Tootfinder

First, I love this project and want to build it.
However, I'm going to go 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' on calling it open source and how the maker projects and #3Dprinting may be unintentionally damaging the general understanding of #OpenSource.
a) the model is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0…

🏗️ Students build low-cost cold spray metal 3D printer prototype
#3dprinting

Students build low-cost cold spray metal 3D printer prototype
A team of Rice University students has developed a cold spray metal 3D printing device that relies on pressure and velocity rather than temperature to create a metal part. Their work could help expand the repertoire of metal additive manufacturing techniques, bringing down cost and enhancing the quality of making or repairing one-off complex metal parts.

#3DPrinting is not only kinda expensive but it is also heavy. I just got to the part of realizing the printer with the spool is like 20 lbs. And this enclosure is going to be like another 15 lbs. and it is also the size of a small table. So now I have to find room for this beast. It's not a problem, just a consideration.

We're currently having the worst experience with Overture matte PLA at work. Warps like crazy, bad bed adhesion, inconsistent extrusion, etc.
Not recommended. 👎
#3DPrinting

"#Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and now display a message warning of an alleged security flaw in the company’s systems." #3dprinting

Anycubic users say their 3D printers were hacked to warn of a security flaw | TechCrunch
Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and now display a message warning of an alleged security flaw in the company's

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could print a basketball, they didn't stop to think whether they should print a basketball. #3dprinting

As always with 3D printing, it's important to get the 1st layer right for the success of the print. Printing a stack in beech wood this time. #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

Random thought: are the 58 “Winnie the Pooh” models accessible on the China version of Bambu’s “Maker World” site? #3DPrinting #Bambu #geopolitics

This is pretty cool! Making a Macintosh Studio
#3DPrinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuEziDm9gQw

Anyone have an idea how to register the 'model/step' mime type (for #3dPrinting .step files) in :nixos: #NixOS? 'xdg-mime query filetype file.step' sees it as text/plain and :prusaslicer: #PrusaSlicer

Testing a 3D printed printing registration system for doing multicolor relief prints today…
#3Dprinting #printMaking #DIY

Common, admit it: they look cute. 3D printed some beer crates for my AA and AAA batteries. 😆 #3Dprinting #thingiverse #Prusa

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could print a basketball, they didn't stop to think whether they should print a basketball. #3dprinting

Needed to mount a patch panel outside of a rack and had some weird mounting constrains.
#3dPrinting to the rescue. Model tool 15 minutes in OpenSCAD, each bracket was less than 20 minutes to print.

Circular wave interference patterns. Inspired by a single-drop model:
https://twitter.com/Thangs3D/status/1772990127343566916
Now with Printables link for downloading / printing:

Thangs (@Thangs3D) on X
This water drop tray from @gazzaladradesig has been popular this week and for good reason! Not only is it stylish, but it also is very functional 😎 Model page: https://t.co/SA2M1GyVzl #3DPrinting

Moin 🥚! #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

And now onto joinery. I'm guessing this would be hard to do in wood but in plastic it's easy. And strong. #woodworking #furniture #3DPrinting

Working on a complaint latch for a cable organizer project. Printed in normal PLA and designed in #OpenSCAD. I need to adjust the parameters for size and thickness but the test works first-try.
#3dPrinting

This company is in Madison, Wisconsin... anyone know anything about them?
➡️ #3Dprinting

micronics

Had to happen eventually....
#3BladedUgrinsky #TruncatedOctahedron #3DPrinting

I wish #SolveSpace had a mirroring operation...
But with some constraints one can fake the mirroring with the rotate-and-copy functionality.
#3dPrinting #CAD

Printed this door hook to make use of the back of some doors #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck Model:

It's cool how there is a kind of "grain" you get with these filament printers. Maybe this is a feature not a bug. #3DPrinting #WoodGrain #Woodworking

Due to travel and things I hadn’t done any #3dPrinting for two weeks.
Anyone want to guess what I’m doing today?
(Aside from printing too fast and under extruding in the corners 😉)

Working on a #3dPrinting project with 8x3mm neodymium magnets. I ordered a ton in late 2020 and got low this weekend, so I ordered more.
I’ve created models for the specific batch and before I used my last two old magnets, I decided to just measure one vs the new.
Pretty surprised to see such a big difference. My old ones were quite undersized (13%), the new ones definitely won’t fi…

It's cool how there is a kind of "grain" you get with these filament printers. Maybe this is a feature not a bug. #3DPrinting #WoodGrain #Woodworking

First act for the new vacuum cleaner: pimp with the 3D-Printer #3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck
Model:

Made an articulated arm for the #HoneycombStorageWall #Screwiverse to position our #3dPrinting webcam at the necessarily weird angle:

I don't trust many #3dPrinting YouTubers, but I do trust Igor.
He did a pretty comprehensive #Sovol SV08 review this morning. I'm still excited to get mine (ordered, no shipping info yet).
Does it look like Bambu-level plug and play? No. But I feel pretty comfortable fixing most of…

Wow. That totally worked. I made a new prototype box with a different tongue/groove system and it works. It won't stay together, but I was able to bang out an idea in Fusion 360 pretty quick and this print only took 2.5 hr. This one is 8cm wide, 6cm deep, 4cm tall. #Fusion360 #3DPrinting

This simple kind of thread has many advanges for #3dprinting:
· easy to model in many #CAD programs: just an off-center circle that's rotated while extruding
· easy to print: consistent, low overhangs everywhere, smooth surface without sharp edges
· prints well horizontally (with a b…

It’s a holiday here to day, so I’m going small scale production #3dPrinting on these parts. Back to back, multiple printers.
They’re only about 13g of filament so it’s great to use up the ends of spools.
Any guesses on their use?

3D printed filament sizes are the new pixels. I guess I'm going to have to scale this up to make the mortises and tenons work. #3DPrinting #ProductDesign #Prusa

I wrote up a post about designing a 3D printed jig for assembling 3D printed parts.
➡️ #3Dprinting

Pen Holder Assembly Jig
3D printing jigs to assemble 3D printed things...

Clever z-wobble solution. I'd love to know how this tests out vs some of the other (more complicated) solutions.
#3dPrinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhn0S28OuU…

Ok fine. The holes for the tenons didn't work so this is taped together. Tomorrow we will try making the whole thing larger. But the dimensions came out as predicted. #3DPrinting #Prusa #Fusion360

Okay I have to say having thumbnails for all #3dPrinting / #CAD files is an immense help and very satisfying, especially when drag'n'dropping files around or into :prusaslicer: #PrusaSlicer for exa…

Clever z-wobble solution. I'd love to know how this tests out vs some of the other (more complicated) solutions.
#3dPrinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhn0S28OuU…

It's happening. Taking a 3D model and visualizing inside a game engine. But also being able to produce a real world object. It's a crazy idea, but: it is possible. #3DPrinting #VR #AR

Adventures in over-engineering, pegboard, #3dPrinting, and #OpenSCAD !
I use sockets semi-regularly, but always somewhere not in my shop. So, I wanted a thing that I could pegboard mount them and take them on-the-go. To top it off, my set has a weird OD. Time to design!
I decided I wante…

Finally 🤩
#Printables #Prusa #3DPrinting

Just designed a stackable truncated octahedron container, based around my fractal truncated octahedron sphere.
https://www.printables.com/model/799264-stacking-fractal-octahedron-bowl

Adventures in over-engineering, pegboard, #3dPrinting, and #OpenSCAD !
I use sockets semi-regularly, but always somewhere not in my shop. So, I wanted a thing that I could pegboard mount them and take them on-the-go. To top it off, my set has a weird OD. Time to design!
I decided I wante…

Hey #3dPrinting folks!
I went to #FOSSY 2023 in Portland and it was a blast. They are currently accepting track pitches for 2024 (Aug 1-4).
I'd love to put together a track on Open Source and 3D: the track could have sessions on stuff like printer firmware, OSS CAD/modelling, slicers, m…

So.. I snagged an early bird #Sovol SV08.
It ticked enough of my #3dPrinting boxes. We’ll see how it goes!

Definitely hard to believe that this is done with #3dPrinting.
Thanks at @… for putting this on Printables!

And there it is. I had this wild idea on Monday, now I have a physical object. I learned Fusion 360 and 3D printing this week. Now I can make furniture. The front of this nightstand is a design made in Illustrator, and it locks into the drawer itself. If you want a different handle, there is a swapping system. The nightstand can be broken down into parts for shipping. Next stop: larger prototypes. #3DPrinting

#3dPrinting at a jaunty angle to avoid needing supports.

And there it is. I had this wild idea on Monday, now I have a physical object. I learned Fusion 360 and 3D printing this week. Now I can make furniture. The front of this nightstand is a design made in Illustrator, and it locks into the drawer itself. If you want a different handle, there is a swapping system. The nightstand can be broken down into parts for shipping. Next stop: larger prototypes. #3DPrinting

Okay. I'm going bonkers on my #3dPrinting / #Klipper experiment.
Goal: to wirelessly connect a printer mainboard to a Linux machine running the host (Klippy) with Bluetooth.
I'm using an HC-05 Bluetooth Module. This module basically accepts UART and sends it over BT.
On the…

It’s done! My new caliper have a home on the pegboard.
I wanted something that fit snugly around the thumbwheel.
#3dPrinting

Testing out a new roll of #3dPrinting filament. PolyTerra “Army Blue”
It’s not advertised as matte but it sure looks like.
#FilamentReviews

I had an idea for a talk and I can't decide if it's awful or delightful.
Would you go to a talk at a tech conference entitled:
"Carly Rae Jepsen, #3DPrinting, and the future of #OpenSource"
(CRJ would not be played during said talk to preserve sanity)

Should I pick up a *free* Stratsys 3D printer?
It’s 14 years old. I know it’s locked down, probably worn out and not as good as a modern sub-$500 resin printer.
But man, it was such an expensive, rare thing when new.
#3dPrinting

The vibe of 3D printing with filaments reminds me of old hard drives defragging. #PC #Windows #Defragment #3DPrinting