D-Bot 3D printer linear rail upgrade
Mark Bronkalla Background My D-Bot is now 5 years old. It has worked well, but the Z axis has been getting sloppy, tilting slightly as it moves up and down. I tried…
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Recumbent Tike – Improvements II
If you let an engineer build something and use it, it will get tweaked over time. Now that the new seat is on the trike and I have been riding…
Ring Roller Dies for forming a curved V shape
For the Path Light project I needed to make curved corner pieces for the roof. The roof panels are roughly triangular and the corners have a roughly 1/4×1/4 angle of…
D-Bot – 3D printer upgrades
About 2 years ago I built the D-Bot which is a core-xy style 3d printer. What this means is I have a printer with a relatively large build volume of…
Isla in her crib
So now the project is complete. The crib is delivered and Isla seems to enjoy it. However at 3 weeks old, she still seems almost lost in it.
Crib – Mattress frame
The mattress needs to be height adjustable. With this design there are 3 heights available. High, low and floor. The frame is made of 3/4×3/4 ” 14 gauge steel tubing.…
3D Printing Nylon
One of my goals when building the printer was to be able to print nylon and other high temp materials. For the trike, I wanted to print some parts for…
Recumbent trike – idlers and longer ride
The trike is now mostly done, but the drive train was giving me grief. The idlers were not working out and I replaced the rear cassette due to the chain…
3D printer Improvements – Bed leveling and Thermocouple Amp
3 point bed leveling was needed. I really should have done this from the beginning. 4 point is way too hard to do and results in warped plates. 3 point…
3D Printing parts for the Printer
At this point the printer isl making more parts for itself. Teal (my wife) compared it to Frankenstein adding his own parts after he had an arm attached. One of…