What Are You Printing Today?

[The Hat]

I'm picking up a monoprice voxel

My first 3D printer was a Monoprice, it was a great little printer till the hot bed packed in, then that made me look at something much bigger..

 

[Redbrickman]

You will be excited to learn I'm picking up a monoprice voxel tomorrow from a friend who upgraded to a Bambu A1,

Free.99! Works fine, he just wanted a bigger plate printer that wasn't as finicky.

Welcome to the mad world of 3D printing. The best advice I can give is set a finite time per day for playing with the printer, otherwise if you have a partner now you might not have them after a few weeks

Its addictive!

 

[chaos_engineer]

Welcome to the mad world of 3D printing. The best advice I can give is set a finite time per day for playing with the printer, otherwise if you have a partner now you might not have them after a few weeks

Its addictive!

Oh I've been printing for a bit. This is just my first FDM machine. My existing setup is resin SLA, so now I will get to explore the joys of jammed nozzles, funky extruder heads, and all that jazz.

Which reminds me. Anyone have favorite filament brands? I ordered some elegoo to play with while I learned. Their resin is pretty good so I'm hoping that translates to filament as well.

 

[Redbrickman]

Just avoid the very cheapest as it is generally more bother than its worth.

 

[chaos_engineer]

Stringy on the fine detail at this scale. Bed was 55c nozzle was 221c. Both within spec for the PLA. However, I"'m taking it as a successful learning lesson.

 

[chaos_engineer]

I had some stuff queued up to run once I got access to an FDM, so I'm knocking them out in rapid succession. Did 3 of these little bud vases yesterday to go with the roses I printed last month. Image is shot in front of a mirror to show the color variation in the PLA. The odd-looking "parting line" at the shoulder is some kind of defect in the first one I ran. It's all one piece and the other 2 don't show it.

Up today is a "slip over" cover for the pod camera/microphone combo that lives on my desk for work.

 

[chaos_engineer]

Before/after. This camera has a habit of resetting the USB connection and re-enbabling itself. So, I have it a little hat.

 

[The Hat]

We’re having a bit of a cold snap this week, so it’s too cold to print anything..

Maybe next week..

 

[Redbrickman]

Before/after. This camera has a habit of resetting the USB connection and re-enbabling itself. So, I have it a little hat.

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Or maybe someone/some other connection from outside is enabling it

 

[chaos_engineer]

Or maybe someone/some other connection from outside is enabling it

I think it was my garbage lenovo laptop. I needed to have it re-imaged for Windows 11 a couple of weeks ago and pulled some strings to just get a new one instead. Hasn't happened since.