Hardware
WOOF group has spent the last two months researching. engineering, extruding, printing, and dumpster diving for the greater good. WOOF submitted the first 3D printed milk jug boat into the Seafair Milk Carton Derby. Not a simple task, they hacked a 4′ x8′ plasma [...]
For those of you who have never jumped a power supply the article below is written for you. For those of you who have, just use the images for reference. The two wires that will produce voltage are green and purple. Depending on where the circuit is jumped you can get the power [...]
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Minimalism at its best. The printrboard cost $129, comes with the board, a microUSB plug, and the promises of a smoothly running printer. I have run tests on the X,Y and Z axis, brought the extruder well beyond 220C and have no doubts it will exceed expectation on printing. Printrboard- wired up and running (only [...]
We are always saying bad words when it comes to putting the Molex style connectors on stepper motors, end stops, and etc. Many fingers have been pinched. Enter the Molex crimping tool. The cost is $20 at the low end to $200 on the high end. We purchased a lower end model which was available [...]
Matt and his team at Metrix Create Space have been working on something really BIG! In fact, our team and their team have been engaged in a bit of a competition with our big robots. The Metrix crew is in the lead. A hardy congratulations to them! AWESOME! The Metrix crew has an old DynaCNC [...]
This quarter at the UW a team of our students (Patrick Hannan, Jared Knutzen, Nicholas C Lewis, Joy Markham) produced some documentation on the development of a DIY inkjet printer. This was partly in response to the fact that there are no DIY inkjet kits available. There was a kit available from Parallax however it [...]
Folks we are hosted at a University and we have been on break for the past two weeks. Thus, we haven’t really been doing Open3DP things. However, we are back in session now. AdderFab is the combined result of three separate Capstone student design teams over a span of over four years. The original name [...]
One of the best parts of being involved with both new technologies and students is amazing things start to appear before your eyes. Last night one of our Arts/DXArts student teams (Julianna and Kate) checked in. They were interested in being able to build a Mendel or in our case a Clonedel. A long time [...]
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After all of the craziness of last week, it was interesting to listen to the noise about “How horrible it is to make things by molding or casting!” or “The parts can’t be as strong as RP’d parts!”. All good fun. We would like to point out that molding/casting IS one of the fundamental manufacturing [...]