Alex Gibson - edumaker

Can't wait to try #3dprinting filament from Ukraine. Until it leaves Kyiv, this parcel (like Ukrainian children every day now) is currently at risk of being blown up by Russian missiles, and the US President is OK with that, having overturned the REPUBLICAN bill to sanction Russian oil.

MIT optimizes concrete 3D printing for manufacturability

I released an album! Sleeve notes: helichron.com/Docs/the-rem... Listen here: open.spotify.com/album/1dX3mu...

3D Printing is fun. Go @countbinface.bsky.social

Y tho? #3dprinting #slic3r #prusaslicer #bambustudio #orcaslicer

Robot employee #113 looks set to complete his probation. If you stop and look at what he's doing at any given moment it appears bumbling and ineffective. But leave him to get on with his job and over time the quality of his work is impressive. He'll fit in just fine here. #automation #3dprinting

Love this. We have a lot of air gapped #3dprint farm machines that want internet like a mogwai wants feeding after midnight.

OK this kettle is several years old and in fact we're its second home. But it just broke today because on this otherwise all metal appliance, the lever you press down on every time to boil, is divided into two thin sections 2mm across. Can this be anything but intentional to reduce its lifetime?

Success! My lovely old Dell U3011 is back in action with new and uprated parts, after a wait for the boat to arrive from China, the fix went smoothly this evening - the real work was carefully desoldering the TOP266VG high-voltage AC/DC offline switcher chip, heatsink and a pair of TSOPs sharing it.

@microsoft.com Edge truly is the bunny-boiling ex-partner of software. In what universe would I to do a Windows update and expect that when I next come to print some paperwork I find Edge has made itself the default PDF application? Fixed it but shouldn't have to, and what else did it hijack?

@creatrixbritt.bsky.social There's a lot to unpack here. #squirrels #nuts

Can you receive FM radio on a 3D printer's heatbed? @repkord.bsky.social asked, and we tested, with some assistance from my Dad, a radio engineer! The answer is yes, and a video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3_...

I couldn't bring myself to walk away from repairing my Dell U3011 screen. Set a hard limit of half an hour to find a fix. Thanks to Google translation of subtitles on an excellent Brazilian dude's video I found the real culprit: this chip with the huge crater, under a complex heatsink. Part inbound!

My trusty Dell U3011 monitor just died, power supply dry solder joint + domed capacitors so I ordered those, will try repair but I needed to upgrade. Looking at 4K vs 5K2K screens I can vaguely afford, then Dell drop the monitor I really want: www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/d... @mobiledom.eurosky.social

I'm pleased to say the outcome of my #3dprinting experiment was at the top end of my expectations! Two very solid, 574g exactly, #3dprinted speaker stands with concrete infill, ready to be installed.

Experimental #3dprinting infill here at Edumaker this weekend: Monitor speaker desk stands, in thin walled PETG, filled with concrete to increase mass and rigidity. We used a matching #3dprinted funnel to keep things neat, which worked very well! Now we wait to see how the curing process goes...

This is very cool - close-up of SpaceX Raptor 3 rocket engine, showing the #3dprinting layer lines! Almost the whole engine is #3dprinted, allowing the usual bird's nest of vulnerable pipes & fittings to be integrated into one #3dprint - speeds up production, reduces risk youtu.be/OoU0Zrrp2qg?...

I ordered salted cheese coffee and I regret nothing

Wonderful bit of flip-side thinking from @cspenn.com - thanks for this nugget of sense.

As the technologically advanced US and its weapons systems customers rapidly deplete their stocks of multimillion-dollar missiles shooting down 20,000-dollar Iranian Shaheds, some European manufacturers still haven't realised that Ukraine now leads, #3dprinting drones in basements costing hundreds.

Interesting thing on the @snapmaker.bsky.social U1 #3dprinter: The onboard firmware update gui specifies a series of separate firmware updates. First the main MCU, then individual #3dprinting tool heads. Not surprised, just nice to see the granularity, more interesting than bare % complete bar.

you can ditch Bambu Lab's cloud now, apparently, and use your 3d printer with something called Bambuddy www.xda-developers.com/finally-have...

Fresh from the oven, the forbidden crème brulée. Rejuvenated silica gel beads to help fully dry out my classic car after upholstery cleaning, not even #3dprinting for a change!

A 3D printed recreation of an Arthropleura, the largest insect (arthropod) ever known to exist. It went extinct 300 million years ago.

Interesting development at Cocoa Press. This seems to be a more common move among #3dprinting and maker company founders, it makes a lot of sense for @ellierose.me to bring in an experienced CEO to lead what is now a diversified business, while focusing full time on the tech that made it special.

Neither machine nor organ: these Platynereis worms possess cells that function like a 3D printer! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I like the efficiency of #3Dprinting using waste heat from a compute process to heat the bed! In this case purpose built-in Bitcoin mining ASICs | Tom's Hardware share.google/59mKLPUwA5Aw...

This is a very creative and new-to-me way to make a #PCB with a #3dprinter. It won't be efficient for every task, but it's very in line with #RepRap #3dprinting - a printer that can make its own parts. @adrianbowyer.bsky.social @richrap3d.bsky.social

To celebrate 35 years of Lemmings, I built a real 3D Printed Lemming that actually floats! #lemmings #amiga #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-2K...

A nice example of embedded #3dprints. OR, Yo dawg, I heard you like #3dprinting, so I put #3dprinted parts in your #3dprint. www.youtube.com/shorts/R8_4c...

Shout out to Protopasta employee Eric who is getting into hand polishing #3dprints made with Protopasta #metal #3dprinter #filament. Want to know how he polished this steel? Comment to let us know! #3Dprinting

In the 3D printed model section you can see how the trees became integrated without limiting space. Early sketches of Amvest's headquarters on Cruquius Island, Amsterdam.

For the U1 users: I'm going to get one of these and try it, looks like a right-sized top cover!