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Category Archives: 3d printing
Flexible Build Platforms Work For FDM, How About SLA?
Flexible steel sheets as the foundation for build platforms are used to great advantage in FDM 3D printers. These coated sheets are held flat by magnets during printing, and after printing is done the sheet (with print attached) can be removed and flexed to pop the prints free. This got …read more
Compliant Quadruped Legs Using Servos
Walking robots that move smoothly are tricky to build and usually involve some sort of compliant leg mechanism — a robot limb that can rebound like natural physiology for much better movement than what a stiff machine can accomplish. In his everlasting quest to build a real working robot dog, …read more
Posted in 3d printing, hobby servo, james bruton, OpenDog, quadruped, robotics, robots hacks, walking robot
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Printing Liquid Concrete
In the world of additive manufacturing, there’s always need materials being added to the list of potential filaments to use for printing objects. A method of rapid liquid printing of concrete designed by [Anatoly Berezkin] of Stoneflower 3D makes it possible to print a large variety of shapes from concrete …read more
3D Printable Nameplates From Your Web Browser
It’s an unwritten rule that all proper pieces of shop equipment need a nameplate. Otherwise, how are you going to know what name to use when you curse it under your breath? In the old days these would have been made out of something fancy such as brass, but for …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, label, nameplate, software hacks, stl, web based
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Everything You Wanted to Know About 3D Printing Support but Were Afraid to Ask
At the dawn of 3D printing, support structures were something to avoid. ABS is a hard substance to clear off, and the slicers did a comparatively poor job of making structures that were easy to remove. Today, supports are not a big deal and most of the slicers and materials …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, 3dprinting, cura, support
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Welcome to McDonald’s; Would You Like 3D Printing Resin with That?
University of Toronto researchers have succeeded in converting used cooking oil — from McDonald’s, no less — into high-resolution 3D printing resin. Your first response might be: “Why?”, but thinking about it there are several advantages. For one thing, waste oil is a real problem for the food industry, and …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, cooking oil, McDonald's, resin
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3D Printing for Wire Paths Yields An Arduboy Minus The PCB
What is part way between a printed circuit board and a rats-nest of point-to-point wiring? We’re not sure, but this is it. [Johan von Konow] has come up with an inspired solution, 3D printing an Arduboy case with channels ready-made for all the wires. The effect with his 3DPCBoy is …read more
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3d printing, Arduboy, Arduino Hacks, Games, pcb
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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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