It’s unsurprising that the 10 year old’s open ended school projects often result in building a new board game. This round, the game called for a series of Space Ship tokens: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The old-school/1960’s futurist vibe of the original model fit perfectly, and is captured surprisingly…
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3 Kilometer Coin
In the dizzying lead up to the holidays, our Prusa i3 mk2 zipped past the 3 kilometer mark for printed filament: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Source: 3 Kilometer Token Maker: patricknevindwyer License: Creative Commons – Attribution – Share Alike Material: Inland Egyptian Blue PLA 1.75mm Print…
Chinese Bo – Warring States Period
High quality bell making started in China somewhere around 400-300 BCE, more than a thousand years before bellfounding became well understood in western Europe. As an example of ancient Chinese technologies, it fits well into the 10 year old’s group project at school. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) This bell…
Terracotta Army – Horse
The Warrior 4 from the Terracotta Army has a companion: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The Warrior and Horse we’re well received when the 10 year old brought them to class for a group project working session. Also printed in Red Copper PLA, the horse took significantly longer, particularly…
Terracotta Army – Warrior 4
The 10 year old has a group project (we’ve already begun to teach him to despise group projects) at school researching technology in ancient China. Fortuitously we recently visited the Terracotta Army traveling exhibit at the Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, so the topic was fresh in our minds. As luck would have it, some items from…
Bestiary – Giant Owl
I’ve been getting consistently better prints, with finer quality layers, better supports, and fewer errors, using Cura 3 for slicing, compared to Slic3r. I’ve had a number of prints that failed, or had marginal errors, when slicing and printing creatures at 28mm scale. I decided to try my luck with Cura on a Giant Owl: View this post…
Min Temp Fail
Oh the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful And since we’ve no pl.. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Oh. Oh, so the fire inside isn’t so delightful. Yikes. I guess this is what happens when it’s -20℉ outside, and your printer sits below a single…
Airship 1 – Model Errors
I recently backed the RPG Tool Wargaming Printable Items Kickstarter, and received the model files in mid December. I’ve started to make my way through the models, printing as many of them as look interesting. Quite a lot of the models are supplied as components that can be combined to create more complex and varied structures. Why not…