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Spaceship Chair Tested By Space-Man!
*Extra! Extra!* Dateline: June 14, 2011, Milwaukee Makerspace Ron Bean recently wowed the world & the Milwaukee Makerspace with his new invention, the “Spaceship Chair”. Now everyone is wowed...
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Nerdy Derby Car From The Future
I made the car “Sling Shot” to enter in the 2012 Milwaukee “Nerdy Derby” at Barcamp7 this weekend. A lot of people were talking about adding motors and fancy electronics, but my car is powered by a...
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Successful CT scan processing into 3D printable file
Today was spent researching all the manipulations involved in getting a CT scan into printable form and I managed to get a print out of it. The process starts with DeVide where the dicom data from the...
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SnakeBite Extruder Works!
I repaired the Budaschnozzle hot-end over the weekend and bolted the SnakeBite extruder to it and then to MegaMax and tested it last night. There’s plenty of tuning to do, but the first print looks...
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CNC Mogul Introduction
A few weeks ago Mike Stone of CNCMogul.com visited the Milwaukee Makerspace. Mike donated one of his machines to the space for testing and feedback as well as to use for the membership. It should also...
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First Ever Test of the 3.5 Liter Syringe Extruder
My last post showed how I made a plunger for a 3.5 liter syringe. Today’s post is the results of the first ever test of that syringe assembly including the plunger. The goal of the test was to...
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Chocolate Cooling System Almost Ready For Testing
Chocolate printer progress continues. This week was devoted to the print cooling system. The chocolate will come out the extruder nozzle in a semi-molten state. It needs to solidify by the time the...
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This week I attempted the first test of the chocolate printer cooling system. The cooling system is intended to solidify the chocolate just after it leaves the extruder nozzle so that by the time the...
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