Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

Actually, Darwin never really left. Despite all of the hoopla about Mendel, a very robust Reprap machine which is virally spreading ...

This morning, I bought the linear shafting; 16x2ft 8 mm diameter segments and the linear bearings; 24x8 mm linear bearings. The first tes...

Fired up the development board and it fell into a roundabout of pics. Not bad for a little 320x240 display.

My PIC32 development board arrived today! I also got a trial stepper motor controller with it. The development board looks as goo...

In which your narrator begins to cobble a next-generation Reprap controller board together out of much bigger vitamins than has previously ...

In which your narrator discovers an out-of-the-box method of making small holes for pinned hinges in small features. Recently, Chris Pal...

Many months ago, I ordered new filament for my stocks. I order exclusively from New Image Plastics in that I know that Jim Waring there ch...

In which your narrator begins to test a new conductive polymer mix. Do you want to read more? One of the long term grails of the reprap...

When I bought my Sherline lathe, I went for the loaded option.  As I am finding out, it was a very good decision.  I don't think I'...

I finally got a few days off, so this morning I began to do things with my new lathe. My initial motive in getting the lathe was to have ...

The Sherline lathe arrived on Thursday. I was working that night but stayed up extra late and more or less got it assembled. It went toge...

A few months ago, I had planned on acquiring another BfB Rapman with two print heads this time so that I could explore the use of PLA as a ...

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...