Hackaday (unofficial) November 29, 2023 1:00pm Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House #homehacks #news #3dprintedhouse #3dprinting #hempcrete #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House It sounds like a headline from the future: the weekend before Thanksgiving, a bulldozer came for the first example of a printed home that was supposed to help the housing crisis in the city of Musc…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 29, 2023 1:00am G-code Goes Binary with Proposed New Format #3dprinterhacks #3dprintering #3dprinting #binary #compression #encoding #gcode #prusaslicer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 G-code Goes Binary With Proposed New Format G-code is effective, easily edited, and nearly ubiquitous when it comes to anything CNC. The format has many strengths, but space efficiency isn’t one of them. In fact, when it comes to 3D pr…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 24, 2023 1:00am Re-Inventing The Single 8 Home Movie Format #art #reverseengineering #videohacks #3dprinting #8mm #cine #film #movie #single8 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Re-Inventing The Single 8 Home Movie Format [Jenny List] has been reverse-engineering and redesigning the Single8 home movie film cartridge for the modern age, to breathe life into abandoned cine cameras. One of the frustrating things about …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 21, 2023 12:00pm CPU Cooler in a Printer’s Hot End #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #heatpipe #hotend #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 CPU Cooler In A Printer’s Hot End [Proper Printing] often does unusual 3D printer mods. This time, he’s taking a CPU cooler made for a Raspberry Pi with some heat pipes and converting it into a 3D printer hot end. Sound crazy…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 16, 2023 9:00am Even 3D Printers Are Taking Selfies Now #3dprinterhacks #cellphonehacks #raspberrypi #3dprinting #androidphone #applephone #bluetooth #gphoto2 #ios #kdenlive #octolapse #octoprint #octoprintplugin #timelapse #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Even 3D Printers Are Taking Selfies Now We love watching 3D prints magically grow, through the power of timelapse videos. These are easier to make than ever, due in no small part to a vibrant community that’s continuously refining …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 5, 2023 9:00pm Neat Soldering Station Design Has Workshop & Portable Versions #techhacks #3dprinting #solder #solderingstation #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Neat Soldering Station Design Has Workshop & Portable Versions The warm and rather stinky heart of any hacker’s lair is the soldering station, where the PCB meets the metal (solder). A good soldering station lets you get on with the business of building …
Hackaday (unofficial) September 25, 2023 9:00pm Carbon Fiber with 3D Printing #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #carbonfiber #moulding #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Carbon Fiber With 3D Printing [Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and was surprised that it was fairly inexpensive and worked well, although he mentions that the process is a bit intense. You can lea…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 24, 2023 12:00pm Powder Your Prints For Baby-Smoothness #howto #mischacks #3dprinting #babypowder #postprocessing #resin #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Powder Your Prints For Baby-Smoothness Layer lines are a dead giveaway to non-normies that a thing was 3D printed. There are things you can do to smooth them — sanding, chemical smoothing, and fillers come to mind. Although this t…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 23, 2023 6:00pm High Temp Resin Means Faster Hot Foil Stamping #3dprinterhacks #art #3dprinting #hotfoilstamping #resinprinting #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 High Temp Resin Means Faster Hot Foil Stamping [This Designed That] does a lot of hot foil stamping. That’s the shiny embellishment you’ll see on wedding invitations and your fancier letterheads. They wanted a way to quickly see if …
Hackaday (unofficial) September 18, 2023 6:00am 3D Printing at 100C #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #polycaprolactone #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printing At 100C Normally, 3D printing with filament takes temperatures of around 200 °C. However, there are some crafting plastics that melts in hot water at 60 °C. You can get spools of similar plastic that print…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 13, 2023 7:00pm 3D Printed RC Car is Geared For Speed #toyhacks #3dprinting #rccar #radiocontrol #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printed RC Car Is Geared For Speed You can always go out and buy an RC car off the shelf. However, it’s readily achievable to print your own design that has many of the features of off-the-shelf models, as demonstrated by [Jin…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 8, 2023 4:00pm Fitting 3D Prints in a Snap #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Fitting 3D Prints In A Snap The good news is that 3D printing lets you iterate on your design until it is just right. The bad news is that you often have to iterate your design over and over to get things to fit together. It …
Hackaday (unofficial) September 8, 2023 6:00am [Thomas Sanladerer]’s YouTube Channel Goes in the Toilet #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #3dscanning #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 [Thomas Sanladerer]’s YouTube Channel Goes In The Toilet We like [Thomas Sanladerer], so when we say his channel has gone in the toilet, we mean that quite literally. He had a broken toilet and wanted to compare options for effecting a 3D printed repair.…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 5, 2023 3:00am 3D Printed — Um — Hook and Loop Fasteners #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #hookandloop #velcro #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printed — Um — Hook And Loop Fasteners [Teaching Tech’s] latest video discusses “3D printed Velcro.” But as even he admits, Velcro is a trademark, so we think it is more appropriate to talk about hook and loop fastener…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 2, 2023 12:00am Hefty 3D Printed Quadcopter Meets Nasty End #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #quadcopter #weight #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hefty 3D Printed Quadcopter Meets Nasty End You can readily buy all kinds of quadcopters off the shelf these days, but sometimes it’s more fun to build your own. [Michael Rechtin] did just that, with a hefty design of his own creation.…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 30, 2023 12:00am IKEA’s Billy Bookshelf is a Useful 3D Printing Enclosure #3dprinterhacks #3dprinter #3dprinting #ikea #ikeahacks #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 IKEA’s Billy Bookshelf Is A Useful 3D Printing Enclosure The results from your 3D printer may be improved if you use a dedicated enclosure for the job. This is particularly helpful for printing certain materials which are more sensitive to cold drafts or…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 28, 2023 9:00am Take a PEEK at this 3D Printer #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #exoticfilament #hightemperatureprint #peek #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Take A PEEK At This 3D Printer Normally, when you think of PEEK in 3D printing, you think of a part made of PEEK, suitable for lower-temperature plastics. [ND-3D] has a different idea: printing with PEEK. You can get the details…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 22, 2023 9:00pm 3D Printing With Clay, Thanks to Custom Extruder #3dprinterhacks #art #3dprinting #clay #extruder #pasteextruder #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printing With Clay, Thanks To Custom Extruder When it comes to 3D printing clay, there are a lot of challenges to be met. An extruder capable of pushing clay is critical, and [davidsfeir] has an updated version suitable for an Ender 3 printer.…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 20, 2023 9:00am 3D-Printed Woven Coasters Save Tabletops in Style #3dprinterhacks #howto #mischacks #3dprinting #basketweaving #coaster #stakeandstrand #weaving #weavingpla #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D-Printed Woven Coasters Save Tabletops In Style When regular people think of 3D printing, they likely imagine semi-newfangled objects like twisty vases and useless trinkets. But there is so much more to 3D printing, as [andrei.erdei]’s pri…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 8, 2023 6:00am Enhance Your Enclosures With a Shadow Line #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #cad #designtips #enclosures #injectionmolding #shadowlines #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Enhance Your Enclosures With A Shadow Line Some design techniques and concepts from the injection molding world apply very nicely to 3D printing, despite them being fundamentally different processes. [Teaching Tech] demonstrates designing s…