[QUOTE=Zero-Point;47446547]You could try to modify ink-jet cartridges to spray a bonding resin and use the powdered plastic-resin technique. :v:[/QUOTE]
Sounds intriguing. Definitely not something I'd try for a first printer, but interesting. Got a link to an example, perhaps?
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47446743]Sounds intriguing. Definitely not something I'd try for a first printer, but interesting. Got a link to an example, perhaps?[/QUOTE]
I don't think anyone's made one at-home yet, but I've seen people "hack" ink-jet cartridges to spray liquids other than ink (like conductive fluid, for circuit-board printing) so if you could make a powder depositing system then you could replicate something like this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ-aWFYT_SU[/media]
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47445841]Buy color I mean full color sandstone or RGB/CMYK plastic color mixing. My pipe dream for having a 3D printer is printing amiibo-like figures without having to paint them myself.
The Prusa i3 kit I want has the heated bed, I knew to look for that from reading around before :v:
PrintrBot metal sounds interesting, but I dunno if I'd actually find it as useful as a plastic printer.
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A dual extruder for printing support material in HIPS sounds nice. Is there a way to get that on the Prusa i3?[/QUOTE]
An intermediate solution might be the [URL="http://www.mosaicmanufacturing.com/"]Mosaic product[/URL] (not sure what the final product will be called). It claims to be able to enable multi-color printing from a single extruder for any regular FDM printer. Not color mixing but much cheaper than any sandstone/powder printers.
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;47447807]An intermediate solution might be the [URL="http://www.mosaicmanufacturing.com/"]Mosaic product[/URL] (not sure what the final product will be called). It claims to be able to enable multi-color printing from a single extruder for any regular FDM printer. Not color mixing but much cheaper than any sandstone/powder printers.[/QUOTE]
That looks like exactly what I want [I]except[/I] I think it only takes two filaments as input. If I were to invest money into something like that I'd want at least eight colors :v:
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Though it does look like a relatively simple product. I could replicate that pretty easily, I think. The only issue is I don't know the first thing about programming 3D Printing software/firmware.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47447903]That looks like exactly what I want [I]except[/I] I think it only takes two filaments as input. If I were to invest money into something like that I'd want at least eight colors :v:
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Though it does look like a relatively simple product. I could replicate that pretty easily, I think. The only issue is I don't know the first thing about programming 3D Printing software/firmware.[/QUOTE]
It might not be on their main website at the moment but they sent out [URL="http://info.mosaicmanufacturing.com/introducing-the-palette"]this link[/URL] to email subscribers late last month.
First model appears to be a 4-color machine.
$475 for four colors? Eh I guess I'll look into what 3D printer programming entails at some point down the line.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47450769]$475 for four colors? Eh I guess I'll look into what 3D printer programming entails at some point down the line.[/QUOTE]
Actually, thanks to Garblshield and Arduino, all you need is a slicer that makes G-code the Garbl can interpret and you're set. You'd just have to try and tweak the settings so it can change between extruders.
thinking of getting this prusa:
[url]https://www.3dprintersonlinestore.com/cheap-prusa-i3-kit[/url]
any other reccomendations though?
slic3r in a nutshell
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ROElhbf.png[/t]
do you guys know of a good slicing program other than cura/slic3r? I've got my issues with both of them, so I wondered if there are other programs that I could take a look at.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);47483551]do you guys know of a good slicing program other than cura/slic3r? I've got my issues with both of them, so I wondered if there are other programs that I could take a look at.[/QUOTE]
I've been using Netfabb, mostly for cutting large models down into 12cm^3 chunks. Works pretty good for that at least.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);47483551]do you guys know of a good slicing program other than cura/slic3r? I've got my issues with both of them, so I wondered if there are other programs that I could take a look at.[/QUOTE]
I've heard of one called KISSlicer, but I've never used it so I can't say much for it, but a blog I like seemed to [url=https://solidoodletips.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/slicer-shootout-pt-4/]think relatively highly of it. [/url]
Simplify3d is amazing if you're willing to spend the money on it.
I could never get KISSlicer working.
I gave the 3D printer that we have in our school a try and tried printing a knife
[T]http://i.imgur.com/6fI7kOv.jpg[/T]
It has few holes but it's pretty good in my opinion
Looks like you got a little bit of warping at the end there, I guess it doesn't matter for that particular part though.
[QUOTE=scratch (nl);47483551]do you guys know of a good slicing program other than cura/slic3r? I've got my issues with both of them, so I wondered if there are other programs that I could take a look at.[/QUOTE]
Skeinforge ([url]http://reprap.org/wiki/Skeinforge[/url]) works ok for me.
I just recently had some new gimbals for my headphones printed;
[url=http://imgur.com/h8HDGU5][img]http://i.imgur.com/h8HDGU5l.jpg[/img][/url]
They're Digitech branded Jaycar studio monitor headphones, which are just rebranded Brainwavz HM5 or NVX XPT-100 headphones at a fraction of the cost. The stock gimbals are AWFUL, and after not even 2 months completely disintegrated on me. New arms are insanely good, they're ABS plastic (they also gave me a PLA set for free), and they actually clamp the headphones on my ears better than the stock gimbals ever did... the seal is incredible and now NO external noise gets in.
Man am I happy with this or what, and it's my first 3d print job!
Gotta smooth those out. I could never stand layer lines in my prints if I had a printer of my own and I always yell at people who print something for daily use and don't care about them.
Looks very nice though, did you model the mounts yourself or were they already done somewhere?
[QUOTE=Sobek-;47499722]I just recently had some new gimbals for my headphones printed;
[url=http://imgur.com/h8HDGU5][img]http://i.imgur.com/h8HDGU5l.jpg[/img][/url]
They're Digitech branded Jaycar studio monitor headphones, which are just rebranded Brainwavz HM5 or NVX XPT-100 headphones at a fraction of the cost. The stock gimbals are AWFUL, and after not even 2 months completely disintegrated on me. New arms are insanely good, they're ABS plastic (they also gave me a PLA set for free), and they actually clamp the headphones on my ears better than the stock gimbals ever did... the seal is incredible and now NO external noise gets in.
Man am I happy with this or what, and it's my first 3d print job![/QUOTE]
Fuuuuck I had those exact same headphones that snapped in exactly the same place. I just "fixed" it with shitloads of masking tape though.
And then I tripped on the wire, toppling my joystick and my monitor [I]onto[/I] my drink, spilling it on both and scarring my monitor.
And now I use a wireless pair :v:.
[T]http://puu.sh/h9ego/d4c1becdc3.jpg[/T]
[T]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8757/17079284776_f56b49a6ba_o.jpg[/T]
This is so satisfying, we live in the fucking future.
Printed it, made a sand mould around it, melted the printing out, centrifugally casted it in brass, finished it off with an 80 year old file and a five dollar can of dollar store spray paint. Didn't have the patience to file off the tapping, but i'll get to it. I cast two so i'll save the other one for when i have an angle grinder and some nice car paint.
Oh and if you're wondering what it is, it's the old Prr Keystone, namely the one from the [URL="http://trn.trains.com/~/media/images/railroad-news/news-wire/2014/04/prr-t1-6111.jpg"]T1.[/URL] There's some folks trying to build a new one, and i'm helping out. I modeled the number plate from the drawings and figured i'd make myself a kickass necklace
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;47501324][T]http://puu.sh/h9ego/d4c1becdc3.jpg[/T]
[T]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8757/17079284776_f56b49a6ba_o.jpg[/T]
This is so satisfying, we live in the fucking future.
Printed it, made a sand mould around it, melted the printing out, centrifugally casted it in brass, finished it off with an 80 year old file and a five dollar can of dollar store spray paint. Didn't have the patience to file off the tapping, but i'll get to it. I cast two so i'll save the other one for when i have an angle grinder and some nice car paint.[/QUOTE]
That's a whole hell of a lot better than some of the stuff I did, but I had some pretty big kinks in the process that kept me from getting great quality. I printed a part, cast that part in silicone, used that mold to cast wax that I used for lost wax casting. It had a sort of photocopy of a photocopy thing going on, so it had a lot of defects, but holding a metal object that you created on a computer is just awesome.
Yeah pretty much, i looked at the model while holding the metal casting and found it weird that they're both the same object, but one is entirely abstract. Weird shit
I want to get some moldlay filament so I can create investments flat out from printed parts, but I don't trust the only seller that isn't expensive as shit. I would just try to burn out ABS, but my father (the owner of the kiln I use) doesn't want to burn out ABS inside it because he claims it gums them up. I've heard stories of it leaving residue too, and the last things I need are more defects.
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People like using PLA, but I don't have a fan and I don't think the parts are going to turn out very well without one. I'm considering 3D printing molds instead of parts just to try to eliminate some of the steps, but I haven't gotten around to making them yet, and it restricts the type of geometry I can do.
PLA hates me.
Although I do want to get some of that xray shielding filament, absolutely no use for it though.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;47502043]PLA hates me.
Although I do want to get some of that xray shielding filament, absolutely no use for it though.[/QUOTE]
Unless you just want to print something that's really, really heavy.
I wonder how difficult it is to print...
I've been thinking about getting into 3D printing.
I've been looking at the printrbots, what do you guys think of them?
The wooden one is certainly more attractive to me because of the price point, but do you guys know how good it is for the money?
I know it'd be better to save up more for the Metal one - but I was just wondering if the wooden one is worth the cash.
Are 3d printers at the point yet where you can print detailed things and they look half decent? I always thought it'd be cool to print out 3d models I make of characters from games etc and in a very broad sense make my own figures and paint them
But I don't think that'll be a thing for a long while
[QUOTE='Rain [Amber];47511122']Are 3d printers at the point yet where you can print detailed things and they look half decent? I always thought it'd be cool to print out 3d models I make of characters from games etc and in a very broad sense make my own figures and paint them
But I don't think that'll be a thing for a long while[/QUOTE]
If you're ready to pay for a more expensive one then yes. We have 2 printers at our school. The cheaper one is 1500€ and students can use it but it's not as accurate as the other one, the 2nd costs around 7000€ but it can detailed things pretty well but students cant use it because we might "Break" it
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