3D Printer

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Afinia H-Series 3D Printer

As my entrance into the world of 3D fabrication, I purchased and Afinia H-Series 3D printer.

It's not a top-of-the-line model. That is, I won't be printing myself a kidney and time soon. But with a resolution of 0.15mm, it will certainly fit my current needs for fabrication and prototyping.

NOTE: I'm still hastily slapping this page together, it will be cleaned up in the coming week.

Invent

The Marble Machine

This is a piece that I've designed and fabricated for my niece and nephew, to give them a look into some basic engineering. They will receive it in 24 pieces, assemble it (each piece has corresponding numbers), And accidecntally learn something while doing it. Start 'em young!

Invent

Power Switch Replacement Part

So we broke an internal part to one of our dust collection power switches in the Arvada scene shop. The TD searched for about a month, but the replacement part we need is no longer available.

Power Switch

He asked me if I could fabricate a replacement. Using my micrometer (since I don't yet have a 3D scanner), I was able to create an exact replica of the part. Which broke in the exact same place. So after a small engineering tweak, I printed out another part, installed it, and it works without flaw.

Busted

The broken part, pulled from inside the switch box.

SideBySide

The two pieces, side by side.

Final

The final preplacement piece, ready to be installed.

Scrooge's Clock

ClockBack

For A Christmas Carol, we needed to be able to control the hands of a clock, making them do different things at different times. I had to create a piece to mount onto the back of the existing clock, which housed a motor and an Arduino Uno.

Note that a 9v battery holder was added to make the unit inclusive. two small posts off of the battery holder were used to attach a small perf board for the components, including the IR receiver and the MOSFET.

NewClockBack