall and the prints failed repeatedly. I tried everything. I made the staff thicker. more shells, added supports (manually), brought the printer in doors. No matter what I did the …
3D printed L Bracket Drawer Repair
The particle board behind my daughters drawer did what particle board does over time. So instead of running to the store to get some L brackets to fix it I decided to try 3D printing them. Learning from last time I decided to search Yeggi first. Couldn’t find exactly what I wanted, though I did find an interesting project, so …
A squishy friend for the portfolio
I realized my thing portfollio needed an example of a ninjaflex print, so I made a squishy Yog Soggoth. I don’t know why it amuses me so much to have a flexible lovecraft flying spaghetti monster, but it does.
Literally reinventing the wheel.
Our dishwasher rack slipped and fel against the heating element melting one of the wheels so my wife suggested I fix this with 3D printing like I’ve done before. So flexing my manly mouse pushing muscles I loaded up Blender and started modeling, scratching my head about what concessions I would have to make to have it print without supports …
The ultimate vanity object
Or ultimate heirloom. This was made by taking a scan of my wife with a Kinect and editing it. When printing I changed filament and then smoothed the print. The scannect doesn’t take a lot of details, so this is a less detailed cameos, but it works okay. I learned something when making this. The cameo is ABS, the setting …