Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

For some time I have been working on a magnet coil winder project. One of the things that I wanted was a tally counter to keep track of how...

Back in 2005-6 Reprap was using the venerable Pic 16F628A and was controlling steppers with the old, but reliable SN754410 chip. The SN...

Jul på laboratoriet Jag tror att Gud inte tvingar oss att tänka på honom, bara att vi tänka. Ändå tror jag att vi aldrig får glömma si...

When I bought my Rapman 3 I ordered two extruders and an extra extruder barrel drilled to 0.3 mm. When I assembled the extruder, I though...

I don't know what is going on. When my Rapman/Skeinforge system prints horizontal holes in objects they typically come out looking qui...

I was lazy. I didn't even bother regenerating the gcode for x-carriage-lower_1off using ABS assumptions instead of HDPE assumptions. T...

I treated Mendel part z-leadscrew-base-bar-clamp_2off in the same way, viz, a segmented apron. You can see what this looks like in Netfabb...

I'd heard that people printing Mendel were having trouble printing the largest pieces of Mendel in anything but PLA. Since PLA filamen...

I've been hearing that people are struggling to print the largest parts of Mendel in ABS, so I've decided to see if it can be manag...

I've got the curling on HDPE prints down to something quite manageable. Last night I decided that I could dress down the remainder if ...

Yes, if we step back and look at what a belt does instead of simply trying to replicate existing ones. Belt driven Reprap machines have a...