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E3D Titan Extruder – Minimum Motor Size?

August 9, 2016 Chris One comment

When E3D announced their new Titan 3D printer extruder with 3:1 gearing, I was immediately curious as to how small a motor I could get away with using.

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RUMBA+ vs RAMPS: A Thermal Analysis

July 21, 2016 Chris 3 comments

I recently got my hands on a FLIR One thermal camera, and I’d been dying for the opportunity to put it to use. I also recently received the first batch of RUMBA+ boards for testing, and I realised this was the perfect opportunity to test both.

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VR GCode Viewer

June 22, 2016 Chris Leave a comment

3D Printing and Virtual Reality are two of my favourite emerging technologies. Recently I had some fun combining them!

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3D Printer Error Detection (Part 2)

May 12, 2016 Chris 5 comments

I’ve been working on an encoder-driven system for error correction for a few months now. I posted a video last month, and after a much-appreciated post by Hackaday there was quite a bit of interest – so this is a follow-up post about the project.

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3D Printer Error Detection (Part 1)

April 5, 2016 Chris 21 comments

I’ve been playing around with magnetic encoders a lot lately in the hopes of getting some sort of error-detection system up and running. I think I’ve finally made some headway on it.

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Programming the Aus3D Z-Probe (Part 2)

December 25, 2015 Chris Leave a comment

In Part 1 I talked about the programming arrangement that I used for the first batch of Z probe boards. After flashing that batch of boards, I got to work on a slightly more automated solution.

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Programming the Aus3D Z-Probe (Part 1)

December 19, 2015 Chris One comment

One of the more interesting components in the Mark2 3D Printer is the Z probe, an IR probe that precisely measures the height of the bed for automatic bed-levelling.

This is the first product that I’ve needed to program and test, and I’ve had some fun along the way trying to make the process faster.

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Aus3D MK2 Printer Development (Part 7)

October 23, 2015 Chris Leave a comment

The mains input sockets for the Mark2 printers arrived today – I had some fun wiring them up, and I think they’re going to be included in the printers going forwards.

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Aus3D MK2 Printer Development (Part 6)

October 12, 2015 Chris Leave a comment

I’m almost at the point where I need to lock the design down and start kitting things for the December launch – a pretty daunting prospect, I must say. Before I finalise things, there’s one last idea for an improvement that I’ve been thinking about for a while – and

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TinyFan RAMPS Fan Extender

August 29, 2015 Chris Leave a comment

I previously discussed my intention to develop an expansion board to add a few extra controllable fans to RAMPS. I finally arrived at a solution I’m happy with – TinyFan.

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