Category Archives: 3D Printing

Turn Scrap into Filament

Posted on January 25, 2013 by e8johan

One of the problems when 3D printing is the cost of filament. Especially since you tend to improve designs incrementally and end up with lots of intermediate step test prints that you need to scrap. The Filabot team wants to … Continue reading →

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The Next Level of Home 3D Printing

Posted on October 15, 2012 by e8johan

The hobbyist 3D printer prints using a thin stream of molten plasting. By adding layer upon layer, a 3D object is created. The big boys don’t do this because of problems with resolution, overhangs, etc. Now, the people at formlabs … Continue reading →

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Portable 3D Printing

Posted on October 5, 2012 by e8johan

The Ben Heck Show had an episode on creating a portable 3D printer. The idea is to fit an entire 3D printer into a suitcase for bringing to fairs and such. The video is a nice guide to the bits … Continue reading →

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Printing at Home

Posted on April 18, 2012 by e8johan

If you would have asked me two years ago if I’d have a cheap, reliable 3D printer at home, I would have laughed. And yet, here I am, waiting for a print to finish. The printer in itself, a Huxley … Continue reading →

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PLA and Temperatures

Posted on January 25, 2012 by e8johan

The eMaker Huxley 3D printer comes with a roll of while PLA from Faberdashery. A material that is new to me (I’ve only printed ABS before). PLA operates at a cooler temperature, but it requires a phase change (from solid … Continue reading →

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EMaker Huxley Wiring

Posted on January 16, 2012 by e8johan

I’ve finally found the time to wire up my EMaker Huxley 3D printer. Let me summarize the experience – trust the images, not the words, sometimes. At other times, the instructions explicitly states that the image is wrong. Generally, the … Continue reading →

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eMaker Huxley – Soldering

Posted on December 21, 2011 by e8johan

The work on assembling the eMaker Huxley 3D printer has been slowed down by other commitments, but now things are moving again. After some five hours of soldering (over several nights) the electronics are fully assembled. When buying the kit, … Continue reading →

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Printing Tangible Objects

Posted on December 19, 2011 by e8johan

I’ve been in contact with a researcher working with tangible user interfaces, TUIs. As a part of his thesis work, he needed handles for his end users to interact with. These handles where printed using a MakerBot. Here is Allen’s … Continue reading →

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Summarizing 3D Printing

Posted on November 2, 2011 by e8johan

Over the last weeks, we have been looking at 3D printing. From the origins in the RepRap project, through various commercially available kits. We’ve also been looking at the work flow involved, as well as the tools and sites.

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Finding Models

Posted on October 26, 2011 by e8johan

The site Thingiverse is a great source for 3D printable models – and open source designs in general. The site is run by MakerBot Industries, but the contents is in no way tied to the MakerBot 3D Printer. Instead, the … Continue reading →

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