Published at: 11:01 am - Sunday January 30 2011
Finally, the trivial dock I really wanted for the phone, but no one was offering. It’s pretty trivial, but it’s perfect. It fits the phone in a normal case (the rubber ones or the seidio hard ones) and allows you to still plug it in etc. If anyone is interested, I could potentially be persuaded […]
Published at: 10:01 am - Sunday January 23 2011
Getting the 3D printer completely calibrated and functioning properly is certainly a lesson in patience. Some more prints I’ve managed: This first one is a failed whistle, apparently some issue in skeinforge causes it to align to 0,0 even with multiply off and thus some objects cause it to hit the x-opto. This then skews […]
Published at: 09:01 am - Sunday January 16 2011
Thanks to ordering from a american supplier (You can find him if you search for reifsnyderb) I finally have a working mendel. Much effort into tuning and calibrating will now be needed! I got my first sample prints last night: Sample Prints A few more (all repsnapper) Video With any luck someday I’ll have a […]
Published at: 05:12 pm - Friday December 24 2010
I’ve considered getting a mendel or makerbot for quite some time and back in October finally made the jump and paid over $1,100 for a complete mendel kit from mendel-parts.com. Of course at the time he had listed that it would be around a 5-6 week wait for printed parts. Little did I know… Problems […]