Wiki says: 3D printing is any of various processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object.
I have built my custom 3D printer and use it to download and print some usefull stuff form internet or to design and build my custom machinery.
It's been a few years since i last upgraded my 3D printer. During this time a lot of new printer features were invented and several parts got cheap enough for me. Also my printer was havilly used and few parts started to show that thay are worn out. It's time for a bigger maintenance.
We bought an ordinary Ikea lamp Vidja to the living room. All lights in the room are connected to my home automation system, thus I wanted this new lamp to connect also.
I bought a new pair of shelves above the bed. Nothing special, just Ikea. But right after mounting them on the wall I knew, that I also need to add a lamp in form of a LED strip under them. And If I say a lamp, I mean a dimmable smart lamp connected to my home system.
I was asked to print a replacement for a broken part of an elevator. I don't know where exactly this piece fits on actual elevator, but it seems to be a cover of an emergency telephone speaker.
Originally I wanted to do it my traditional way. First scan the piece using ordinary 2D scanner. Then trace outlines in Inkcape to get vector paths. Export paths to Openscad and there use several extrusions, differences, joins and other operations to create a model.
It's a while I last did some hardware project and I had an idea of building a gimbal in my head for some time now. And suddenly I discovered somebody who was selling brushless gimbal motors for cheap. That was the first impuls. I ordered these motors and started to study what is needed to control the gimbal and started to design the construction.
In the year 2018, the main theme of our camp was Pirates. The plan was, that in every game children gain coins from a treasure instead of just points. So I offered to design and 3D print these coins with our camp logo.
Before christmas 2017 we had LDTPardubice meeting and I wanted to bring there some traditional czech christmas sweets, but in original shape. In shape of the LDTPardubice logo. In the same time, my girlfriend was visiting her friends in Soria - Spain and had similar idea: czech sweets in shape of the Soria horse.
Before christmas 2017 we had a LDTPardubice meeting. We agreed on organizing a secret santa gift giving. So I was looking for some interesting gift to make. And i came up with this box with LDTPardubice logo on it.
Customizable end cap made for bicycle handlebar, but universaly siutable for covering of any hole. You can add singlecharacter image on top. It is also prepared for dualextruder printers.
The first version of my 3D printer was working fine, but as time passed, I found few things that could be improved.