by Jon Bondy | Apr 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
I took a week off, for my sanity, and spent a lot of the time printing objects from Thingiverse. This Klein Bottle is fun Here is a working differential: This rook has been printed by thousands of people (but few of them as large as this...
by Jon Bondy | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
I decided to try to print a mold in which I could cast a two-part silicone rubber. I chose the octopus model that so many people print off of Thingiverse. At first, I simply subtracted the octopus STL from a block, using OpenSCAD. The print which resulted was a...
by Jon Bondy | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
I joined the 3DHubs web site, so now you can order prints from me online: http://www.3dhubs.com/burlington/hubs/jon/3dprint
by Jon Bondy | Mar 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Our local 3D printing shop likes MeshMixer, so I decided to give it a try. A new version of MeshMixer was just made available about a week ago. AutoDesk is trying to position MeshMixer (MM) as the single application that you will need to create 3D models, modify 3D...
by Jon Bondy | Jan 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday, I attended a build event at Blu-Bin, the 3D printer store in Burlington Vermont. About 5 of us purchased Rostock Max kits from SeeMeCNC, and built them. Folks from SeeMeCNC were there to help, and had performed more than half of the assembly before we...
by Jon Bondy | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
I now have about 8 empty 1 kg filament spools. While it is possible to transfer filament from coils to spools by spinning the filament off of the coils and onto the spools, that operation seems needlessly difficult; it is especially difficult with 3 mm filament,...