I've been meaning to update this more often but life generally gets in the way.
On the life part, Amelia is now three and Lauren is crawling and cruising along standing up holding onto the edge of things. She'll be walking in no time! She's been saying "da-da" as well, it's pretty nice.
Here is a shot from Monday of Amelia at the airport sitting in Dad's plane. She loved it!
On the project end of things I've gotten a half built rep-rap i2 3D printer from my buddy Joel. I'm going to finish it off for him and use it to print the parts for a machine of my own, probably an i2 and i3 rep-rap. Once I'm done it'll go back to Joel minus the electronics for him to use as his 2nd machine for his shop.
It's a pretty amazing thing to be able to print off whatever you like in any numbers of mediums and Jackie and I are both looking at having a rep-rap with a chocolate extruder to be able to print in chocolate. The possibilities of doing it as a side business are pretty good for things like birthdays, weddings, Halloween, etc... basically any event that you'd want a custom printed chocolate, cookie or any other soft material you could pass through a syringe.
Here are some shots of the machine as it stands, all the rest of the parts needed are on order and should arrive the 1st-2nd week of July. I can't wait!
The frame and misc parts and motors.
The box of rods and belts and power supply.
Misc brackets, pulleys, gears and clamps.
Drive belt gear.
Drive belt pulley with bearing installed.
Nema-17 extruder stepper motor with orbital reduction drive.
Extruder motor/reduction drive and its mount.
Drive belt motor mount.
More updates to come as I get the parts in for the rep-rap and the build begins.
-Colin.
On the life part, Amelia is now three and Lauren is crawling and cruising along standing up holding onto the edge of things. She'll be walking in no time! She's been saying "da-da" as well, it's pretty nice.
Here is a shot from Monday of Amelia at the airport sitting in Dad's plane. She loved it!
On the project end of things I've gotten a half built rep-rap i2 3D printer from my buddy Joel. I'm going to finish it off for him and use it to print the parts for a machine of my own, probably an i2 and i3 rep-rap. Once I'm done it'll go back to Joel minus the electronics for him to use as his 2nd machine for his shop.
It's a pretty amazing thing to be able to print off whatever you like in any numbers of mediums and Jackie and I are both looking at having a rep-rap with a chocolate extruder to be able to print in chocolate. The possibilities of doing it as a side business are pretty good for things like birthdays, weddings, Halloween, etc... basically any event that you'd want a custom printed chocolate, cookie or any other soft material you could pass through a syringe.
Here are some shots of the machine as it stands, all the rest of the parts needed are on order and should arrive the 1st-2nd week of July. I can't wait!
The frame and misc parts and motors.
More updates to come as I get the parts in for the rep-rap and the build begins.
-Colin.
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