yay, 3Dprinter

[piranha]

it's here! it came on friday. sometimes i am still amazed at how quickly things can be shipped from one side of the world to the other.


first triangle assembled


basic frame assembled

it's kinda funny; the paramour and i have seen this printer in lots of pictures and videos, but it still seems small when it sits on your workbench.

i can already tell that this isn't gonna be my favourite configuration; it's very, very fiddly to adjust.

but i am totally thrilled that it's here. one printed part is broken, and unfortunately it's an important part that can't really be jury-rigged; the x-axis motor end. there's also nobody we know locally who could just quickly print that part for us. so i'm gonna try and glue it; hopefully the JB kwikplastik i bought will work with PLA.

Comments

[afuna]

Very cool!

[flarenut]

Yay! Yeah, they're really not very big. When I started building my (never finished) prototype it was huge compared to the Cupcake.

The good thing, of course, is that even if you can only hold the broken part together with ductape, that can be the second thing you print once you get it working...

[piranha]

yeah, i am banking on holding it together just long enough to print another copy.

then again, now that i've looked at a lot of people's first prints; it might not be the second thing we print. ;)