After two full redesigns, three rounds of print testing, and completely re-selecting materials, the holiday ornaments were ready. A short batch of print runs was enough to build ornaments for the handful of friends and family we want to gift them too. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The final print…
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BearBook Air
The 10 year old and I have strange conversations as I’m turning out his light and closing his door at bed time. Half stall-tactics, half clearing his brain from the day, these sometimes short (sometimes not) conversations range far and wide, from dissecting the day, to gaming, to story telling and general goofiness. One Friday night the…
Holiday Ornament – Second Draft
The solution to really messy edging and surface detail from the solid ornament is solvable by breaking the beveled letters apart into individual chunks, with the letter face toward the print bed. Having the letter surface on the print bed will guarantee a smooth surface, especially with translucent filaments, where even minor layer variations are very noticable….
Holiday Ornament – First Draft
With Christmas fast approaching, I decided to start designing our family ornament for the year. I wanted it to be simple, but interesting, and identifiably us. I settled on a fairly simple shape with each of our first initials beveled into a cube. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) At full…
2 Kilometers Printed!
I had a spool of gold ABS loaded into the printer after helping the 10 year old print up some gold bars and coins for a school project. I don’t have many things that get printed in gold, and I don’t particularly want this spool to sit around and age without using it up – so I pondered…
Glue Tests
It was finally time to pick a glue to use when assembling a few different projects over the Halloween weekend. There was a slight problem, though. Or a few problems. Problem 1 – I had no idea what glue to use for plastic. Problem 2 – these projects were using multiple kinds of plastic, which can be notoriously…
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…
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…