32 year-old male My name is Jason and I create Cosplay costumes and props: L4D beeping pipe bombs, L4D Tank costumes, Bianca crossbow from Dragonage 2, Portal Gun with electronics and lights, etc.
Past Cosplays: The Tank: L4D Varric: Dragonage 2 Vincent: Silent Hill 3 George Hamilton: Resident Evil Outbreak Rattmann: Portal 2 comic "Lab Rat"
Aoina and I are currently building a 3D Printer of my design. It has the ability to fabricate 4 foot tall (1230mm) designs in a single print.
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Upgrades and Translucent Blue PLAToday was an upgrade day. I took the extruder apart and refit the bearings into the gears. When I built this thing I was watching a 33 min long youtube video that looked like pixelated shit. For the level of detail and importance of this assembly, they need to re-recorded that video in 1080.
I also measured, cut, and added an aluminum spacer to help control the heat warping that can occur. End result is no more noise. Very nice. It's quiet like it should be.
With those upgrades completed I tried out the new Translucent Blue PLA I bought from Ultimachine.com. ($2 cheaper than Makerbot, AMAZING proven customer service, great quality, and less than 1% diameter variance throughout)...
Upgrades and Translucent Blue PLAToday was an upgrade day. I took the extruder apart and refit the bearings into the gears. When I built this thing I was watching a 33 min long youtube video that looked like pixelated shit. For the level of detail and importance of this assembly, they need to re-recorded that video in 1080.
I also measured, cut, and added an aluminum spacer to help control the heat warping that can occur. End result is no more noise. Very nice. It's quiet like it should be.
With those upgrades completed I tried out the new Translucent Blue PLA I bought from Ultimachine.com. ($2 cheaper than Makerbot, AMAZING proven customer service, great quality, and less than 1% diameter variance throughout). This stuff is awesome.
If you have ever seen Aerogel, this reminds me of that stuff.
Side by side comparison of the Red ABS cube next to the Translucent Blue PLA cube.
PLA is harder than ABS. A wrench printed in ABS would bend, turn white, then just snap in half. I think a wrench printed in PLA would actually turn a nut. I'll print one out and try it this weekend.
I'm also using a new software call KISSlicer. KISS is a common term that stands for "Keep It Simple, Stupid". My old electronics teachers used to say that to me a lot. So KISSlicer stands for "Keep it Simple Slicer".
I think I finally understand all the options and what they do. These prints look awesome. That blue cube has the smoothest top I've ever printed, ever. It's so smooth. The walls are 0.2mm thick so they are so smooth. One more major upgrade to this system and it'll be printing works of art.
I don't really want to call what it does printing.
Fabricating is a better word for what it does. It Fabricates Really Epic Designs.
I can't wait to print a Companion Cube with this Ice Blue. That'll look amazing. Stay tuned for that.
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