https://youtu.be/fCw5lE_vbbc Yup. That’s a vector thumbnail. Part of my job as Makerspace Administrator for the Washington County Libraries is to basically do what I do with the video thing, but for the Library. And a lesson on Inkscape has been one of those things that many people have requested to help them get started with using the Laser cutter. However, …
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 …
By all rights this is a lousy tutorial. It doesn’t talk about the steps being done, it doesn’t introduce the concepts being used, it runs through the material at a break-neck pace without consideration for the learner. And yet I have learned more by repeatedly going through this tutorial than I would have ever expected. Maybe it’s because of the …
I think I’ve got this figured out. Since upgrading the build platform I’ve been trying to figure out how to stick prints to it. My goal is to have something that will stick as well with ABS or PLA so I don’t have to relevel the build platform if I switch materials. Mind you it’s still a problem because I …
Got some clear PLA a little while back. Spooled it in my usual way around a spool from Makerbot. Turns out the spool I used was too tight, or maybe I spooled it too tight, and it resulted in the spool cracking into smaller and smaller segments near the end. Lots of air prints resulting from this. In the future …
It’s time to fix the ceramic tape. No patch job this time. There is embarrassingly little written up on how to do this properly. The best I could find was a PDF on how to assemble the Mk7. In the end I managed but I made a lot of mistakes along the way. And sometimes the point of a tutorial is so …
As usual I was going to take a lot of picture and walk you step-by-step through the process i went through, but the Makerbot’s support page pretty much covers it, except for the absolutely filthy state of my old nozzles. And when I lost one of the nozzles, just put it down somewhere and I lost track of it. I’ll find it. …
Jumping to the end the final result: This is a great way to quickly give a glossy finish to your prints and it does hide the layers somewhat, but getting good results necessitates having good starting material. There’s a lot of talk about using an acetone vapor to smooth ABS prints so I thought I’d try it out. But instead …
Dual color printing has 2 problems: The filament drools out of the hot end that’s not printing causing a mess on the color that is printing. The filament that drooled out will cause that color to dry print until it catches up with the plastic that fell out. Higher end printers take care of this a couple of different ways …
I made this to illustrate a point for a project I’m working on about modeling for 3D printers. The rule is that 3D printers can handle gradual overhangs but do not go over 45 degrees or you’ll have trouble. So I made some overhangs at 30, 45, and 60 degrees and printed them out. Myth. Busted. The success of this …
