3D Printing from scratch
Using Open Hardware, Open Software and Open Content for 3D printing. In this short video Javier Macías creates a T-Rex Keychain and 3D prints it on his RepRap printer.
Javier Macías writes:3D Printing from scratch shows the whole process of creating new objects with a 3D printer and Blender 2.70. In this case, it is a T-Rex keychain (downloadable in from Thingiverse). The printer used is a RepRap Prusa i2
Technical information:
- Printed in plastic PLA.
- Electronic board: Sanguinololu 1.3a
- Chipset: ATmega 1284p
- Firmware: Marlin 1.0
- Workspace: x: 19cm y:19cm z: 8cm
- Layer height: 0’28mm
- Wall width: 0’4mm
- Fill density: 0.8 (80%)
- Filament diameter: 3’00mm/1’75mm
- Extruder temperature: 185ºC
- Bed temperature: 60ºC
- Nozzle diameter: 0.5mm
- Cold end: Jonaskuehling Greg’s Wade extruder
- Hot end: Customized version of the J-Head extruder
Very cool. The limits on detail and support structures for the FDM method of 3D printing always seem very limiting, but as shown here, there are still many useful things (or just playful things) that can still be achieved.