3D Printing Latest projects I've been working with a new FPGA called the Mercury 2. It has 5 volt tolerant GPIO pins, so I can interface it with my Lunetta synthesizer experiments.
3D Printing The main reason I decided not to get a Prusa Mini So when I looked over at it taking up some of my table space, I considered what I could do to replace it with something smaller. I immediately thought of the Prusa Mini.
3D Printing Error: !! STOP called because of BLTouch error - restart with M999 I recently got a new error on my 3D printer. Error: !! STOP called because of BLTouch error - restart with M999 It turns out that the connector to my Z endstop was faulty. I was able to put a new JST connector [https://amzn.to/2Zi0Mye] on there and it
3D Printing Why I love my 3D Printer A few years ago, I bought my first 3D printer. It was a Geeetech i3 Pro V Prusa clone. I bought it as a kit off of ebay based on a recommendation from the Design. Prototype. Test. YouTube channel. He did a video where he compared budget 3D printer kits
3D Printing Installing the MicroSwiss Direct Drive on my Ender 3 Pro I recently ordered the MicroSwiss Direct Drive unit [https://store.micro-swiss.com/collections/extruders/products/micro-swiss-direct-drive-extruder] with the all metal hotend for my Ender 3 Pro. I was going to upgrade the extruder to an all metal extruder kit from WINSINN [https://amzn.to/2VMcJtW] and then upgrade the hotend
3D Printing Handling Extrusion Issues on the Ender 3 In this post, I'll go over some techniques and products that I use to help me with my extrusion issues.
3D Printing Is 3D Printed Terrain the Future, or just a passing Fad? I have to admit, I bought my second 3D printer (an Ender 3 Pro) with the sole purpose of using it to print terrain for a Pathfinder game that I am the GM for. However, after buying, downloading, as well as designing my own terrain, I feel that something is
3D Printing Ender 3 Woes - Time for maintenance I recently started printing some large objects. The prints were taking between 14 and 16 hours. After printing 2 pieces (I'm printing an update of this Shuttle [https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/245884/Space-Shuttle-Alpha] from the 2nd Dynasty Starship III Kickstarter), I noticed that I had some bad extrusion problems.
3D Printing Setting up Klipper with Ender 3 and BLTouch After following the installation steps and getting Klipper running on my Raspberry Pi, the biggest issue I ran into was calibrating my Z offset. I spent hours on this task alone. Here's how you calibrate your Z offset with a BLTouch and Klipper.
3D Printing Getting things to stick to a glass bed on my Ender 3 So, today I printed a 3.25 hour print. it took me three failed attempts using a brim (the brim kept coming off the bed) on my glass bed. I tried to raise the temperature to 65, then to 70. Still no luck. Then, I saw a video that taught
3D Printing New Design - Futuristic Computer Terminal I posted my latest design to Thingiverse. This is the first one that I've developed completely in Fusion 360 that I didn't use the Lithophane generator for.
3D Printing New Designs on Thingiverse - Jan 21, 2019 Here are a few designs that I've posted to Thingiverse lately
3D Printing New 3D printed case for my Raspberry Pi I recently installed OctoPrint [https://octoprint.org] on my Raspberry Pi [https://amzn.to/2DM8kxV] so I could remotely control my 3D printer. I needed a good case for the Pi. I found one that allows me to mount the Pi to the 3D printer. Raspberry Pi 3 Case for
3D Printing Installing the BLTouch auto bed leveler on my Ender 3 Pro The original post that I made became obsolete once the BIGTREETECH SKR Mini E3 board was released, so I decided to update it with the new information. The main difference is that you no longer need the Pin 27 board to add the BLTouch. You can use the SKR Mini
3D Printing Simple 3D printed vase code for OpenSCAD I goofed around with OpenSCAD tonight and came up with a little module that I'm using to create models to be printed in vase mode on my 3D printer. You can find the STL files on Thingiverse - cerkit Vase #1 [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3317913]. My first vase
3D Printing Programming + 3D printing = bliss I just wrote my first program using OpenSCAD. It's a free tool for writing code that generates 3D models. It's very powerful and I wanted to give it a try. I decided to create a "maker coin" (something that Angus on Maker's Muse [https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMakersMuse] does
3D Printing 3 Simple upgrades for the Ender 3 3D printer I just watched a great YouTube video from CHEP [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdc_0ZTXikARFEn2dRDJhg] about 3 simple 3D printer upgrades for the Ender 3 [https://amzn.to/2LZWfvB]. I decided to download and print two of them. One of the upgrades is a mounting bracket for the spool
3D Printing Creating a stone texture for RPG Gaming tiles In this post, I will demonstrate how to create a stone textured RPG gaming tile
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3D Printing Create your own 3D Printed Terrain Tile with complex shapes - Anyone can do it with free software Learn how to create your own 3D printed terrain using 2D image tools like Gimp, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo.
3D Printing Printing RPG Tiles with my 3D Printer One of the reasons I bought a new 3D printer was so that I could print my own miniatures and terrain for our roleplaying game. Note: The STL files of all of the tiles in this post can be downloaded from my profile [https://www.thingiverse.com/cerkit/about] on
3D Printing My new 3D Printer (Creality Ender 3 Pro) is fully assembled I recently ordered a new 3D printer. I built my last 3D printer from a kit and it took me about 5 or 6 hours to complete. I had this one assembled in about an hour.
3D Printing My first 3D printed terrain design I ordered a new 3D printer yesterday. We're about to start a new GURPS [http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/] campaign and I wanted to start using 3D terrain. There's an entire world of hobbyists designing 3D printed terrain. I'd like our adventures to take place in the modern world, as
3D Printing 3D Printer Z-Axis Woes In a previous post [https://cerkit.com/2018/01/30/my-first-3d-printer-the-geeetech-i3-pro-b/], I discussed my new 3D printer and I briefly mentioned that I'm having z-axis banding issues. I'm not quite sure what's happening, but I initially had severe z-axis banding before printing out some "Z axis fix" parts [https://www.
3D Printing My first 3D printer - the Geeetech i3 Pro B (Prusa Clone) Back in the day... When I was a kid (back in the 80's), I used to come home from school and watch a great TV show about future technologies. I don't remember the name of the show, but it had some interesting ideas. One of those ideas was this notion
