May 8, 2013 | @UR, Design, In the News, Printing
We were visited today by Richmond’s own WTVR senior reporter, Wayne Covil. He interviewed me as part of a story about the 3D printing of guns (see earlier post for background). Bottom-line, current low-cost 3D printers are not quite ready to print guns, but...
Apr 26, 2013 | @UR, Printing
In the video below, I describe some of our recent activity regarding optimizing printing for our Solidoodle 3 3D printer including: printing with ABS using an enclosure (no ducted fan) printing with PLA using a ducted fan (no/open enclosure) using glass plates along...
Mar 20, 2013 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
As mentioned previously, I’m enclosing our Solidoodle 3 printer to try to get better results through minimizing warping and parts not sticking. As a slight aside, the Cubestick on glass is now working very well for sticking. The trick is to wash the glass plate...
Mar 18, 2013 | @UR, Printing
We’ve had some trouble with prints sticking to the print bed over the last year and a half since we acquired our first 3D printer. It’s mostly a matter of choice. It’s not that we want poor adhesion, but we have made the decision to run our...
Mar 1, 2013 | @UR, In the News
Just this week, there were was a newspaper article and a videobyte about UR 3D printing. The first is an article in The Collegian about the new (Solidoodle 3) UR CTLT 3D printer with a focus on Professor Fiona Ross’ class that is using it. Also, the PBS...
Feb 27, 2013 | @UR, Design, In the News, Printing, SketchUp
Update: See updated design and photo of the prototype that can automatically feed at the end of this post (I have not yet tested heating). As much excitement as there is around the 3Doodler kickstarter project, it turns out that there is some prior art vis-à-vis a...
