General details on the design: Theoretical resolution is less than 25 microns Theoretical speeds in excess of 500mm/s No linear rails – 28 cheap 608 bearings 12 unique plastic pieces (none need support) Printable on a 150x150mm machine
Category Archives: 3d Printing
3D Printing with wax
I have always wondered if it was possible to 3d Print with wax. IT IS and the following video demonstrates step by step how it’s being done.
Kickstarter – Kossel Pro 3D Printer – We will be shipping the Australian and New Zealand pledges.
We are happy to announce that we will be helping Terence from OpenbeamUSA.com to ship his Australia / New Zealand pledges for his Kossel Pro Kit Kickstarter.
Delta 3D Printer with Auto-Bed Alignment – Kossel Pro now on Kickstarter.com
Very exciting!!! This is the last week of the Kossel Pro – Kickstarter campaign. (PLEASE SUPPORT THEIR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN AS THEY ARE BIG CONTRIBUTORS TO THE OPEN-SOURCE COMMUNITY) Breaking news is that they are adding automated bed detection and leveling to the machines(Auto print platform calibration). Have a look at demo video of it in … Read More →
OpenBeam Kossel Pro
OpenBeam Kossel Pro – A new type of 3D Printer Terence has hand-picked an amazing team for his second Kickstarter adventure… The list is as follows: Terence Tam (Leader of the pack) – Openbeam Aluminium extrusion. Amazingly versatile and reusable. Matthew Wilson – Brainwave All in one electronics board for 3d Printers. Made in Seattle,USA … Read More →
Micro Sized 3D Printing at 15 microns
A Japanese company has built a 3D printer that is producing amazingly small items. (It’s called the Unirapid 3) It is a resin based printing machine so it’s not an entry-level machine but if this a taste of the future to come, then I am pleased with the way things are going. Below are some of the … Read More →
3D Printers – Making your own Printer Nozzle – 0.20mm
Jerrill Johnson is an excellent example of what a determined maker can achieve. In the video below he demonstrates how he makes 3d Printer Nozzles from Acorn nuts. He uses a drill, Dremel rotary tool ,very fine drill bits and a few loose bits to make the parts. Jerrill has also added his custom tools to Thingiverse so you can print them off … Read More →
3D Printing – Finishing printed items making them look like they were injection-molded.
3D Printing is getting better and better all the time but we are still not at the details level most people would want. Neil Underwood has developed a process that works better than the usual “dunk it in the acetone bath” method. By the way this only works on ABS parts.. 😉
Morgan Reprap makes its first print. (SCARA 3D Printer)
Following up from our earlier post about Quentin Harley’s SCARA 3d Printer , we finally have some footage of it actually printing. The design is totally different from the normal Cartesian based printers and might just be the next big thing… Quentin also added a post on how to Calibrate the Morgan Reprap – SCARA 3d Printer. A copy of … Read More →
