If you’ve been to my site before then you may have read how I’m ashamed of my 3D printer and keep it in a closet where all shameful 3D printers and children should be kept. But don’t tell child services I said that, they take this kind of thing very seriously and they may take […]
This morning was beautiful. My wife and I got up early and took the dogs to the park so they could run around and chase the bunnies and dear and whatever else scurries around the forest. The sun was shining and the sky was clear and the fruit trees are starting to bloom, so I […]
This post has been a long while coming. I actually finished this quite some time ago but got busy with other things, work, binge-watching anime shows on Hulu, and building a wireless Arduino-based module for controlling a high-watt LED module I intend to use to provide light to the web camera pointed at the printer. […]
This post took a bit longer to get done because I took a bit longer to do it. Wait, that wasn’t helpful. Anyway, I tried something I was pretty sure wouldn’t work and didn’t. I hate being right all the time. Then, in spite of being tired, I rushed to get something simple together and […]
Wow … um, so I wrote the original draft of this post about 3 weeks ago. I intended to clean it up and post it within a couple of days of finishing my camera mount project but work got busy, I have a new manager who expects me to work. I know, what’s up with […]
The title is a reference to a previous post My first 3D project – “Disneyland is fun. This is not fun” where I vented my frustrations at problems I was having. Things have not improved much over the last few days. I started having print issues. Prints would fail. They wouldn’t adhere to the bed, […]
Two short posts in one day, lucky you, my occasional reader. So, this morning I complained that my ball joint was a bust. I mean, yes it worked, but more like a 1984 Yugo than something useful. So I worked on a new design, a more traditional hinge, but I still wanted it to swivel […]
Self-delusion. Crash. The title is a quote from my daughter, when she was 5, in a canoe, in a river, in Hawaii. We were going to paddle up this river to a waterfall or some beautiful spot at the very least. My wife and I hadn’t been canoeing in ages and were having some issues […]
This may seem a little redundant as I did a post on threads but this can be thought of as a follow on to my original post. Fusion 360 has a great feature where it will add threads to a round body, either the outside of a cylinder or the inside of a hole through […]
When I was exporting a model the other night I noticed an option on the File menu labeled 3D Print. OK, you have my attention. I selected it and got a dialog with options for sending an object to a slicer program or save as an STL file. By selecting Send to 3D Print Utility, […]