Pleasant Hardware has been rocking it lately by hooking up an LCD screen to their MakerBot. Check it out and then click on the link below to go check out their other work, it’s great!
Pleasant Hardware – 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware.
Check out this beautiful MakerBot in the wild!
A Smackerel of Opinion: Makerbot – an open source 3D printer.
Loke Uei got a MakerBot and filmed the unboxing. You can see what’s inside a MakerBot Deluxe Kit! It looks like he ordered some extra ABS too! Happy MakerBotting Loke!
Besides having an awesome hackerspace in a cave. The CCCKC crew put together an awesome MakerBot with a custom case. Also, check out their beautiful ABS winder! Click through for more details!
Wow, this is great! Check out this unboxing. This gives you a really good idea of what comes in the basic kit. (They added a USB to TTL cable to their order)
Leigh from HackLab TO unboxes the group’s new MakerBot, a 3D printer
at MiniSoOnCon2009 in Hamilton, Ontario. - Link
Belakor’s flickr stream is full of awesome sci-fi movie props. I can’t wait to see what he does with his MakerBot!
From the MakerBot Flickr Pool, Dawning.ca made his own USB2TTL adapter!
I didn’t have a USB2TTL cable laying around and so I looked in to what one entails. Turns out the magic in those cables I already had in a break-out board.. I just soldered on a header and used a little breadboard to pull over the pins I needed. But alas, it didn’t matter. All the magic was gone from that FTDI chip anyway. Though I’ve ordered another one of those rather than paying more for a whole cable that doesn’t give me the same flexibility.
The Poor-mans USB2TTL adapter on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
makerbot build from William Burks on Vimeo.
This is how you do it!
How did you spend your weekend? Really that is cool… We spent our weekend building a 3D printer, you know the usual. It took a total of three days to put together and to do some minor troubleshooting, but all the hardware is finished! The song is Plastic Bertrand “Ca Plane Pour Moi” for all you copyright fiends out there…
Found via @wlburks Twitter
Did not do much for modding, but did add some 5mm neoprene between (X/Y) steppers and housing, and on the rod covers/caps to reduce the ratlle, noise and vibrations. That did help quit a bit. No upgrade done to prevent some of the extruder issues/squeeking, but that is planned. Running ReplicatorG 0005, shipped firmware on an Ubuntu AMD64 machine.
Wow, awesome color scheme on Makerbot 133.
dodecahedron from EFFALO on Vimeo.
First print for makerbot #000098. Great video!
extruding from EFFALO on Vimeo.
Bonus! Extrusion. This is the first thing to do to make sure your machine is up and running. Lovely macro shot. Check out the blog for this bot.
Want to see who has which bot? Check the MakerBot lineage page!