Retro Building Toys
Around April 2021 I came in contact with a small group of enthousiasts, who were investigating an old Dutch made construction toy called: Mobaco (1924-1956). After reading some posts & discussions, I wanted to anticipate to this research, but from a bit different angle: Why not make this building toy available in 3D, so everyone […]
Take Apart: Custom license Plates
Many of the take apart trucks having customizable license plates. So these trucks could be personalized. This lincese plate is generated within OpenSCAD. OpenSCAD is a programming environment for generating 3D parts. Once a part is generated, this could ao. saved as STL-file. Using this customizer is very simple: Here a screenshot how the program […]
Building Block Generator
This OpenSCad base-generator is intended to have one place to fine-tuning the main building block interfaces. Once done, this module could be used creating customized bricks. The module contains 3 main interfaces: With first two interfaces, the next bricks could be build: Usage: Update v2 20180630:+ Make a clear difference between plate & baseplate, basically […]
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. […]
CO2 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 […]