3D print job: a USB stick holder
A few days ago I received an email, that tinkercad.com is back in business. I like their easy and intuitive 3D cad tool. Here you can find my current design, a USB stick holder, a simple design that only took minutes to design and a few minutes more to print it ...
How to fix a broken umbrella with a 3D printer
During my last vacation my umbrella got broke again. Ordinary people would throw it away, but I wanted to fix it. [caption id="attachment_3333" align="alignnone" width="606"] broken umbrella [/caption] Back home a printed a small tube with my 3D printer. This tube is just fitting over the small broken part. [caption id="attachment_3335" align="alignnone" ...
GoPro camera rail
Just today I also finished this exciting project, a camera rail for the GoPro action camera. [caption id="attachment_3319" align="alignnone" width="606"] GoPro Camera Rail[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3318" align="alignnone" width="606"] GoPro Camera Rail[/caption] It is based on the rails from the german company Igus (link: . I printed two clamps with my 3D printer and added ...
UP! Plus: thermal shots
After the thermal shots of the Raspberry Pi I also made some therma images of my UP! Plus 3D printer. pre-heating Pre-heating is important to minimize wrapping. After 10min of pre-heating the heat-bed has a temperature of 55°C. print During printing the ABS has a temperature of 63°C and the heat bed has ...
3D printers: Test: Printrbot LC vs. Makerbot Replicator 2 vs. Up! Plus
Recently I bought my 3D printer. (I know this is crazy.) I was unhappy with the Printrbot LC and the Makerbot Replicator 2, which I thought would be an awesome printer and would overcome everything, that the Printrbot failed to deliver. But it has it's downsides as well. Thats why I ...
3D Printer: Up Plus! – anti-warping-guide
Warping is common issue with 3D printers. I currently work with the Up Plus printer, there are several things to take care of to avoid warping. There are four things you should pay attention to: 1. close the fan window 2. preheat the heat bed for 15min 3. calibrate the nozzle height ...
My first Thingiverse design: a cable ladder
Today I uploaded my first 3D printer design to thingiverse.com. It can be found here: Link It's a very simple cable spool in form of a ladder. I used tinkercad.com to design the ladder. You can modify the design if you like (at tinkercad.com) or just print it (files available at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:34794).
Printrbot: Yet another time lapse Printrbot video
There might be probably a few time lapse videos of 3D printers around, now here is mine: The Printrbot is printing this part from Tinkercad.com: The printed part was used to fix a broken spring from an Ikeak couch:
Upgrade: Solar-USB-Charger
Introduction During the last weeks I upgraded my solar-usb-charger system. Here you can find the original design: http://www.zipfelmaus.com/bau-dir-ein-apple-solar-ladegerat/ (german article). What the old design basically did was converting the 12V DC from the solar powered battery system to USB friendly 5V DC. New Features I added a couple of features: -OLED-I2C-display (from wide.hk) -Arduino Nano -current sense ...
DIY: repairing my IKEA couch
Two spring mountings of my couch were broken. So it was time for a repair. Here is what I did: First I put my couch up side down. I designed a new 3D part at tinkercad.com. (You can view, modify, download and print the 3d design.) Next I printed the part on my ...
Printrbot: is finally printing
My 3D printer Printrbot is finally completted and ready to print some plastic parts. Today I printed some repairing material for my IKEA couch. I will post some more details about it later.
Printrbot: fourth and fifth day, nearly finished, nearly
The last two days on the Printrbot were quite challenging. Yesterday I was working on the bridge. Since nothing seems to be right in the BOM regarding screws and nuts, there were no screws to mount the extruder. I had to shorten 4 screws to the right size. And that ...
Printrbot: the third day
During my last post from monday and today I got an answer from the guys from Printrbot. They will send me the missing parts. I also found an ebay seller, that has the right hex nuts for the printer. So I ordered them too. Today I received the hex nuts ...
Printrbot: current progress and missing parts
Yesterday I finished the extruder unit: This is quite a tricky part. You have to rework the printed parts a lot. Be careful, don't drill every hole. There are some holes where the screw has to cut into the plastics. I drilled all of the holes and had to use some ...
Printrbot: my new 3D printer and why you need lot of patience
Some of you might remember the Kickstarter.com campaign Printrbot, a low cost 3D printer. There were some rumors about the projects delays and complications. And when I thought it might would never ship, an email with a tracking number apperared in my email account. This was mid-May. So it took ...
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