Paper is an incredible material, but why does it always have to be flat? I’ve developed a process to turn paper into a three-dimensional material, using as little as a 3D printer, a blender, a vice, and pinch of rice.
The resulting material has the texture of paper, but is as hard and rigid as plastic, moldable into an infinite variety of shapes, and completely biodegradable.
3D Printing
Giant 3D Printer from Scratch!
It works! The Big 3D Printer MkII is finished and it works beautifully. I made a first test print of a 66mm combination wrench, 800mm in length with absolutely no warping!! It shows a few holes in the top because it has too little infill but hey! it is the first print!! It took only 6 hours but I’m sure that this thing can go way faster.
EZBoard Lite – The most user friendly Ender 3 mainboard upgrade
The EZboard Lite is another drop in replacement 32 bit mainboard for the Ender 3, Ender 5 and CR-10. Just like it’s competitor the SKR Mini E3, it is a significant upgrade for a stock printer. In this video, I take you through installation, the very user friendly online firmware configurator and test the board stock, with EZout filament runout, the EZabl Pro and BLtouch.
Marlin 2.0 has been officially released with 32-bit support, including the Arduino Due
New Features
- 32-bit support with several boards added
- DUE / SAM3X8E
- Grand Central / SAM5D
- Smoothie / SBASE / EZBoard / LPC176x
- SKR Mini / STM32
- ESP32
- Improved support for AVR boards
- Melzi / ATmega 1280
- RAMPS / ATmega 2560
- RAMBo / miniRAMBo / Einsy RAMBo
And more!
3D Printing Baby “Yoda”
Baby Yoda is 50 years old. Big Yoda died in Return of the Jedi. Right at the end. The Mandalorian takes place between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The timeline is clear: Yoda is the illicit love child of Yoda and Yaddle, who was a member of the Jedi Council circa The Phantom Menace. This seems obvious to me. The timelines match up. It’s also peak Expanded Universe nonsense, so I’m sort of rooting for this theory to be true because it’s terrible, in a good way. What would make more sense is for Baby Yoda to just be a character completely disconnected from anyone in Star Wars as we know it, to make the universe seem broader in scope.
$2 18650 Li-ion Battery Charger: How to Design and 3D Print | TP4056 module
How to design and 3D print a 18650 Battery Charger for under $2 on an Ender 3 using a TP4056 module In this video I show you how I designed and 3D printed my 18650 battery charger and how I soldered all the wires.
The price of one charger for 4 batterys is under $2.
Price of a charger for 4 batterys: around $2 100 contacts $5
4 pair of contacts 4x $0.1 = $0.4
10 TP4056 $2
4 pieces 4 x $0.2 = $0.8
Some filament less then $1
How to Upgrade Your 3D Printer’s Build Plate
Tired of using glue sticks and blue painter’s tape? Here are two different options for upgrading your 3D printer’s build plate.
Arduino-Controlled Photogrammetry 3D Scanner
A completely automated way to take photos and convert them into a 3D object.
Researchers 3D-Printed Plastic Cubes With Complex Patterns That Make them Bulletproof
The technology continues to evolve, but 3D printing is still mostly used for creating prototypes or parts that won’t have to endure tremendous stresses or rigorous wear and tear. That might not always be the case, however, as researchers at Rice University found a way to 3D print complex patterns resulting in plastic objects that are almost as hard and durable as diamond.
How to 3D Print Dimensionally Accurate Parts
I ran into a problem this week with a 3D-printed part that came out slightly too small and didn’t fit. This is a common problem with 3D printers. Today we’ll take a look at the problem, talk about what causes it and show how to solve it.