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Running a bit late today, thanks to an overly busy schedule with work. Falling behind with the video sessions for the gaming, thanks to my distractions with 3d printing, but managing to successfully print a lot of material. In particular, I should have enough True-Tiles for the upcoming Pathfinder session on Sunday, which should go over well. Haven’t started any of the painting yet, that will likely be during my travel next week, but they at least are usable. And thanks to the suggestion, they are magnetic as well, although I rather quickly used up the first pack of magnetic…
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In preparation for the second wave of my True-Tiles printing, I have been batch printing a lot of bases, while I wait for the little round magnets to arrive today. I believe I will need more square bases to fully re-finish the prior tiles, but I will be doing those once I have fully tested this current set. These prints do take a little bit less time, but the big savings is in filament, with the large central section cut out. There is still some waste, for each of the open-lock slots, but compared to the first set it is…
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I continue to produce the True-Tiles terrain, and although I have changed directions on the base pieces, the top pieces are just fine. However, after my first batch, I realized that using Army Painter paints for the painting of this amount was not very cost effective – I nearly emptied my Dark Wash bottle, and most of my Oak Brown, and made a big dent in the other colors. At $6-8 per bottle, that isn’t workable. Taking a cue from Wyloch’s videos, I have instead opted for the cheap craft route, and picked up several bottles of paint from the…
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I doubt I had anyone actually bother to watch my 3d printer in action, and if you had, then you likely found that the performance was certainly lacking. As an alternative, I have now instead configured it to run through my YouTube Live channel, with a streaming option instead. This provides far better quality, which is good, and a means of auto-cataloging the videos. That being said, there is little benefit to a many-hour video, unless it is live, so once the print is complete, I will be publishing instead the timelapse version of the footage generated by the OctoPi…
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With the acquisition of the 3d Printer, my son’s big ask was for a prop for use during our gaming sessions. Since he is currently playing a Necromancer in our Pathfinder campaign, he of course wanted a skull to show off. And since I am always up for a challenge, we opted for not just a small skull, but the largest one that this printer can handle. For extra challenge, we opted to print it in temperature-sensitive PLA, so that it would change color with body heat. We could not find a good combo (he wanted white to red –…
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Finished up a second batch of tiles on the printer while I was out of town this week, then upgraded the little Raspberry Pi computer that manages the printer itself. Now I should have sufficient space to at least do a timelapse of future prints, and potentially even stream live to YouTube. Still a bit of experimentation. In the meantime, I have finished off the first 1 kg spool of filament, just in time to start the big project for the son using special color-sensitive filament. Fingers crossed that all my experience pays off, and the large print job (estimated…
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Managed to take time to paint up the first set of True-Tiles, consisting of 10 doors, 4 flat tiles, 5 single wall tiles and 5 corner tiles. Total time, about 4 hours.
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Are you mesmerized by an active 3D printer like I am? Can you stare for hours watching the robotic arm move back and forth as it slowly builds a model millimeter by millimeter? If so, then I have a fun little new option with my printer – a live feed that runs pretty much all the time, and can let just about anyone watch the excitement *. This should work with any browser, though I can’t vouch for the overall performance (the system is running on old equipment that I cobbled together for this experiment – a Raspberry Pi 2…
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