A week or so ago, I designed a Soda Bottle SIP irrigation block to keep all my planters watered automatically. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20753 Now all I needed was a bunch of soda bottles cut to make the planters. I tried a knife resting on a stack of books, and that worked pretty well, but not great. I …
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In album 4/12/12 The top of the bottle gets shoved back into the bottom like this. View this post on Google+ .
Making a fume extractor for ABS fumes for my RepRap
I made myself sick on accident from ABS fumes. I had set up a 120CFM computer case fan to blow the fumes out the window through a cardboard tube. I had changed my fan from 12v to 5v trying to stabilize the PSU voltage and shut that noisy fan up! This backfired. As it now …
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Bella and I made a small patio for the garbage and recycling bins today
First, we had a big lunch of Beef Summer Sauasage, cheese, & crackers. Bella loves the sausage and crackers as you can see. Than we laid down a few extra blocks and bricks to make a better spot for the garbage cans. We are usually pretty good about not having much trash on any given …
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My first home made object is a mason jar funnel for pressure canning
I even uploaded it to thingiverse! http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19197 It took me a couple of tries to get it to export correctly out of Google Sketchup. I made it as a solid object and 'cheated' by printing it with no solid layers or infill so it just did the perimeter. This is done in PLA (which is …
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