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Jun. 3rd, 2023 03:37 pm A little over a year and a half into my 3d Printing adventure of the free-to-me printer I received as an offload from a frustrated coworker, and I've tweaked the hell out of it and swapped parts for better ones, added parts to make it better and add functionality. But one thing I missed was that one of the fans was mounted incorrectly. This is the layer cooling fan, and how it is that I was ever able to get any good prints out of this printer is astonishing to me. But I did for some time. Recently, it's been misbehaving and I've had to take it all the way back to all the calibration tests, and while doing those, I discovered the fan problem. I remounted it and built a new duct for it since the air guide it should come with was missing, and suddenly print quality improved dramatically. Imagine that. I also seem to have found some consistency in printing, which I've been chasing from day one.
My latest in printing is a Kickstarter-backed modular tabletop gaming riser called StageTop. I had been contemplating various options to build something like this. i had been thinking wood, but when the Kickstarter came across my radar, I knew it was the thing to do. This system makes it extremely easy to build risers for all sorts of table sizes and board sizes. You can build multi-tier ones if you like (think 3d chess), and all of it is engineered to be stored when broken down into a single IKEA Kallax compatible cloth box. There are basic sets and lots and lots and lots of nifty stylized pieces so you can bring ambiance into the table for your gaming style/genre.
I am probably 2/3rd the way through printing a 24x32 inch table. It does take some time, and with misbehaving printer in the last several months, I've had it on hold while trying to get things to behave.
Here is an assembly video to give you an idea of what a version of it looks like - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCmhO84ukI
I'm pretty excited to get it finished and working!
Also... as a part of all this 3d printing and given all the efforts I've devoted to it, I have decided that I want a second printer. One that is more geared towards printing and less towards "learning" about printing. I recently heard that analogy given when someone was asked what would make a good printer to get. The answer he gave was, "Do you want to print things, or do you want to learn about 3d printing?" I have learned a lot from my hobby 3d printer. I would like to learn a little less and print a little more.
I've been eyeballing the Bambu Lab P1P. It is the more affordable cousin of the Bambu Lab X1. Both are remarkable printers and they are a considerable step up from what I'm using. I had seen a video about the P1P as it relates to print speed. It is quite a thing to see it print. But I also started seeing reviews from folks who run print farms (people who make a business of 3d printing things and shipping them to people), and from every farm runner I've seen, both the P1P and the X1 are highly recommended. So with that, I'm saving up, and looking forward to new adventures in that direction.
My latest in printing is a Kickstarter-backed modular tabletop gaming riser called StageTop. I had been contemplating various options to build something like this. i had been thinking wood, but when the Kickstarter came across my radar, I knew it was the thing to do. This system makes it extremely easy to build risers for all sorts of table sizes and board sizes. You can build multi-tier ones if you like (think 3d chess), and all of it is engineered to be stored when broken down into a single IKEA Kallax compatible cloth box. There are basic sets and lots and lots and lots of nifty stylized pieces so you can bring ambiance into the table for your gaming style/genre.
I am probably 2/3rd the way through printing a 24x32 inch table. It does take some time, and with misbehaving printer in the last several months, I've had it on hold while trying to get things to behave.
Here is an assembly video to give you an idea of what a version of it looks like - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCmhO84ukI
I'm pretty excited to get it finished and working!
Also... as a part of all this 3d printing and given all the efforts I've devoted to it, I have decided that I want a second printer. One that is more geared towards printing and less towards "learning" about printing. I recently heard that analogy given when someone was asked what would make a good printer to get. The answer he gave was, "Do you want to print things, or do you want to learn about 3d printing?" I have learned a lot from my hobby 3d printer. I would like to learn a little less and print a little more.
I've been eyeballing the Bambu Lab P1P. It is the more affordable cousin of the Bambu Lab X1. Both are remarkable printers and they are a considerable step up from what I'm using. I had seen a video about the P1P as it relates to print speed. It is quite a thing to see it print. But I also started seeing reviews from folks who run print farms (people who make a business of 3d printing things and shipping them to people), and from every farm runner I've seen, both the P1P and the X1 are highly recommended. So with that, I'm saving up, and looking forward to new adventures in that direction.
