I got a message the other day on g+ from ultimaker letting me know that Cura was available for Macs. Cura is software that does both slicing and printer control. It has some cool features so I decided to check it out. INSTALL – The install went very smoothly. It searched for a python module …
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Hack saturday – spend $25 free on amex @ small business
American express has a one a year campaign where they will reimburse you $25 if you register your amex card online and spend more than 25 at a participating small business. Just to reiterate, here are the two rules 1) register your (amex) card online at http://shopsmall.com 2) buy a minimum of $25 worth of …
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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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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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Using a Bowden cable on the reprap prusa cold end
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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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 …
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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