Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

Some weeks ago I got the idea of putting flanges and guys on long prints to suppress warping.  That worked, more or less.  The problem with...

I want to print a spool for an air core transformer that uses pulsed DC electricity for my printed stepper motor. I was able to design the...

I think that much of the problem we have with AoI comes from the very primitive way that they create a triangle mesh around a solid. Try...

I got things hot-wired together to produce a gcode file for the first layer of the raft. It looks a little rough, mostly because I am ...

Slice and Dice works a bit differently than Skeinforge in places.  To demonstrate a few of the differences, let me use the half-dome that I...

Originally posted in ATechnicalFix.com on August 9th, 2009 In which your narrator rebuilds Tommelise’s Slice and Dice app. Some years a...

Skeinforge has the possibility of generating support materials for overhangs for single extruder Reprap 3D printers. I decided to see how ...

Yesterday, klaszlo, a member of the Rapman users' group wondered how he could get spares for the gear pair on the Rapman 3.0. For many...

Bogdan suggested that we give the method an acid test and print a 125x125x10 block. I made up a test block in Art of Illusion and gave it a...