Category: Crafting
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Coffee Table
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Spent the weekend working on a project for the living room, crafting a coffee table and crafting workstation for the wife. Definitely not heirloom quality furniture, but functional and very sturdy. It still needs a bit more work – the top needs to be sanded, painted and actually attached, but it is otherwise complete. Total…
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Filament Choices
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As I have been getting further and further into 3d printing, I have been experimenting with a number of different colors and brands of filament. In general, I have not found much significant different in quality for PLA between options, but for consistency, I have been tending towards the same ones each time. If curious,…
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A return to woodworking
I have been tasked by the wife to build a coffee table/work station for the living room, to accommodate her various crafting efforts. Now that we no longer have a large Labrador, we have the space (and less loose hair), and she is ready to have a larger surface to work on projects. As a…
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Printer repairs
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Ran into another problem with the printer over the weekend, when it started having challenges printing reliably. In each case, it would run for 15-30 minutes, and then jam, and stop extruding. After cancelling, I could clear the jam and get the extruder going again, but with the next attempt, the same would happen.
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Printing variety
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Had a number of recent projects this week that have been working the printer quite a bit. Not only am I working on my first printing and painting video, but I have been collecting a number of time lapse videos for other projects. The wife also tasked me with me with making a Boy Scout…
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Video content
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Still struggling to find a format for the creation of YouTube content, after numerous challenges and setbacks. I have found that game play videos are simply too long and involved to make good content – they are rather dull to watch, take forever to edit down, and I don’t have the gear to make them…
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Paladin (with beer)
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Decided to test the limits of the printer, and attempt to print a custom gaming miniature. In this case, it is a paladin, wielding a sword and beer. Resolution was set for 0.1mm, and there was a lot of support material, but overall I am happy with the quality. The picture certainly highlights the roughness…
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Fueling the Rebellion
A second print for terrain for Star Wars: Legion, this was a long one coming in at 27 hours with a resolution of 0.15mm. Model is by SableBadger, hosted on Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2894409, specifically model #3. As before, pictured with a Pathfinder figure for scale. The print turned out very nice, though there was a…