Open 5/17 Thursday from 6pm to 10pm

Karl

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May 16, 2012, 6:51:37 PM5/16/12

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Open 5/17 Thursday from 6pm to 10pm – 3D Printing

This week Reverse Space's 3D printer group is going to try to finish the Prusa (www.reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel). This printer is almost completed. With luck I am hopeing we should be able to do a test print. A specical thanks to the members of FredHack (http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/FredHack) for helping us complete the electronics called RAMPS needed to run the printer as well as Matthew for doing several hours of soldering.

The two items I am still missing is the glass print bed and the four springs for the heating printing tray. I'm going to try to buy pens from a store and use the springs for the bed. I did order the correct springs from mixshop.com, but it does take them quite an amount of time to get orders out. As for the glass, I think we can use painters tape on the build platform with PLA for test printing.

We also have a Makerbot printer for anyone who want to print something. Feel free to come by

Karl

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May 16, 2012, 7:03:43 PM5/16/12

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If anyone knows how to cut the MakerSlide Google Sketchup design to fix inside the makerbot, I would be happy to print one and well on the Zcorp printer. It's seems easy enough, but every time I try to chop a piece of the slide off it deletes parts needed. You can't use scale to reduce the size.

Chris

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May 17, 2012, 9:09:32 AM5/17/12

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Can't you go into non-wireframe mode, select the face on the end of it and use the push/pull tool to shorten it?

Chris

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May 17, 2012, 9:14:57 AM5/17/12

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If nothing else, when I get there tonight I can show you how to do it in like 30 seconds in 123D using the makerslide extrusion profile dxf.

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:03:43 PM UTC-4, Karl wrote:

Chris

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May 17, 2012, 12:23:51 PM5/17/12

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Or, do it in OpenSCAD: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8992

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:03:43 PM UTC-4, Karl wrote:

Karl

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May 17, 2012, 5:13:18 PM5/17/12

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The MakerBot 3D printer just broke. I was printing something for the meeting tonight. MakerBot is super fast to send replacement parts so it should be working by next Thursday or sooner. Below is an e-mail from MakerBot support. They appear to have the best support for 3D printers of their price range.

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Thank you for contacting MakerBot! I'm going to have a new wire harness sent to you so you can get back up and running.

I'm also going to have our shipping team throw in an extra X-Axis endstop cable. Nate pointed out to me that your motherboard popped its 5V Regulator. After quite a bit of digging, it looks like we've found that this is probably caused by a short in that cable, so it might be in your best interest to replace that as well while you're at it!