Monument Valley – Totem

  Everyone in the house has played, and often continues to play, Monument Valley. It felt like the house needed a Totem friend of its own. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) This Totem is at half scale from the original model, primarily to speed up printing time. View this…

Print Fail – Bed Thermal Runaway

Half way through printing a series of pieces for a Cosplay prop, I was greeted by this: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) I tried restarting the print for the model I was using, and it automatically stopped with the same error twice more, each time about 5 minutes into…

Print Fail – Trapped TPE Filament

I picked up a small roll (0.5kg) of a translucent blue TPE flex filament to try out, and started with a dead simple rectangle as the sample print. Probably wise that I started with something small: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Fairly certain that’s not where the filament is supposed…

Undermountain Dungeon – Print 2

We’re building another dungeon, this time the Undermountain. The Undermountain is a series of tunnels and rooms that once belonged to a dwarven stronghold, but have been taken over by an ancient wyrm and its devout goblin worshipers. This is a project spanning lots of different prints, until we generate all of the tiles we need for the…

Wireframe Skull

In the spirit of Halloween, I tried out a wireframe skull model, intending it to be a pencil jar for the 10 year old. At default scale it’s unfortunately a bit small. Maybe a (singular) pencil jar… View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Interesting that the print time estimate was so…

Undermountain Dungeon – Print 1

We’re building another dungeon, this time the Undermountain. The Undermountain is a series of tunnels and rooms that once belonged to a dwarven stronghold, but have been taken over by an ancient wyrm and its devout goblin worshipers. This is a project spanning lots of different prints, until we generate all of the tiles we need for the…

Turquoise Vase as Pencil Holder

Another curved vase, like the 50% scaled vase, this time a bit bigger, a bit stronger, and a different color: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) My goal for this print of the vase was something big enough to hold pens and pencils. It needed to be sturdy enough to withstand…

LEGO Compatible Pentagonal Angle

While it’s possible to hack together LEGO solutions for strange angles and shapes, wouldn’t it be nice to have pre-built blocks to help build the regular polygons? I’ve had my eye on the various LEGO compatible SCAD files and customizers, and decided to try one of them out. Using a simple 2×2 plate block as the foundation, I built…