SCIENCE

[tugrik]

...and home-built 3D plastic extrusion printers.

My roomie revar is having some pretty good success with his own version of the 'cupcake CNC' design.

Comments

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Well now, that right there is pretty damn cool. :3 Sweet bit o' equipment right there.

[phar.livejournal.com]

Can you still do papercutting? I have a proposition that requires 100+ booklets of multiple pages each, all cut out rather blindly intricately. Cutting out by hand is not an option. x_x

[dustykat.livejournal.com]

Looks like a fursuit nose!

[dingybatty.livejournal.com]

Amazing. o_O

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

We made a teapot! First real print off the machine:

[dingybatty.livejournal.com]

WOW! How functional is it? XD

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

It's teeeeeny. And it won't hold water, no. But we're going to scale it up to about 3/4 a real teapot size and see how it goes, hopefully.

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

This looks like it was path-planned a bit differently from the objects I'd seen on the MakerBot web site (traces following the contours of the teapot, rather than cross-hatching cross-sections of it). Did Revar hack up custom STL-to-servo-code software, or did I misunderstand how the original worked?

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

If it's made from ABS, try marinating it in acetone for a few (minutes|hours), and see if that makes it watertight. It _should_ fuse nearby plastic fibers, if I'm remembering which solvents worked on which plastics.

[darkwolven.livejournal.com]

you have access to all the cool shit. :P

[nerfcoyote.livejournal.com]

Really cool stuff Tug! I was like -- something about that teapot looks familiar...

I think Dusty mentioned Revar was working on a 3D Printer, I was like... you can DO that??