Collaborate Disseminate
In the age of business Zoom rooms, having a crisp webcam is key for introducing fellow executives to your pet cat. Unfortunately, quality webcams are out of stock and building …read more Continue reading A Pi USB Webcam That Was Born to Boot Quick
When it comes to toolchanging 3D printers, idle nozzles tend to drool. Cleaning out that nozzle goo, though, is critical before switching them into use. And since switching nozzles can …read more Continue reading Toolchanging Printers Get a Nozzle Hanky Like No Other
As you get ready to pop the hood of your RC car to drop in a motor upgrade, have you ever wondered how much torque you’re getting from these small …read more Continue reading Sanity Check your Engines with this Dynamometer
For all of us fascinated with 3D printing, it’s easy to forget that 3D printer jams are an extra dimension of frustration to handle. Not to mention that our systems …read more Continue reading Removable Extruder Pulls Out the Stops on Features
I fell in love with cable driven mechanisms a few years ago and put together some of my first mechanical tentacles to celebrate. But only after playing with them did I start to understand the principles that made them work. …read more
Continue reading Cable Mechanism Maths: Designing Against the Capstan Equation
I fell in love with cable driven mechanisms a few years ago and put together some of my first mechanical tentacles to celebrate. But only after playing with them did I start to understand the principles that made them work. …read more
Continue reading Cable Mechanism Maths: Designing Against the Capstan Equation
It seems as though we still can’t hit the ceiling on better control schemes for 3D Printers. Input Shaping is the latest technique to land on our radar, a form of resonance compensation that all but eliminates the ghosting (aka: vertical ringing) artifacts we see on the walls of printed …read more
Continue reading Control Theory Spellcasting Banishes the 3D Printing Ghosts
Even when we share the design files for open source hardware, the step between digital files and a real-world mechatronics widget is still a big one. That’s why I set off on a personal vendetta to find ways to make that transfer step easier for newcomers to an open source …read more
Even a decade later, homebrew 3D printing still doesn’t stop when it comes to mechanical improvements. These last few months have been especially kind to lightweight direct-drive extruders, and [lorinczroby’s] Orbiter Extruder might just set a paradigm for a new kind of direct drive extruder that’s especially lightweight.
Weighing in …read more
Continue reading A Featherweight Direct Drive Extruder in a Class of Its Own
When the slicer software for a 3D printer model files into GCode, it’s essentially creating a sequential list of connected line segments, organized by layer. But when the features of the original model are dense, or when the model is representing small curves, slicers end up creating a proliferation of …read more
Continue reading This GCode Post-Processor Squeezes Lines into Arcs