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, […]
I got some feedback that people might be interested in knowing the specs and details about the 3D printer I got. I covered it briefly in my first post and linked it to the product page but apparently, people want to hear it from me. I’m waiting for a print of an overly-complicated, probably not […]
Pre-ramble This is a new thing – Short take – that I will do from time to time. Short takes will be in-depth discussions on master-level topics of Molecular Biology and Quantum Mechanics. No, just kidding they will be short single topic posts. Unless you’re interested in the latter, let me know in the comments. […]
This isn’t really about the 3D printing but I suppose it is related. I realized that I needed to do something to promote my site. I’m really enthusiastic about my blog because I finally have something to blog about. I tried a things in the past, just posting funning things about current events, I posted […]
Web Cam Positioner – Ball Joint At the end of my last post I mentioned I was already printing a ball joint. It’s not very big, it’s only intended to hold a web cam after all, so the print finished before I tucked in for the night. First I’d like to note that it printed […]
OK, you ask yourself. Why would I want to do this? Why would I want to add texture to the outside of a tube or more accurately a cylider with a hole in it? Well, I’m goin got tell you. After I created my initial ball joint design for my first 3D printing project, I […]
Fusion 360 is really powerful, I’m glad I decided to go with it in spite of the steep learning curve. It creates beautiful drawings and has so many features, amazing features, the best features, features only found in ‘Merica! But seriously, awesome features. The one I’m going to go over here is the thread feature. […]