I take it you have all heard about Luban?  Yes, that program where you can make your models into multiple parts. Well, it’s now going a lot further by adding a lot more features! So, here we will be talking about LuBan features! The new ones and old, so what ... Read More »

That’s a HUGE Duck! The Great Duck Project was created a joint effort between two groups, The Maker Faire Westport and the Westport Sunrise Rotary club.  Mark Mathias, the founder of the Maker Faire Westport, decided to use his 3D printers to put a spin on things.  In fact, the ... Read More »

Introduction If you haven’t yet, check out my article on the Velocity Painting technique.  To quickly summarize my previous work, this post processing technique varies the speeds of your model’s outer shell to give it a texture, picture or design. This is a very cool concept and I applied it ... Read More »

**Update: 2/14/19** While I walked you through this tutorial on Velocity Painting using Gcodes sliced with Cura 3.6, I didn’t initially notice any problems.  You may not either depending on what you are printing. I have found some serious flaws with how the Velocity Painting app interprets travel movements within ... Read More »

When I first heard about Luban, I was skeptical. Not because of what it could do, but because of the purpose, it would serve. Luban was designed to split large print jobs into smaller sized chunks that make it easy to make GIANT prints on a typical (200mm x 200mm) print ... Read More »

NanoDLP is a powerful, alternative, control software for DUP/DLP/SLA printers. Using a Raspberry Pi3 as the mainboard for the software. It’s incredibly useful for the Wanhao D7 because it enables you to control the printer remotely from a web interface. You can upload files to print using Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection, as ... Read More »

Have you ever wanted to print or view your 3D printer remotely?  I am going to show you how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a lean, mean, video streaming, and 3D print serving machine… with Octopi! What is Octopi? Octopi is a free Linux based operating system built around ... Read More »

It is really important to make sure your 3D Printer Build platform or “bed” is at a level distance on all points of the bed with the extruder nozzle. There are two ways of doing this, manual and automatic bed levelling.  Manual Bed Leveling Manual is moving the extruder head to ... Read More »