3D Printing

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Valknut Dragons of the North

Valknut Dragons of the North

Multicolor printed nice and tight. Tried Vegvisir with dragons BUT (Wiki): “The vegvísir (Icelandic for “wayfinder”, lit. ‘way shower‘) is an Icelandic magical stave intended to help the bearer find their way through rough weather. The symbol is attested in the Huld Manuscript (1860), and does not have any earlier attestations.” […]

luminescent 3D printed skull and plantpot

Skullplanter revisited

It’s kind of ruined yet not. Mixing low poly luminescent color with high poly black seemed a good timesaving idea, it is not. Tried to fix it with filament pen, frustrating because the pen needs to reheat a lot. The point with luminescent filaments is: one needs ‘critical mass’ for […]

skullplanter colorisation2

3D Printing revisited

Great success!! Got multicolour filament system rolling and logged into printer locally thanks to this excellent manual: How To Enable LAN Mode on the Flashforge AD5X . For now just editing, made a succesful testrun with a lowpoly model (green = green luminescent filament) mixed with highpoly model (black). Pondering wether […]

skull finished

4 Colour 3D printer

Bought a four colour 3D printer, assembled it, did some test prints. A moving table along the z-axis seems better than a moving head, it is faster and more stable than my former 1 colour printer. Going to have so much fun with this one, need to learn it’s editing […]

3D pen

3D Pen and assorted filament

Just bought these just to get swanky if not schwifty with detailing already made 3D prints, just painting isn’t enough. Looks like a kid’s toy, very useful for repairing bodged supports or adding LED-lights. My these things go *hard* on Amazon, going to discover what a “humanized button” is.

Foctopus finished

Foctopus

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce: the Foctopus, a highly enlightened if not lit being from another dimension. Never mind its attitude. Also installed lightbar and filament end sensor in 3D printer, still hate pulling cables but everything works.

angled filament runout sensor setup with supports

Filament runout sensor mount

Going to print an angled filament runout sensor mount. Ordered a filament runout sensor because 3D printing can be stressful enough without autolevelling malfunctioning. Exact moment filament spool runs out can be easily missed after hours of printing.

extruder filament guide

Filament guides

Printed some filament guides because filament kept flinging the copper extruder bit out at the end of the spool, fairly roughly printed but works well. Bought a Creality Filament Runout Sensor because 3D printing should be fun and not some stressy control job. Noticed higher nozzle temperatures with fan at […]