Monthly Archives: April 2011

X-Y Lowrider pt. 3: In which I am not going for speed….

I am still printing parts for the lowrider. Granted, I haven’t been printing every day, but the prints do take a long time. Part 08 took almost four hours. However, the parts are coming out beautifully, so its worth it. … Continue reading →

X-Y Lowrider pt. 2: Problems

After several hours of printing, I notices that the edge of one of my parts had curled up by about 3mm. This is a problem for two reasons: 1) Tolerance of the finished part and 2) PLA is dimensionally stable … Continue reading →

X-Y Lowrider pt. 1 : Beginnings

I’ve decided to print an x-y lowrider. So I re-calibrated skeinforge, and began printing. Unfortunately, the black PLA is very difficult to photograph. That is part 18, printed at 0.20mm layer height with nearly completely solid infill. It took about … Continue reading →

Close-Up

With the arrival of two pounds of PLA from Ultimachine, I’ve been printing everything I can get my hands on. Yesterday, this was Kepler’s Caterpillar Robot. I the interest of awesomeness, I decided to see how close I could get … Continue reading →

New PLAstic

I ran out of ABS yesterday. I cut it a bit close, too. And after printing two sets of cube gears, the fumes from all the plastic had gotten quite bad. My ventilation fan just couldn’t keep up. I’d heard … Continue reading →