Collaborate Disseminate
In a video uploaded on June 8, Dutch YouTuber Sten, a Lego devotee who runs the Creative Mindstorms channel on the social media platform, chronicles the creation of the Pixelbot 3000, from building its mechanism to ‘printing’ the final product.Continue… Continue reading Pixelbot 3000: A robot ‘printer’ made entirely out of Lego
You’ve no doubt noticed by now that while some links are gold and/or bold, most links out there are blue, especially on web pages of yore. But why? the TL;DR …read more Continue reading So, Why Are Hyperlinks Blue, Anyway?
Lots of solutions have been proposed and enacted for multi-color and multi-material 3D printing, from color mixing in the nozzle to scripts requiring manual filament change. A solution proposed fairly early on was to manually splice the filament together, making a custom spool. The printer would print as normal, but the filament would change color. This worked pretty well, but it was tedious and it wasn’t entirely possible to control where the color change happened on the model.
You’ll find some examples of the more successful manual splicing hacks in the pictures below. Scroll down a bit further to find …read more
Continue reading Mosaic Palette: Single Extruder Multi-Color and Multi-Material 3D Printing
Adjusting to the physical presence of a robot is the easy bit. It’s the feelings we develop about them that are more problematic. Continue reading The One-Armed Robot That Will Look After Me Until I Die