3D printing
In September 2019 we bought a Prusa i3 MK3S 3D printer. Over several weekends, my 10-year-old son assembled most of it himself, with my supervision. In November 2019 we got the MMU2S multi-material upgrade but didn't get around to assembling that until February 2020, again over a few weekends.
Due to space constraints on the desk where the printer sits, we did not build the filament buffer but instead built auto-rewinders dryboxes as can be seen in the picture above. The designs are publicly available, in the repository linked below.
I started out designing things in Sketchup back when the desktop application was free, then moved to Tinkercad (which my son still uses), and worked with FreeCAD for a while. I still use Tinkercad on occasion, but now I design almost everything using OpenSCAD.
OpenSCAD seems daunting at first because you design things via a programming language and a GUI viewer instead of a full GUI experience, but now I find it easier to create things in OpenSCAD than any other 3D design software.
Articles
- New approach to screw threads in OpenSCAD
- Building the strandbeest
- Simulating erosion
- Legitimate uses of loaded dice
- Whose hands are biggest? You may be surprised
My designs
My username is Anachronist on Printables and Amatulic on Thingiverse. I use Printables as my main repository with Thingiverse as a backup.
All of my designs come with the OpenSCAD source code for anyone to modify (except for my drill bit and King Kamehameha spear head, which come with Tinkercad models).
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