Our 3D Printer is growing up. It is keeping its own "Dear Diary wiki page" This is a learning exercise, a performance piece, and a form of documentation of collective knowledge.
3D Printer Diary
- Log your mistakes in printing so that others can learn from them
- Talk about which parts went boo boo
- Ask your sudoroom family to bring you more blue tape for the printer bed or other things
Hardware
We currently have the following 3D printers:
Files
- smb://space/sudoroom public data/Projects/3DPrinting - Preferred place to store files
- Github: https://github.com/sudoroom/ComicsArtSudoRoom - same as Gittorious
- Gittorious - same as github https://gitorious.org/sudoroom-art-projects
Documentation
We currently don't have great documentation right now that covers turning on a printer, connecting it to the computer, calibration, and setting it up. We are working on that.
The current documentation / comic on the printer bed calibration is also out of date, since we have a new printer bed.
Overview
Quick and dirty overview
- Turn on the 3D Printer (switch is on the back right side)
- Make sure the 3D Printer is connected by USB to the desktop
- Start the program Repetier-Host http://www.repetier.com/documentation/repetier-host/
- Calibrate the printer
- Load your STL file (model of the 3D Printout)
- Slice the STL file into G-Code
- Post-Print - remove from the 3D printer bed with a razor
Gallery of Creations
RaspBerry Pi print-out
Our Office
Creation
Today I Learned Class
3D printed 2-part rocket. 65mm max diameter, 29mm motor bay, tangent ogive curve with internal 2-way structural ribs and support for airspeed sensor pitot tube at nose.
Older Documentation
Printer Calibration
Background: Original handwritten piece by Jae. This was the primary documentation for most of the early SudoRoom days and was writen down on a piece of paper. It's quite excellent.
Apocryphal Instructions page 1
Apocryphal Instructions page 2
Close up of an ancient hand-drawn diagram by our 3D printing shepherd, Jae
