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Major wood FDM printing breakthrough !
Extremely efficient wood 3D printing systemThis is incredible...No need for a hot bed, no issue with massive overhangs, no stringing at all. No retraction, grinding nor feeding issues, not even noise,...
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Auto shutoff at end of print
Kill your 3D printer when it gets lazy !I could not say it better than Daid, that headline should grab attention.Given the heat a 3D printer can generate, even when idle, I would better kill it than...
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Short belt tensioner for NEMA 17 stepper motors
How to tension the Ultimaker short belts once for all?Upside version of the tensionerThe short belts that drive the main rods from the X and Y steppers must always be kept tight. Otherwise the print...
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Review: what materials can be 3D printed?
Mixed wood and bioplastic (PLA)What materials to 3D-print ?Every once a while I'm being asked about it, so here is a post on the many materials that can be 3D-printed at home.It is not complete and...
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How fine can an Ultimaker print?
Ultimaker impressive quality at 0.075 mm layer heightI printed one famous treefrog on my Ultimaker for a friend and realized I forgot to speak so far about the overall quality you can reach with an...
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Molding and casting with a 3D printer
Printing a mold and/or lost wax castingOr how 3D printer also opens the way to semi-industrial homemade objects beyond artistic sculptures!Indeed, a 3D printer can be used indirectly, to print a mold...
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How to run a Python Cura plugin without Cura?
Here is a geekier post about how to tweak Cura plugins and convert them to standalone Python scripts that post-process your g-code without Cura nor Skeinforge.After I designed and used my wood gradient...
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Which hobbed bolt for a filament feeder? My home made one!
Driving the filament with hobbed / knurled boltsMy quite efficient hobbed bolt :)As all owners of 3D printers know, one item of utmost importance is the so-called "hobbed bolt", "knurled bolt" or...
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What cannot be 3D printed? Time to debunk some myths!
General 3D printing misinformation: review of facts and fiction!Each technology has some fundamental limitations, and 3D printing is no exception.As soon as I owned and wrote about 3D printers, people...
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Rollerstruder: a filament feeder / driver / extruder
The rollerstruder filament drive system on an UltimakerAlmost one year ago I got rid of the plywood Ultimaker filament drive mechanism. It is an extremely important part of the FDM process as it pushes...
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Copyrights and 3D printable objects: a forthcoming war!Free and customizable GoPro-compatible mounts:not illegal because I designed them! Still, would GoProappreciate it when they would charge $30+ for...
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3D printing with cheap Nylon trimmer line/string
Is filament quality so important after all?I heard that Trimming line was one of the many materials that was experimented with a 3D printer (check my review), but this time I tried by myself.Really,...
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3D printing with a smaller nozzle diameter
Is it worth to use a smaller nozzle on a 3D printer?For sure, a smaller nozzle produces finer details,but how tricky and troublesome it can be !I changed my hot end after my experiments with cheap...
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No slipping, no grinding: not always a good thing!
Let your filament slip, your bowden tube pop up... or break something !If the filament cannot slip nor be ground a bit,excessive pressure has to "break" something anyway.Now for sure, and I can prove...
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Extremely fat extrusion with a 1 mm nozzle
Going "nuts" and 3D printing with a 1.0+ mm nozzle!A ridiculously big 1.1mm nozzle make it flow like hell !After some testing with a 0.3 mm nozzle, I really had to try and post my quick and dirty tests...
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Make it yourself: it can be better than what the industry sells you!
I got one interesting and somehow abrupt remark related to my hobbed bolt. The idea was that it was both difficult, and may be ridiculous to make one's own crappy part nowadays, while you could buy...
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Help yourself: compatible 3D printer parts that are easier to swap!
Why would I ever re-design a working part of a printer?It does look robust, but hard to disassemble! (Escher)Most of customers and users do not tinker with their 3D printer. After all they paid for a...
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A rant: open or closed, you get what you pay for.
A rant: open or closed, you get what you pay for.I got "stimulated" again by a feedback on my wooden patterns related to the Python script I posted on thingiverse.Here is the request (which I must say...
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Fixes and howto for the DIY Fabscan 3D scanner
The fabscan is cheap... and buggy, but it can be made to work.In its state, I would recommend it only to tinkerers, or aftera few improvements (easy to make since it is opensource).For my curiosity, I...
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How to 3D print nylon and trimmer line reliably: do not dry it too much and...
How to 3D print Nylon reliably, cleanly and hassle-free.A well-printed and robust dual-head Nylon mount (check it here).Nylon is flexible, slippery and incredibly tough when it is printed correctly.For...
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