[dms-discuss] 3D Printers

[Ryan McKay]

Indeed, many thanks to Alex, Roland, and Aaron for getting the Prusa this
far along!


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:01 AM, yourcurtainsareugly <
yourcurtainsareugly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great! Thanks for the effort and the update. FWIW, the test print I did
> Monday came out ok, if a little squished at the bottom, and it should be
> greatly improved by being able to tweak the bed.
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:04 AM, Emily Schleiner <cordial.emily at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is awesome! Thanks Ryan
>>
>> On Mar 14, 2018 7:35 AM, "Alexander Pedersen" <
>> alexander.dean.pedersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's awesome
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 5:11 AM Ryan McKay <yakcm.nayr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I put some time in to the 3D printers at the space over the past couple
>>>> days.
>>>>
>>>> Tried to improve upon the state of the Prusa i3.  I haven't had too
>>>> much luck in actually getting it to print much better than before, but I
>>>> did fix it up with an adjustable bed-leveling system.  That took a lot of
>>>> time so I actually have more time invested in mechanical fixes than
>>>> software tweaks on that particular machine as of yet.  Not ready to give up
>>>> hope on further slicer calibrations (print settings) yielding some
>>>> improvements as of yet, but I am starting to suspect that there are further
>>>> mechanical issues to be dealt with (getting some oscillations in the X and
>>>> Y dimensions from layer to layer... loose belts?) beyond the, now solved,
>>>> issue of the print bed being super uneven.
>>>>
>>>> Then I fixed up one of the little wooden guys... got it printing great
>>>> now, in relative terms.  It's still not as nice as what I'd like it to be,
>>>> but it's definitely printing better than the Prusa right now.  I'd say we
>>>> could probably start telling visitors that we actually DO have a functional
>>>> 3D printer now, instead of the typical "we have some but they're all
>>>> broken" response... the only potential problem is that this one only has a
>>>> 12x12x10 cm print volume.  I did all the setup, calibration, and driving of
>>>> this little guy with my laptop, so maybe tomorrow I'll try to get it
>>>> running of one of the computers in the space and then transfer over my
>>>> calibrations.  Once that's done I'll be able to show anyone who's
>>>> interested how to use it, and I'll probably write up a little quick start
>>>> guide that could hopefully get a (decently tech-savvy) person from 3D model
>>>> to 3D print.
>>>>
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