Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

After running a variety of speed tests with the Rapman, I gained enough data to estimate the processing time for two kinds of gcode stateme...

I did a very careful, new series of speed tests using F960 (16 mm/sec) over a much longer diagonal baseline, viz, 1.7 meters, with the extru...

The vectorizer in Slice and Dice is pretty inefficient. With certain slopes and curved surfaces I'd noticed that the print head veloci...

There isn't much that is flashy to report at this time. A lot of my time in the past few days has been focussed on a telepresence ...

I managed this by the simple expedient, suggested by my son Adriaan, of replacing the BMP format slice image files with the Portable Networ...

It's one thing to design and print plastic parts that have to mate with steel rods. As I am finding it is quite another to design plas...

This is a very preliminary design study for a paired column section and stepper motor sleeve of one of the three vertical axes required for...

Art of Illusion is a pain in the neck to work with. On the other hand it has the shortest learning curve of any 3D modeling package I'...

Slice and Dice takes up a lot of disk space because it creates and operates on bitmap images, each one of which takes up 22 megabytes, and ...

I got Slice and Dice working well enough to let me do some serious R&D. After a side excursion with partial STLs of hands and naked la...

After my experience trying to print the naked lady with Netfabb I decided to have a go at it with Slice and Dice.  I had considerable troub...

After spending some time with Netfabb for Rapman Beta, I've come to the conclusion that it isn't ready for prime time. That's...

Okay, now I'm not happy any more.  I designed and used Netfabb to clean up a set of 4, 12-toothed herringbone pinion gears that I have ...

A few days ago, I got notice from Alexander at Netfabb that I could download a copy of Netfabb This weekend I've been working with th...

...and he doth appear. I'd no sooner blogged about my work about Slice and Dice when I got an email from Alexander at Netfabb that sai...

Continued shipping delays with Netfabb's shipping have given me more time to work on my Slice and Dice alternative app than I had expec...

Bogdan began to question me about just how much stress these plastic beam modules could deal with.  When he caught on that I was post-tensi...

A month ago, I designed a light frame structure which I could post tension and use to replace much of the steel in a next generation Reprap...

I'm getting more than a few requests for the code. Please reread the previous blog entry .  If you still want the code for whatever re...

Last month, Adrian incorporated some ideas for using pixel maps that I'd used years ago with Tommelise 1.0 into what I understand is h...