print fails & an update

[D. Joe]

I don't follow the 3D printing sub-reddit that closely, but saw this today:

http://imgur.com/a/Qm5q6/noscript

sometimes failure is more interesting than success, especially if someone
else is doing all the suffering.

Speaking of that, lots of 3D printing activity in the space. Skip is
continuing his E-nable efforts (more on the project in general at
http://enablingthefuture.org/)

Ben revived the Huxley and between that and Skip's MacGyvrbot seems to have
gotten the pieces needed for his Mendel90, which he's calibrating this
weekend.

Skip and Matt have been organizing the shop a bit, and with Matt's Printrbot
Simple and the long-term-loaned Printrbot Plus, we've easily got a
half-dozen printers in running or near-running trim in the space at the
moment. We may end up using the telco rack shelves for storing printers
that aren't running or being actively used (for some value of "actively"
probably on a week-to-week basis--things that are running or ready-to-run
and have been run recently will probably stay on a benchtop).

--
Joe On ceding power to tech companies: http://xkcd.com/1118/
man screen | grep -A2 weird
A weird imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of
all the features.

[D. Joe]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 11:09:03PM +0000, D. Joe wrote:
> I don't follow the 3D printing sub-reddit that closely, but saw this today:
>
> http://imgur.com/a/Qm5q6/noscript
>
> sometimes failure is more interesting than success, especially if someone
> else is doing all the suffering.

Speaking of fails, that wasn't the link I thought it was. Here we go:

http://www.3dprintingforum.org/threads/460-9-Epic-3D-Printing-Fails

and

https://www.flickr.com/groups/3d-print-failures/