obscurereality

Since I have more registered domains than I can shake a stick at, I’ve decided to put tentacle5.com to use. This will serve as a RepRap specific blog, and a store to sell my stuff. At the moment, it’s just all the RepRap posts from here (Which will be cross posted of course), and hopefully [...]

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Following the suggestion of a commenter yesterday (Thanks!), I used this info to calibrate the axises, some math help from Adam, and had some great success. Using a printed ruler, the process is pretty straight forward. There’s some trial and error involved, and it’s probably not 100% accurate just yet, but I’m happy with a percentage in [...]

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From the shakycam! Some things I’ve run into: If the carriage belt clamps are too tight, it restricts the carriage from moving on the X. I suspect a better carriage would fix this (Stronger material for sure) Trying to print a square, and get a rectangle. Not sure what that’s about yet. I’m guessing it’s [...]

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I got a little unmotivated getting my Mendel printing. All the problems I was having with the extruder, and a lack of time to do much with it… it just kinda fell to the side. My buddy Jordan decided he wanted it printing more than I did, and made it happen. That’s pretty awesome. It’s [...]

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There’s no doubt, the RepRap Aggregation Pipe is an amazing resource for all things RepRap. However, I don’t feel that my (this) blog belongs on it. I do write a great deal about 3D printing, but because that isn’t the sole purpose of my blog, It just doesn’t seem like a good fit. I tried to [...]

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