3D Printer Club: Kid-CAD Test
[sc:3dclub-intro] Today we tested some basic CAD instruction out on a fifth grader very much like the kind we hope to see in the 3D printer club that we want to start at the local school. We used TinkerCAD. The…
Category Technology
Information for Maker Faire Attendees
Greetings Maker Faire North Carolina Attendees! It was fun speaking with many of you today. Here is a collection of links to bots and technologies that I spoke about: StickBot (the simple 6-legged walking robot) — the latest version, with schematics…
Mounting a PCB Heatbed (MK1) onto a Reprap 3D Printer
To install the heated print bed for my reprap, I placed the PCB on top of the plywood top print plate (which is slightly larger than the PCB), clamped it in place, and then used the holes in the PCB…
Highly Configurable Wheel (One Wheel To Rule Them All)
I built a framework for robot wheels a while back using OpenSCAD and used it to create a few different wheel styles. I recently decided to combine them all into one massively configurable wheel model, and add a number of…
3D Printed T10 Lamp Shade
Here’s a 3D printed T10 lamp shade that I designed and printed last night. A few weeks ago while searching for LEDs, I noticed an ebay listing for very inexpensive 12V automotive lamps that combine nine bright white LEDs. I…
How to Make an Arc or Wedge in OpenSCAD
OpenSCAD apparently doesn’t have an easy way to make an arc or wedge, or any way to do a partial rotate_extrude. This presented a problem when I started to design my Parametric Encoder Wheel, because in order for it to…
New Image Plastics Measurements
I received several filament samples from New Image Plastics in Ohio, ranging in length from about 1-4 feet. Here are the measurements I took from various points on each strand. I measured all the way around the filament and recorded…
Repraps for Education Survey
We’ve released a brief, 3-minute and 7-question anonymous survey about repraps and educations with the goal of determining the level of community support there will be for a school club curriculum. The survey will be advertised available here and in…
Jacob’s Beyblade-Compatible Spinning Top
[sc:picstyle ] This is a custom modular Beyblade launcher-compatible spinning top, designed by Jacob (7). He says, “It’s awesome!” [sc:pics folder=”things/Beyblade” l=”beyblade.JPG” r=”m-heart_bey_blade_display_large.jpg”] Instructions Use a 3M metric machine screw with washer through this, and then through one of the…
How to Reverse (Invert) a Reprap Axis in Sprinter
When I wired up my Reprap and started printing, I noticed that all my prints were mirrored along the Y axis — I’d set it up with the end stop at the front and configured it so that the print…