Category Archives: 3D Printing

The 3D printer is dead! Long live the 3D printer!

Posted on May 8, 2021 by james

My first 3D printer, the Geeetech aluminium copy of the Prusa i3, died this week. I’ve been printing out some parts for my beehives and it began randomly stopping in the middle of prints, and then it wouldn’t heat the … Continue reading →

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DIY egg incubator and hatcher

Posted on December 19, 2018 by james

For some time now I’ve been idly contemplating the possibility of making my own incubator and hatcher for (primarily) chicken eggs as I’ve never been completely happy with the performance of my commercially-produced ones. What I’m thinking of for the … Continue reading →

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3d printer upgrade in the works

Posted on December 11, 2018 by james

Recently I’ve been trying to print some replacement cups for the anemometer on my 1-wire weather station. The existing ones have started to decay quite badly so I thought I’d try to print some replacements using PLA, with a view … Continue reading →

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3d printing project for this weekend

Posted on September 2, 2018 by james

My 3D printer kit came with a PSU, power connector socket and power switch, but there’s nowhere on the frame to attach them even if I wanted to and nothing else is provided to stop you getting a “tingly finger … Continue reading →

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A new mount clutch lever

Posted on September 2, 2018 by james

On my EQ3-2 mount I wanted to mess around with the shape of the DEC clutch lever a little to give more clearance for hardware on the mount. I don’t want to damage the supplied (metal) lever however, so I … Continue reading →

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My first 3d-printed object revisited

Posted on September 2, 2018 by james

When it came to assembling the case I’d printed it became obvious that the pillars supporting the circuit board really weren’t strong enough to withstand cables being inserted into and removed from the sockets on board the PCB. I decided … Continue reading →

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3D printer filament spool holder

Posted on August 29, 2018 by james

I decided at the weekend that I should have a proper support for the filament spool for the printer that would allow the filament to be pulled into the extruder without needing to negotiate any bends. The printer came with … Continue reading →

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Printing my first self-designed object

Posted on August 29, 2018 by james

It’s probably been time to bite the bullet for a while, so I finally decided to get on with designing something of my own to print out on the 3d printer. This is actually a case for the PCB of … Continue reading →

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Reducing stringing in my 3d prints

Posted on August 29, 2018 by james

I tried printing a couple of 3d printer torture tests (for example, this one and found quite a bit of stringing between the smaller elements that I really wasn’t happy with. To try to address that I found a quicker … Continue reading →

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Geeetech Prusa i3 Aluminium axis calibration

Posted on August 23, 2018 by james

My first step in calibrating the printer was to check the filament feed rate. There didn’t seem much sense working on anything else if filament wasn’t getting to the nozzle at the correct rate. So once again I removed the … Continue reading →

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