A Tea between friends :-) How was Your Day

[ivan.akapulko]

Nice site, the Russians and United States have made some nice progress over the years, I follow the International Space Station updates

Yep, me too. I really love a Mars 500 program.
Breaking news, really: Kirienko, head of Rosatom, said today that developing a engine that can carry a rocket to Mars for a (sic!) month and a half. So Matt Damon with a couple of sacks of potatoes we can safely send there

[PeggyB]

Spend the last two days at a 3D printing event (RapidPro, Netherlands) with my 3d printed jewelry, and one more day to go.. Most work is SLS printed polyamide and some metals like silver,brass, steel and titanium. But the little UM2Go also shines use it to print simple pla rings optimized for the UM at all sizes and colors. Or print rings with Moldlay that will be casted in silver later on, but before that I will work on the surface with a soldering iron.
And talking to a lot of people...... today there were a lot of jewelers attending lectures and workshops, so explaining about what, how, why, what not..

Moldlay/silver rings

stand at RapidPro

[LePaul]

Be sure to hand out the web forum address!

[martin-bienz]

There is that swiss dude that rides frozen water and has designed a device that holds an iphone 6 and glides/rotates around him while skiing. Reeeeaaaly cool. I think. Look at the video, he is using an um2 to print it. He also just open sourced his build. Great guy.

[LePaul]

I wonder if he could use "green screen" colored fishing line...or something that would allow the strings to be removed in post processing?

[Anders Olsson]

Had to take it a bit easy today, been working too much lately. Too many exciting projects, long nights and too little proper sleep.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with 3D-printing, but it is quite an amazing project I think:

The guy lives not so far from where I grew up actually.
I wonder if there is something in the air at the west coast that makes people occupy them selfs with unusual projects.
It feels like my efforts to 3D-print boron carbide is somewhat an equally uncommon idea

[ivan.akapulko]

Folks, its awesome!

[LePaul]

Is that hot glue gun?

[Xeno]

Folks, its awesome!

That's some fat filament

[ivan.akapulko]

Is that hot glue gun?

I think its a soldering iron based on a old cd rom... But who know..

[Anders Olsson]

Have been abusing a Form 2 printer all day.
It was very interesting, even thought our experiments did not quite turn out as we hoped.
But we were running it quite far outside the specifications, to say the least, so we can not blame the printer at least

[martin-bienz]

But we were running it quite far outside the specifications, to say the least, so we can not blame the printer at least

Form 2, very interesting device, I follow them since the beginning. Also their role in the 3D Printing movie / documentary (can't remember the name) was rather interesting.
Can you, are you allowed, to explain "far outside the specs" ?

[martin-bienz]

This is what I am currently working on in my spare time.

I just installed some LED Worklights in our garage. The where originally on a telescope "stick", I created and printed the black piece / wall mount to fix it to the wall.

This is all to get more light on the MPCNC (Mostly printed CNC, by Allted, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:724999). It's a really cool project, keeps me busy . I have just recently fitted my 2.1 W laser module, Pen mount and ran some tests with it, next is a 300W Spindle (same as the quiet cut from inventables). Also, I still woul like to mount an extruder and 3D Print with this thing, for fun!

[Blizz]

I really wanted some CNC machine for indoors as well but I took the lazy way out and backed the Tooli on Kickstarter

[Amedee]

This is what I am currently working on in my spare time.

Nice light rack!

This MPCNC project is pretty cool, first time I see it. I am currently working on a small sturdy CNC router, but I like these lighter belt driven ones. For soft material you can make relatively large ones with a low budget.