Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

UPDATE: I let my anger run away with me in this blog post. I've just spent time with Ulf Lindhe at Netfabb. Ulf has sorted out the p...

In which your narrator gets to the bottom of why it was that his 0.3 mm Rapman hot end failed and perhaps even why it started causing reset...

As I mentioned earlier I replaced to destroyed 0.3 mm hot end with one of my spare 0.5 mm hot ends and began to get used to using the large...

Okay, I got one of the spare 0.5 mm extruder heads mounted. I measured the output and discovered that I was getting swell to about 0.66 mm....

Little did I know when I was upgrading Slice and Dice to do prints of laser-cut Rapman parts that I would soon be confronting the problem o...

In which your narrator confects his own idiosyncratic method of replicating laser cut parts . The recent acquisition of the UK manufactur...

Nordom recently printed a brilliantly executed M30x70 bolt, nut and washer ensemble. I was, of course, quite jealous of his accomplishm...

The ability to reverse the extruder on my Rapman printer during transitions between print roads has reduced stringing to an enormous extent...

In which your narrator seems to have come up with a way to prevent raft peel for ABS on an acrylic print table. About two weeks ago, the ...

I decided to give the new non-loop road finder routine a tough workout to see how robust it is. For that I designed a 20 mm diameter herri...

Slice and Dice was fine as long as your parts were more or less continuous along the z-axis and not so complicated that you got a lot of cl...

In which your narrator wonders what all the fuss is all about? I guess I just don't get it. When you work with a plastic, after a wh...

In which your narrator shows you a few tricks of the trade with thin-walled prints. In my telepresence robot hand project I'm not us...