Sunday, March 11, 2018

My 3D printer is broken

At last my printer died. After more than 3 years of incredible jobs I need to replace it as fixing the one I own would cost a bit too much.

It performed incredibly well considering that it was a cheap model. I hoped to make it last a bit longer, but that's ok, I can cope with this.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

The dome - 2

After printing and gluing all the dome pieces it cames the tedious part. You need to remove the 3D printing artifacts and the defects to make the parts as smooth as possible and this could be a long lasting task...

Friday, March 2, 2018

The periscope - 1

This is another feature I wish to add to the R2 dome. In this case I found a really good model on Thingiverse, but I changed something anyway.

The biggest mod respect to the part found on Thingiverse is the top removal. This piece will be glued to a cover, so I see no need to print this also in the periscope. This way the model is also easier to print.