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3D Printing and TinkerCAD at 79M
24 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in 3D design, 3D Printing, 79M Tags: Makerbot, TinkerCAD
Printing iPad Stands for Stop-Motion Animation
07 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in 3D Printing, Workshops Tags: Animation, iphone stand, Makerbot, stop motion
Our Makerbot Replicator Z18 was hard at work printing iPad stands for the iPad Movies: Stop-Motion Animation workshop held at the district office. Here you can see four of them mid-print.
Here is an iPad stand supporting a phone. Note how we taped the phone to the stand, and the stand to the table, to minimize jiggling.
Spinning Tree
04 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in 3D Printing Tags: Makerbot, Sketchup, spinning, tree
This is a 3D printed tree that has movable branches. 
I made it in Sketchup of simple geometric shapes, each rectangle just a wee bit smaller than the lower one.
The top part of the tree was actually a bit of challenge to create, as I had to create the triangle shape, but then make a partial hole through one side of it. There are three versions of it in the illustration above.
I exported each piece separately into Makerbot and then printed them one at a time.
Here are some more views of the tree.
Hinges from start to finish
01 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in 3D Printing Tags: ABS, infill, Makerbot, Sketchup
I designed hinges in Sketchup
and exported them to Makerbot
Here they are being printed (around 40% done)
Here it is about 60%
meh. The machine just overheated.
It is just as well, since the design was not correct. The hinges are just a bit too big to fit together.
Back to Sketchup….
Makerbot
01 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in 3D Printing Tags: Makerbot, Ronco
Back at the District Office, I have been experimenting with a Makerbot Replicator 2X Dual Extrusion 3D Printer (whew, that’s a mouthful).
There is so much potential for 3D printing, yet there is still just a 66% success rate on our prints. Some prints stop sticking to the build plate, sometimes the extruder clogs up in the middle of a print, sometimes who-knows-what happens.
I wish it were as easy as a Ron Popeil’s rotisserie chicken cooker. You know, “JUST SET IT AND FORGET IT!”)
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