Here is the video (and model links) for the exhibit I have showed at the 2020 Virtual East Coast RepRap Festival.
I am just getting started with this project - new files will be updated on this page as I create them.
Parts associated with this project:
Pegboard Hook …
I build an RC boat “from scratch” out of parts I had purchased for an RC car. To learn more, click through and read the article.
An overview of our experience building the SmartDIYs FABOOL Laser DS, and then ripping out all the electronics and replacing them with different parts.
I’ve had a chance to get pretty familiar with the mechanical design of the Printrbot Simple Pro. It is a straightforward and memorable design, and makes great prints. This printer is a classic Brook Drumm - tight clearances and compact spaces are a design goal. Built like a tank and hits the sweet spot between rigidity and portability. I got my hands on a Simple Pro chassis; mechanical parts only. You may have picked up one of these when Brook ran a “rolling stock” sale on the Printrbot store. I wanted to put together electronics for a printer from scratch. This post is not a guide - if you aren’t comfortable starting a “kit” project with only 80% of the materials and knowledge you need to finish, you should not consider a project like this. That said, I found it to be a great learning experience and wanted to share my work here so people knew what parts I sourced and how I approached this project.
There are tons of guides that walk through how to set up a Raspberry Pi. I’ve recently configured multiple devices “from scratch” with OctoPrint and a touchscreen LCD in kiosk mode. Here’s the steps I follow:
I am in the process of assembling and tuning a new printer. This one has a 14:1 geared stepper driving the z-axis.
I ran into a problem where my prints were looking squished, like so:
The white cube on the right is in the right range, dimensionally (20mm^3 …
You can use the G2 board with legacy Printrbot (or other) printers. In most cases, you won’t have to write code or load new firmware to do this, but it will probably require some configuration to get the board running smoothly. This guide documents the settings you may want to change if you are using the G2 board with a printer other than the Simple Pro. This guide is also useful if you’d like to skip the cloud features of the Printrbot Simple Pro and print directly via USB or with OctoPrint.
This is a discussion of how 3D printers work. This article only covers ‘fused filament’ printers - devices that build a 3D object by melting some kind of plastic filament and depositing layers of this plastic onto a build plate. These layers almost immediately cool and solidify into the printed object.
[Updated Feb 24th 2019 with minor updates to start gcode]
[Updated Nov 18th 2018 with minor updates to the end gcode]
[Updated Nov 8th 2018 with feedback from Brook Drumm]
You can easily print with Simple Pro from Cura running on your computer. You can also use Octoprint (I do …
Photos from 2018 Boston 48 Hour Film Project.
Kickoff
A film team