Marble Tracks
These marble track parts from Hubelino are great! The fit very well on top of Duplo bricks, so building different marble tracks are very easy & fun to play with. The 'basic building box' provides a good basis. What other fun bricks could be added to the system? There are ofc. some copycats, but there […]
Train track funnels
This train track funnel customizer is most complex version of all. The funnel starts with one defined entrance, but could have countless end points. The end points are defined as an array of: Then a 2nd order curve is calculated for each track, which will then be used with path_extrude() function from the amazing dotSCAD […]
Train crossings
After building some straight & curved tracks, let's increase complixity: train crossings. This customizer has some predefined shapes: Sample crossings: Parameters Dependicies This customizer uses the Building Block Generator. So all interface parts should alreay be fine tuned for printing. Prints Someone at thingiverse posted the biggest (#6) crossing. This one needs a big printer!
Train Tracks & small bridges
Time for another customizer, let's make some standard tracks for trains. The customizer mainly creates: Dependicies This customizer makes use of other tools: Parameters Track parameters: Ramp parameters: Geometry parameters: Here some pictures of the effect of those parameters: Building tracks The different parts are heavily used: Issues inclined tracks: Looking carefull to these curved […]
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. […]
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 […]