Bella printed a missing part for one of her toys.

I got a text today saying Bella needed a part for one of her toys printed. This got me pretty excited. My 3 year old is developing problem solving skills. It’s not that Dad will fix it, but what tools he will use too. So we decided to make a new part for her toy. …

Printing tools to make a toybox

I made something to help me make something. If this trend continues, I can see a dangerous chain of events occurring at some far point in the future. A friend of mine and I designed on a napkin (Actually, it may have been a white board, but bear with me) some corner brackets so we can use simple ratchet …

Step 1) buy the cheapest fan in the store

Step 2) go to another store. Find fan you like much better. Buy that one. Step 3) hang fan most of the way. Step 4) dig up set of 50 inch replacement blades a friend gave me years ago. Step 5) mod blades to fit 42 inch fan brackets Step 6) finish hanging fan Step …

I printed some z wobble minimisers and installed them tonight

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20147 I had to leave half way through the print, so I paused the job and powered down the heaters. The print finished ok when i powered the heaters back up, leaving a big blob where the nozzle had sat. Need to lift the nozzle off of the part or something. Last time I tried …

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