I’m at the point where I’m putting together the electronics for the dome lights. Most of the parts have been ordered, so in the mean time, I wanted to print the bezels for the logic display. This was more involved than I thought. Mr. Baddeley doesn’t seem to have the .stl files for the bezels, … Continue reading "Logic display bezels"
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Pie Panel #4
From my earlier post, you saw the issues I had with printing pie panel #4 with the Prusa brand ABS. I tried again with the Hobbyking ABS and it printed well. Below, the three right panels are the Prusa brand and the Hobbyking is on the left. It may just be an issue tweaking the … Continue reading "Pie Panel #4"
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My Hobbyking order of 2 Kg’s of white ABS finally arrived. There are 16 panels that need to be printed on this design. I spent most of the week printing them. There are a few panels with holes that create large bridges for the printer to span. As you can see below, I printed the … Continue reading "Printing panels"
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Not sure if I mentioned, the ABS filament I got with my Prusa printer doesn’t handle printing bridges very well. I’m out of the Hobbyking stuff and I want to use this up. I’ve been printing the pie panels for the top of Artoo’s dome. It was going well until I got to #4, which … Continue reading "Pie panels"
Read MoreMy 3D printer
If you plan on building an astromech, I highly recommend doing research on www.astromech.net. If you plan on 3D printing your droid, Michael Baddeley has a patreon page with tons of information. He has all the files for 3D printing a droid and freely shares them. It’s really great stuff. I am a patreon supporter of his … Continue reading "My 3D printer"
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