Category Archives: 3D Printing

Impressive 6502 Home Computer

Posted on January 27, 2015 by e8johan

Dirk Grappendorf has been working on a serious looking MOS 6502 based computer. Over at his site, you can follow his development diary. The computer was developed between September 2014 and January 2015. Quite impressive, given the outcome! The entire … Continue reading →

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Open Source Knitting

Posted on February 21, 2014 by e8johan

Being married to a dress maker, this project really resonates with me. The people over at OpenKnit have created an open source knitting machine. This takes home production to a new level. I get the impression that open source support … Continue reading →

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A desktop CNC

Posted on June 13, 2013 by e8johan

As 3D printing becomes popularized, the opposite, milling (i.e. removing instead of adding material) is trying to reach the same tipping point. Over at kickstarter, the Othermill has achieved funding. Milling opens the possibilities of working with a wider set … Continue reading →

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Turn Scrap into Filament

Posted on January 25, 2013 by e8johan

One of the problems when 3D printing is the cost of filament. Especially since you tend to improve designs incrementally and end up with lots of intermediate step test prints that you need to scrap. The Filabot team wants to … Continue reading →

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The Next Level of Home 3D Printing

Posted on October 15, 2012 by e8johan

The hobbyist 3D printer prints using a thin stream of molten plasting. By adding layer upon layer, a 3D object is created. The big boys don’t do this because of problems with resolution, overhangs, etc. Now, the people at formlabs … Continue reading →

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Portable 3D Printing

Posted on October 5, 2012 by e8johan

The Ben Heck Show had an episode on creating a portable 3D printer. The idea is to fit an entire 3D printer into a suitcase for bringing to fairs and such. The video is a nice guide to the bits … Continue reading →

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Printing at Home

Posted on April 18, 2012 by e8johan

If you would have asked me two years ago if I’d have a cheap, reliable 3D printer at home, I would have laughed. And yet, here I am, waiting for a print to finish. The printer in itself, a Huxley … Continue reading →

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PLA and Temperatures

Posted on January 25, 2012 by e8johan

The eMaker Huxley 3D printer comes with a roll of while PLA from Faberdashery. A material that is new to me (I’ve only printed ABS before). PLA operates at a cooler temperature, but it requires a phase change (from solid … Continue reading →

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EMaker Huxley Wiring

Posted on January 16, 2012 by e8johan

I’ve finally found the time to wire up my EMaker Huxley 3D printer. Let me summarize the experience – trust the images, not the words, sometimes. At other times, the instructions explicitly states that the image is wrong. Generally, the … Continue reading →

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eMaker Huxley – Soldering

Posted on December 21, 2011 by e8johan

The work on assembling the eMaker Huxley 3D printer has been slowed down by other commitments, but now things are moving again. After some five hours of soldering (over several nights) the electronics are fully assembled. When buying the kit, … Continue reading →

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