For the uninitiated, a clonedel is a set of molds with which you can cast a reprap with polyester resin. It made a big splash in the reprap circles when it first came out, but Clonedels have really died off in popularity since then. I know why. It seems like a great idea. It can …
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Go buy a Makerbot Grab bag!
I don’t remember who tweeted it, but I saw a tweet a week or so ago saying that the makerbot grab bags were a good deal. I looked at them and bought three. I figured that at $9 each they would be a good deal. even if they had nothing but the ftdi cable. I …
mini free-day @ sparkfun?
The other day I saw a tweet from sparkle labs saying that they were ‘participating’ in American Express small business saturday. The jist of that event is that Amex will give you a $25 statement credit if you register your card on their sbs site and then use it to buy more than $25 from …
Reprap Prusa: pushing plastic, almost ready to roll!
Here’s an overview shot of the prusa, E-stop switch, and macbook. I still have to build the bed, but the rest is all there. Yesterday I flashed it with the sprinter firmware and I like it so far! The biggest thing is that it has acceleration. That enables lower torque motors to start slow and …
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Prusa Update
It’s been a busy start to the summer! I was able to go to Maker Faire, and now that I’m back I’ve spent every spare second on my bike or at the new hackerspace in town. One benefit of being a hackerspace member is that I finally have a place to keep my big /noisy …
super easy measuring rod
rulers are nice, but when you want to tell the difference between 470mm and 469mm, there is no better way than with a stick that is 469mm long. The reprap build instructions suggest you cut some sticks of precise lengths in order to verify that your threaded rod lengths are exact when the frame is …
completely unsorted reflections on building a clonedel
1) Last weekend I completed drilling out my clondel kit and started bolting things together. Here’s a list of things I realized. 2) Having precisely cut threaded rods is nice, but not necessary provided they are longer than spec. 3) Drilling out the metrix createspace clonedel kit is difficult verging on impossible to do exactly. …
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A Makerbot disaster struck!
I’m not sure what’s been going on with my makerbot, but I don’t like the way it has been progressing! All week long I have been having trouble with my extruder board. I’ve been talking with Matt at Makerbot and he has been super helpful, but we haven’t figured it out yet. It will give …
$10 DIY Makerbot filament spool
I can’t believe it took this long, but I finally had a bad filament tangle last week, and a few aborted prints because my old setup wasn’t working. I really needed to get my filament spooled so that it would nicely dispense, and not jam, tangle, or unspool. I really love the way the official …
Help me hack the Belkin Conserve
Howdy internets! I love the idea of being able to safely switch ac power from a microcontroller. There are products like the powerSwitch tail from sparkfun that easily do this job, but I like to try to be as cheap as possible, so I’m trying to do it for half the price with the Belkin …