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Tag: Guides
My 3D Printing Hardware and Accessoire Guides on one page.
Q&A: Belts, Slicers, Extruders and a Printrbot Simple Metal question overload!
Second Q&A session! This time featuring questions (and answers) on the ideal belt type, direct vs. geared extruders, the different slicers and a whole bunch of topics around the Printrbot Simple Metal! Printrbot section at 7:56 Firmware guides mentioned in the video, Guide 1 & Guide 2 Silicone heater mats Music by Kevin MacLeod
3D printing guides: Advanced firmware tricks!
Part 2 of my guide on all things firmware! Covering everything from the available gcodes over the built-in safety features to using your spare pins for something useful! Part 1 Arduino Marlin download, repository Music by Boxcat Games
Setting up a LCD and SD card controller panel
Learn how to set up an LCD screen, click encoder input and SD card reader on your 3D printer!
3D printing guides: Setting up auto bed tramming leveling tilt compensation!
Learn how to set up automatic bed tramming on your 3D printer, as seen on the new Printrbots!
3D printing guides – Plastic destruction
Formlabs’ SLA printed sample felt very strong to my hands – find out how well it performs when being put to the test! I’ll be comparing the Formlabs resin part to prints from ABS, PLA and Taulman Bridge. Print settings for each part: – Formlabs SLA sample: Formlabs Form1+, Formlabs white resin, 100µm layers – ABS: Mendel90 w/ E3Dv6, 250°C, 60mm/s, far-east black ABS , Slic3r and 200µm layers – PLA: Printrbot Simple Metal w/ UBIS hotend, 208°C, 40mm/s, Printrbot purple sample PLA , Cura and 200µm layers – Nylon:Continue reading
3D printed Glidecam-like image stabilizer!
Need a handheld video-camera stabilizer, but the ready-made ones seem too expensive? Just print one! Design and BOM at Youmagine Music by Josh Woodward I am not affiliated with Glidecam. This is not a product endorsed, designed or manufactured by Glidecam!
3D printing guides – Using flexible filament!
Think flexible filaments like Ninjaflex are hard to print? There are a couple things to watch out for, but anyone can do it. Get some flexible materials from E3D Music by Jason Shaw