I’ve put together three entries for the engineer vs designer absurd iPhone contest. It’s been a lot of fun, and it’s a great excuse to jump into openSCAD and start actually creating things, as opposed to duplicating things that others have built. So far I have built a wheeled iphone case with a broomstick handle, …
Monthly Archives: March 2012
rename your ramps or gen6 ftdi serial connection
You can change the name of your ftdi serial connection with a little bit of magic that piotr whipped up. That means that you can have multiple machines connected and give them logical names. In this example I changed mine from the random character string to PRUSAG6. All of the info is from dangerous prototypes …
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OpenSCAD tip: How to get formatting.
I’ve been diving into learning openSCAD lately, and it has sometimes been a rough road. One thing that has really helped me has been occasionally copying my script into a blank arduino window, letting it auto-format (command-t) , and then pasting it back into openSCAD. The formatting really helps illustrate where the brackets line up. …
How to monitor your reprap remotely with skype!
I was pretty pleased with myself when I thought of this. It is super simple, but it works well. I have been very nervous to run down to do the laundry, or to check the mail while I am printing. Not that my machine has problems, but I want to be there if it does. …
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recovering from a pause in pronterface
Today on IRC Kliment was kind enough to help me figure out something that has bugged me for quite some time now. Whenever I pause a print in pronterface, jog the z axis, and then resume the print it slows down to a crawl. Kliment explained to me that the z jog sends its own …
10 seconds away from a quieter reprap
I made this video so you could listen to the before and after. Unfortunately, I’m in there yappin’ for most of it. I was recently at a reprap meetup and there were two brothers with mendelmax machines there. They were eerily quiet. The printers, not the brothers. I was thinking about it on the ride …
how to salvage a failed print
Today I was printing a part on my prusa and it stopped extruding. I still don’t know why, but I do know that the printhead was a full cm above where the piece was, and it was happily just spinning along. Since my part was essentially the same outline at the point where it was …