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The Protomold folks sent me a little cube puzzle a year or so ago, where each piece is a different

Historically I've used Solidworks. As Bill pointed out that's not a good option for the

It wasn't the replacement that made me feel guilty, it was the phrase "your motherboard was

Changing colors is tricky, A guy on thingiverse made a welder to melt lengths of filament together.

Nice. I was never planning to take my 'bot, but I was planning to use it to print some gifts for

Mike: Considering what Bill said, if you have time you could drop off your EC at teh Splat and I

Dunno if any of you follow the makerbot blog: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/08/16/makerbot-sends-

Last night I finished (sort of- I have to permanently run the wiring in the bot) my replacement

Hey all On the advice of Bill, I reburned the bootloader to this new mobo that I got with my kit, the

I've been seeing that link go around on various geek sites. Looks pretty cool. I might have to

Thanks, Jeff! I'd missed the "Edit" option along the way. I'll go take a look at

He created Makerbots to drive them out of their skulls. So I got both 'bots running great with

Have fun....I'll be off a-schmoozing. Cheers, Drew On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Bill

Once again, the wall. I hits it. I successfully, with some pointers from Drew, fixed my usb

Hmmm. I have Lady Ada's USB TinyISP; I believe that works with AVRdude and is what I burned my

Okay, I found it, put the firmware there, edited the firmware xml to include the definitions, and

LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Alexander Alexander Ray

It's pretty awesome. I posted it to the Splat list as soon as I saw it this AM. JSC From: bill

I know a few have been looking at low cost CNC Mill setups. Take a look at ShapeOko: http://www.

So anyone who isn't onboard should be at this point, right? With a $455 Cupcake? Geez, not sure

Manning the balloonage boooth. Cheers, Drew On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Jeff Crews <cruzetti@

It was a dragonfly or butterfly or some yard arty thing like that. Maybe it was a glowing gnome, I

Sorry, He mentioned getting some resin way back that was $200 per kg and said it was probably cheaper

We could do a build of our own any time, but if you want to get the NCSU machines, I believe that

Ok, http://www.makergear.com/products/3d-printers That's $825 4 times the build area and easier

I just ordered my tape. I should have made up a whole order of stuff for my Mendel but Chrissy is in

Sorry if you didn't get cc'd on anything. Open hours are supposed to be Tuesdays and

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Not sure a decision has been made... what's the proposal on the table now? Where management won

I agree -- learning to tweak and use the 'bot is as much work as building it! Also, I'm