I’ve been fighting with printing 1.75mm PLA. The thicker brass in the hot end causes the heat to creep up more and make the ‘melt zone’ so long and sticky that the printer jams up. So, I fixed this issue. With one of my aquariums. I am now water cooling my hot end.
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Rebuilt build platform for my MakerGear Prusa Mendel RepRap with mirror
I rebuilt the heated build platform on my MakerGear Prusa Mendel. I’ve been having problems with it ‘eating’ glass. I didn’t recess the thermistor enough, so the glass would try to ‘bend’ over it, and break. These are 3D stereoscopic images. You can look at them crossed eyed and get the full effect. You can …
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Space blanket tarp tent.
I wanted to try to make a lighter tent then the 45lb monster that I own. It really sucks to hike it a mile into the woods. So I made a tarp tent. Out of space blankets. So I now have a space-tent? I used two cheap 52.5 x 82.5 aluminized polyester blankets I finally …
Walking stick shelter.
I have spent some time camping this summer. A few trips have been ultra lite trips. I use those space blankets as my blanket for the night. They suck. But they are light and cheap. And they are very noisy. Very noisy. Noisy to sleep under and noisy to pack back up and noisy to …
I am kicking around an idea for a cell phone based water sample spectrometer
It would be used for testing the water in my aquaponics system. I am not sure that the stuff I want to test is even detectable with the hardware I am going to use, but working out the mechanics is what’s challenging for me at the moment. The genisis for this idea is at http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=11840&start=150#p345100 The process is …
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