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Category Archives: 3d printing
Form 3 SLA Printer Teardown, Bunnie Style
[Bunnie Huang] has shared with all of us his utterly detailed teardown on the Form 3 SLA printer from Formlabs (on the left in the image above) and in it he says one of the first things he noticed when he opened it to look inside was a big empty …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, Bunnie Huang, bunniestudios, form 3, formlabs, LPU, resin, sla, teardown
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Gradient Infill Puts More Plastic Where You Want It
It is always tricky setting the infill for a 3D printed part. High infill parts are strong but take longer to print, while low infill prints take less time, but are weaker internally and in danger of surface layer droop between the infill pattern. [Stephan] has a better answer: gradient …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, cura, g-code, gcode, infill
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Experiments In Soft Robotics
[Arnav Wagh] has been doing some cool experiments in soft robotics using his home 3D printer.
Soft robots have a lot of advantages, but as [Arnav] points out on his website, it’s pretty hard to get started in the same way as one might with another type of project. You …read more
Posted in 3d printing, flxo, programmable air, robot, robots hacks, soft robotics, TPU
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DIY Lambo That Made The Real Lamborghini Take Notice
When you start sharing your projects with the world, you never know who might take notice. [Sterling Backus] and his son [Xander] have been building a functional Lamborghini Aventador look alike in their garage, and the real Lamborghini company caught wind of it and decided to turn it into an …read more
Stronger 3D Prints — Glue or Carbon Fiber?
[CNCKitchen], like many others, is looking to make strong 3D prints. Using a high tech PLA bio copolyester compound, he printed a bunch of hooks in two different orientations. He used several different types of glue including epoxy and superglue. You can see the video of his results, below.
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Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, carbon fiber, glue
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Folding An Off-The-Shelf 3D Printer
Most 3D printers don’t take up a lot of space, but they can be pretty bulky and awkward to travel with. [Jón Schone] needed a compact folding 3D printer for a secret project on his YouTube channel ProperPrinting, so he decided to modify a Creality Ender 3 Pro to achieve …read more
Finishing FDM Prints with SLS Resin
[Thomas Sanladerer] has a filament-based 3D printer and a resin one. Can the two types of raw material combine to make something better? [Thomas] did some experiments using some magnets to suspend the parts and a hot air soldering gun to heat things up.
The trick turns out to be …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, FDM, print finishing, sls, UV resin
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Testing Carbon Fibre Reinforced Filament By Building An Over-Engineered Skateboard
Advances in filaments for FDM 3D printers have come in leaps and bounds over the past few years, and carbon fibre (CF) reinforced filament is becoming a common sight. Robotics extraordinaire [James Bruton] got his hands on some CF reinforced PLA, and ended up building a completely over-engineered 3D printed …read more
Manual Mesh Bed Levelling for 3D Printers
In 3D printing, we often talk about leveling the print bed, although that’s not an accurate term. A bed that is level in our terms presents a flat surface that is parallel to the path of the print head, but within reason we care little about that. Instead we care …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, auto bed leveling, autolevel, level, tramming
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Multi Material 3D Printing Makes Soft Robot
When you zoom in on a fractal you find it is made of more fractals. Perhaps that helped inspire the Harvard 3D printers that have various arrays of mixing nozzles. In the video below you can see some of the interesting things you can do with an array of mixing …read more