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HD Magnet Coat Hook
So I needed a coat hook at work and I have a metal filing cabinet near by. I decided to use a HD neodymium I have laying around and some quick 3D design. Prest-O Change-O … Coat hook!!
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large crayon sharpener for the thingiverse
I am not sure why there is not a large crayon sharpener (up until now) on the thingiverse. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:273589 I obviously have the need for one so I designed and printed it. I am...
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Bi-Fold Door Lock
How do you lock a bi-fold door so a 2 year old cant get in? You search the thingiverse and print what you find. Duh!! This is what I found: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:263534 it was close but...
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Evolution of a design
How do you do design when you are unsure of what the final product looks like? In a word (or two or an acronym and a word or whatever) “3D printer” The problem: Child safety locks for drawers are...
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Desk fan – Prototype 1
I have always wanted to make an electric motor from scratch and I finally got started. Here is the first prototype that I came up with. (Sorry the video is rotated apparently wordpress cant rotate a...
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Trilobular Screws for Printed parts
I was tired of taping holes in the prints that I was making so I decided to go out and get some self taping screws. I did some research and came across these...
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Busy Busy Busy
Been a while since I posted but I have been busy. My printer has been busy also. These are just some of the recent part I have been printing. I got the largest order I have ever had from makexyz. I...
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Web Enabled Temperature and Humidity Using Spark Core
I posted a while ago about the kick starter I backed the Spark Core. I finally got around to making it useful. Stick with me this is a long post. The Problem: Over the last few months one of my...
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Sensor Data
Here is a graph of the sensor data I collected with the sensor in the box. The battery only lasted about 46 hours. I would consider this the worst case for the battery usage since I was not doing...
View ArticleSpark Core Data to Google Docs from Raspberry Pi
If you read my previous post you can see I was using powershell to write data to a CSV file locally on my PC. This was not a great solution because my PC had to be running at all times in order to get...
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Sensor Data – Part 2
So I have been neglecting my temperature and humidity sensor. I haven’t had it in my filament box because the battery does not last long enough and it occasionally hangs up. I am attempting to...
View ArticleSensor Data – Troubleshooting 1
Well that did not take long. I got my fist failure with the LED status indicators and only the green light is lit which narrows it down to only one line; “DHT22.acquire();” Now I need to dig deeper...
View ArticleBest thing I have found on wikipedia so far
Erg: An erg is approximately the amount of work done (or energy consumed) by one common house fly performing one “push up”, the leg-bending dip that brings its mouth to the surface on which it stands...
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Fuse – Welding filament clamp for 3D printer
Back in July I back a project https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fuse-welding-filament-clamp-for-3d-printers. This looked like a neat idea. Basically it has a heater in the center of a Teflon block...
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LED lights – Auto off after 0-3 minutes – Update 1 of 2
I have a two year old and she likes to play inside one of the kitchen cabinets. I would imagine that it gets dark in there when she closed the door, so I decided to puts some lights in there. Being a...
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Poor Mans Dual Color Prints (With one Print Head)
So what are you to do if you have only one print head like my replicator 2 has but you want to print two colors? Some may give up and say “ya just can’t”. I have already show that is not entirely...
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LED lights – Auto off after 0-3 minutes – Update 2 of 2
In my previous update I made a light that will turn its self off after a few mins. Now its time to make a case for it so my 2 year old can play with it. Here is what I came up with. 3D model Underside...
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Friction welding: Effective and Fun
Awhile ago I say this article on Hackaday http://hackaday.com/2014/12/30/3d-printing-technique-friction-welding/ on how to quickly and easily use friction welding on 3D prints. I recently printed out a...
View ArticleBuild Plates Rant
I was recently asked to comment on the build plate that I use on my printer. Specifically, why I use painter tape on the HBP (http://www.3dprintmd.com/print/heated-build-plate/). I did quite a lot of...
View ArticleKickstarter Backed
In case anyone was wondering …. I though I would share the Kickstarters that I am currently backing.
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