Updates from Duben, 2010

  • New printer we have - ShaperCube

    prusajr 23.47 on 11. 4. 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply

    We have new printer and I have to say awesome one. ShaperCube. It’s completly made of Aluminium. You can see few pictures of printer at his creators flickr. Joachim Glauche’s flickr.

    Electronics
    Machine is using Arduino Mega as main board controlling Stepper Boards 1.2 and DC board which is controlling extruder etc.

    Btw. we are first who ever build ShaperCube ;-)

    You can see our timelapse video of building the whole thing.

     
  • Czech (retarded) press about Makerbot at CES

    prusajr 6.31 on 10. 1. 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    Lol, today when I was checking news at my custom Youtube.com homepage I’ve found video from CES about Makerbot from one of our Czech techzines Živě.cz. And it was soo much fun that I’ve almost pissed myself from laught :-D I’ll try to translate it, at least the funniest beginning.

    This, what in fact looks like wooden kit, is actually a wooden kit and its kit for making things. You’ll get box of bricks and you can build your own kit. …

    … interesting thing is, that it’s not a complete product but it is actually kit, you’ll get box of pieces and you have to assemble it by yourself. …

    No word about 3D printer, no word about open source, just lame repeating :-D We are so much doooomed here in Czech Republic …

    Here is how it should look , thank you Wired!

     
  • Heated RepRap print bed MK2

    prusajr 0.02 on 8. 1. 2010 | 5 Permalink | Reply

    Heated print bed insides Building heated print beds is very popular these days, so I want to publish our 2 months findings. You should first read Look ma, no Warping, Nopheads Hot metal and serendipity, Zaggos Canned Heat and Zaggos Raftless. Now we have Heated Print Bed MK2, first design wasn’t as durable as we wanted (sandwich consist of 2pieces of acrylic) and the heat wasn’t spread evenly. (More …)

     
  • Look ma, no WARPING! Heated RepRap print bed

    prusajr 16.57 on 20. 11. 2009 | 7 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: repman, RepRap

    Since we have RepMan (kind of RepRap) 3D printer I was thinking about printing large objets. Of course you start with small things like minimug. But as you start learning how to get good small prints you’ll try something bigger and you will probably see large warping. It’s caused by different temperatures in the object. Professional machines uses heated print chamber to avoid this, but we can’t of course build heated champer since the printer is made from plastic or plexyglass. Great compromise is to build heated print bed. I was inspired by Zaggos work in Pleasant Hardware. But he has MakerBot which has only 10×10cm print bed. RepMan has 4times bigger. I wanted to build my print bed as quick as possible so I used ressistive wire which I have for a while, then some plexyglass and epoxy glue. It build like burger, in three layers 1)Plexyglass 2) ressistive wire + epoxy glue 3) plexyglass. After you do make this you should put it on the straight place, put something heavy and straight on it and leave it for few hours.

    RepMan heated print bed Look ma, no warping Print bed temperature sensor

    Don’t ask me to exact ressistance of the wire etc. I dont know it :-) You just should make sure that whole print bed rig consumes about 45-55 Watts (you can use more for quicker heating, but you can melt the plexy, so be carefull) for this size, for Makerbot should be enough 25-30 Watts.
    I’ve added (dont forget to drill and sand the place for sensor and cable in bottom piece of plexy) temperature sensor which is done by my brother, so I know if it’s warm enough. BTW even plexyglass expands when it’s heated, I’ve had to place some spacers between print bed and lower support plexy contruction. You know, it’s a prototype, but it works :-)

    I’ve tried to print when the bed was about 70°C, its quite enough. But higher temperature could be better, I’ll test it later.

    Big Mendel part

    Here you can se the video from my first printing of „x-carriage-lower_1off“ Mendel part.

     
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