I'd bought the app Thursday night so I could us it this weekend. I used a $50 black Friday special RCA 7" tablet. Plugged it into my Makergear Prusa Mendal running a fairly current marlin on ramps 1.4. It just worked. I love it when things just work. It took me a minute to figure …
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1) I collect junk to make projects. I will collect junk for YEARS with a project in mind. I have totes and boxes (and a basement and a garage) full of junk for projects that are missing 1 or two bits yet before I can work on the project. I develop skills and collect junk …
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I rebuilt my RepRap, and used a CMM and a spreadsheet to help me square the Mendal Frame using 12 data points. A Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) captures XYZ measurements of differing points taken in 3d space. The one I am using is old, retired, out of calibration certification, and at it's outside edge of …
I bent the Z threaded rods pretty bad learning about the various ways to not use the printer. The Z wobble isolators helped, but it still had issues. I had a few parts left to print out for an 'upgrade' that allows the printer to print much taller. I printed these in the last of …
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So to make it real for her and more fun for me, I printed a catapult on my RepRap. That little machine makes TV much more interesting. In album catapult My 3d printer printing out a Catapult. My 1 year old playing with a catapult during the Punkin Chunkin show! I think she likes it! …
