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My First 3D project – part 4 – Hold me down

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 […]

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My first 3D project – “Disneyland is fun. This is not fun.”

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 […]

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Fusion 360 – 3D Print option

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, […]

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Short Takes – First impressions of the Biqu B1

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 […]

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My first 3D project – Part 1 – Web Cam Positioner

Preamble (or is it Pre Ramble) I’m experimenting with the format of my blog entries. I want it to be usable and consistent and if at all possible useful, educational and interesting and contribute to ending hunger and creating a lasting world peace but I’d be happy with interesting. I think a section approach is […]

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3D printing

My new Hobby

I’m starting a new hobby. Technically, I suppose, I already did. I recently purchased a 3D printer. I originally thought all printers were 3 dimensional so I had to see what the difference was. I felt kind of stupid when I found out it printed 3 dimensional objects … and is itself (here I go […]