First openSCAD encounter
"Customizable Stone Turret v1.3" Surfing the internet, I found a nice 'stone turret' created by 'drxenocide' using OpenSCAD. The stone turret uses basically a 'trimmed wedge' shape, copied many times: This is great, using one 'custom' shape, generating an object. And since it's also time to play around with OpenSCAD, why not (try to) improve […]
Core XY printer
Currently there is a hype in changing a FDM printers into a multi print head system, like ZGE Mark2. With my Ultimaker 2+ this is quite challenging: A core XY setup could be organized different, so one side of the printer is completely open. The next challenge: After many design iterations, it was time to […]
Dual material/color printer
Ultimaker 2+ printer is a great tool to own. The printer still always works. But it lacks a second color (/material) option. The 1st generation UM2+ printers were already prepared, supporting a second extrusion train: heater & feeder. Also the Marlin code is prepared for this. So adding steppers & heaters is quite straight forwards. […]
Laser cutter
The DIY CNC milling machine is nice, but working with plating requires different tooling. Why not build a laser cutter myselfs? After reading a couple of blogs about creating a DIY laser tube, that seems to be too much work, while still generating an unreliable max.40 Watt laser beam. Still very cool, but actually I […]
DLP printing
August 2013: A while ago, I was inspirited by a nice movie from Oliveira Jose about a DIY SLA 3D printing device, working with a (modified) DLP beamer. I had still a lot of questions, on how this process was working. Finally after reading a building blog on instructables by Tristram Budel, I decided to […]
CNC milling
For a while ago, I wanted to create a big cnc router. So I needed some tools to build this. Therefore I bought the HBM250, which is a mill-turntable combination. Because that combination is not very handy, I bought an additional XY cross table, for mounting the BF16 mill. Later I also bought some stepper […]
Lasers & Galvo's
Laser shows are cool, so why not build my own? There are a lot possibilities for building a laser scanners. It's all about speed and accuracy. Some people use galvo meters, some others use speakers. My first attempt was to use the computer speakers and control this with my soundcard & a text-to-wave-file-converter. But unfortunately […]
Robotics & Programming - Intro
The field of robotics is always inspiring. Both for industrial manufacturing (CNC mills, 3D printers, robot arms etc), but also from 'self-awere' devices, moving around and reacting on something... I'm hobbing around already for a long time. First more programming and lateron 'adding devices' towards my pc. Started with the LPT port as interface including […]