I tweaked on my printer a bit

I am not a fan of cooling fans… I am thinking water cooling the hot end is pretty cool… Watercooling my MakerGear Prusa RepRap 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 …

Anybody have the USB port on their arduino go bad?

I've got intermittent failures that looks like a bad USB cable. On three different cables. One thing I've noticed is that there is a lot of wobble in the connector. I think 9 months of having the cable come around to the front of the printer has messed it up. Is there something I can …

I have some laser scans off of a ROMER arm of my cell phone and 2 tablets  (including…

I have some laser scans off of a ROMER arm of my cell phone and 2 tablets  (including a Nexus 7). They are saved in .IGS, .XYZ and .PSL formats. How can I convert these into a .stl I can use for my RepRap? I'd rather keep my few favors for the scanning and not the conversions …

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