Technically Delaware did an article on my favorite filament provider, Printed Solid. Who show up right smack in the middle of the article (for very little reason)– ME! Muahaha!
Give the article a read when you get a chance, or better yet, order some exotic filament from Printed Solid. 😉
The last full printing day before Maker Faire Nova, I went to start a print on the Wanhao and the whole machine shut down. The LCD Panel went black, the steppers turned off, the works.
Anomaly?
I turned the machine off and on and tried again– same result.
I turned the machine off and on and then went to Quick Settings->Preheat PLA— same result, the machine died.
I figured the worse, but I did a quick Google search and the very first link I pulled up was a discussion on Thingiverse about how the motherboard can’t always handle the load of the heated bed.
Hmm…. Worth an experiment.
I turned the machine back on and I tried just heating up the Extruder. The machine kept running.
Well if the 3D Printing Dieties were trying to stop me from printing on that Wanhao, there is something they don’t know:
I actually kinda like printing on Painter’s Tape! 🙂
I know, I know. I’m in the vast minority.
The things I wanted to print didn’t need a heated bed, so I resliced with no heat and the show went on!
My very second Live Stream was a doozy. Hosted by Travis and Heather over at A Pyro Design on the eve of my birthday, we maxed out the Google Hangout. It was a treat to join the other makers and give them an update on the projects I was working on for MakerFaireNova.
I was listening to an episode of the WTFFF 3D Printing Podcast that caught my eye entitled, WTFFF 451: Closing The 3D Print Gender Gap. At the very, I got to hear an update on myself and my projects.
Thanks to the 3DStartPoint and Tom and Tracy for the shout out.
At the time of publishing this video, I have about 8 days left until Maker Faire Nova on March 19, 2017. More information about the event and tickets can be purchased at http://nova.makerfaire.com/
For my third time participating, I am focusing on 3D prints with embedded elements. With the help of my MakerGear M2, the Wanhao Duplicator i3, and my ever trusty Simplify3D, here’s what I got brewing:
Embedded Prints Within Prints
*I may have attached it differently had I seen Joel Telling’s 200mm bridge first over at 3D Printing Nerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL0nWJ__PNM : )
Embedded Mirrors
*The mirrored vase can also be seen on A Pyro Design’s channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IL3q7-osqE
Embedded Nuts
Embedded Sand!
Embedded Split Rings
Embedded Corks
Embedded Magnets
Yikes guys. I’m starting to do some Live Streams! This week, I joined Lauren from Abuzz Designs and Matt from How I Do It for a little hangout. We discussed selling 3D Prints on Etsy and Shapeways.
Watch the full episode below on Matt’s How I Do It channel.
For this video, I get to share a fun project I did for a new brewery called Heroic Aleworks! You can find them at http://www.heroicaleworks.com
The owners of Heroic Aleworks, don’t just consider themselves brewers, but nerds as well! As a great compliment to their very geeky tasting room (they even have a bathroom painted like a tardis), they have 3D Printed Tap Handles.
This is a great illustration of the “rapid product development” 3D Printing is touted for. They approached me on a Tuesday and we had working Tap Handles by Friday!
To make the tap handles functional, we embedded a standard 3/8″ nut into the print itself to screw onto the keg hardware and that’s where the project got fun!
This video talks about how thinking about the printing orientation ahead of time impacted the design, particularly with the consideration of the hole for the nut.
It also goes over my multiple processes in Simplify 3D and my custom starting and end scripts (same old, same old– very similar to what was used for embedding mirrors and the multi colored Gyro Cube).
Design Notes:
Final Dimensions for my Hole for 3/8″ Nut – 15mm x 17.8mm x 9mm
Final Dimensions for Octagon Hole for Bolt – 11mm Diameter
Custom Ending Script for my processes:
G91 ; relative mode
G1 Z100 ; lift 100mm
Custom Starting Script for Third Process
G90 ; absolute mode
Custom Starting Script for Final Process (After Color Change)
G92 E0 ; zero extruder
G1 E25 F225 ; purge nozzle
G92 E0 ; zero extruder
G90 ; absolute mode
Thanks for watching!
3D Benchy is arguably one of the most well known prints out there and it is commonly used for calibration and testing out a printer’s capabilities. It is no surprise that 3D Printing Industry did an article on the Jolly 3D Printing Torture Test.
The 3D Benchy ‘torture test’ that pushes 3D printers to the limit
And at the very end of the article, my “From Failure Comes Knowledge” makes a cameo (along with some great tips from Joel Telling)
A little starstruck today. The folks behind 3DBenchy liked my MakerCoin and featured me on their blog.
Check out their post at http://www.3dbenchy.com/celebrating-many-3d-printing-fails-2017/
Well a hat tip to the impressively, eagle-eyed Joel Telling for noticing this. One of my models, the Spinning PokeStop Ornament, was one of the showcase prints at a booth at CES. I’m not sure if they followed the attribution clause of my Creative Commons Licensing…. but I’m still excited that a model of mine was used.
An updated @monoprice mini & a $149 (!!!) delta #3dprinter coming in April #ces2017 (at The Venetian Las Vegas) pic.twitter.com/HqygJ9IEgJ
— John Biehler (@JohnBiehler) January 6, 2017