TINYenormous – Build it up to break it down again
arduino, robots, cameras, and life
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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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. …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
This post is to document something that I thought was fairly standard , but after talking to a few people I discovered it isn’t. Some people (I’m looking at you jkeegan) even thought it wasn’t possible. I have been using thin hdpe tubing for some time to enable my extruder to unspool filament by itself. …
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This is the convergence of all of my interests: bikes, 3d printing and shiny things! I saw it featured over on Hackaday, but it’s just too good to not repost. This is a bike built up from carbon fiber rods and laser-sintered metallic lugs. There is a whole lot of awesome in that sentence. I’m …
I’ll admit it. I went into cvs and walked out with two packages of nail files and a snapple. What of it? Despite the weird looks from cashiers, nail files are absolutely _perfect_ for cleaning up prints. You can do fine sanding, clean up seams, or round off those sharp corners from a kapton heated …
I’m really excited about some tools I have found recently, so I figured I would start a recurring series of posts about them. There will be some simple cheap ones, and some expensive ones. Hopefully they are useful to someone else! If you want a sneak peek, then you can check out the amazon list …
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