Can a Toy Printer Be Made Great?
Now that the bottom end of the 3D printer market has been largely cleared of those garbage “Prusa i3 clone” models which used to infest it a few years ago, …read more Continue reading Can a Toy Printer Be Made Great?
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3D Printer Tuning: an Engineering Approach
[MirageC] is a bit of a contrarian. Instead of taking pictures of 3D printed objects that show them in their best light, he takes pictures that show them at their …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Tuning: an Engineering Approach
Machine Vision Helps You Terminate Failing 3D Print Jobs
If you’re a 3D printer user you’re probably familiar with that dreaded feeling of returning to your printer a few hours after submitting a big job, only to find that …read more Continue reading Machine Vision Helps You Terminate Failing 3D Print Jobs
Folding An Off-The-Shelf 3D Printer
Most 3D printers don’t take up a lot of space, but they can be pretty bulky and awkward to travel with. [Jón Schone] needed a compact folding 3D printer for a secret project on his YouTube channel ProperPrinting, so he decided to modify a Creality Ender 3 Pro to achieve …read more
Feeding Both Filament And Electrons Through A Custom D-Sub Connector
We sometimes forget that 3D printers are just CNC platforms with a hotend attached, and there a whole range of alternative tool heads to use. [Jón Schone] has been doing exactly that, and needed a way to quickly disconnect his hotend completely from his printer, so he 3D printed his …read more
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Build A 3D Printer Workhorse, Not an Amazing Disappointment Machine
3D printers have become incredibly cheap, you can get a fully workable unit for $200 – even without throwing your money down a crowdfunded abyss. Looking at the folks who still buy kits or even build their own 3D printer from scratch, investing far more than those $200 and so many hours of work into a machine you can buy for cheap, the question “Why the heck would you do that?” may justifiably arise.
The answer is simple: DIY 3D printers done right are rugged workhorses. They work every single time, they never break, and even if: they are an …read more
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