Resin and Mica Equals Pumpkin Madness!!! - Elegoo Mars Resin Prints!

  

About a month ago I picked up this, A Elegoo Mars Resin Printer for a mere $279 bucks. I've been pretty happy with my purchase so far.  I tried a few of their resins, translucent, translucent red, translucent green, and their matte grey resin.  All great resins.  And the printer produces some great detail results!!!  (affiliate link helps support the blog/website/youtube/me!)

Scary, Derpy, Normal

Then I wanted something a bit more on the robust side to make some functional non brittle parts.  I came across Siraya Tech's Blu - Strong Resin https://amzn.to/32pgYge .  Then I saw on the facebook group for the Elegoo Mars Printer that Bastian Stevens did something that I had been thinking about, he used mica's to color his clear resin!  I was thinking of using alcohol inks as I had seen other youtubers use those in other resin projects, and thought why not do this with some clear resin to make some custom color resins.  I like the addition of the mica as you can get a really cool shimmer effect that the photos don't do it justice.  So I created these from a file on thingiverse by user fabricke.  He has three different models.  So I downloaded then sliced them in chitubox and printed them out using 100 ml of the clear tough resin and about 1/4 of a teaspoon of orange mica https://amzn.to/2MXgaJb

As you can see in the pictures it worked out very well.  I plan on selling these at a Oct 26 pop up arts/crafts faire near Vallejo, CA.  I also take custom orders and commissions, so feel free to contact me.   

After a print the mica settles a bit in the vat of goo!

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The Joy of Practical 3d Printing AND Lasercutting!!!

So last night I decided to quickly create a under the shelf hanging spool holder for my prusa's.  I found a "L" bracket on thingiverse, by user Chuanyee223, printed 4 of these out which took about an hour and a half.  While the bracket was 3d printing, did a quick'y design in Adobe Illustrator for the lasercut wooden portion.  Threw on some cool pattern for some "flair" but just scored the pattern, should have engraved it, but then it would have taken longer than just the 10 min it took to cut out 4 of em.   Its jkust a thin piece with a hole for a 3/4in dowel to sit in that will span my entire shelf.  Here is one half of the print all assembled.

I only had some really long screws so i used them and then just hacksawed the ends off to fit nicely and then filed the burs off the edges.  I'm just using a regular dowel.  Unsure if the friction of wood on wood of the bracket,  or friction of wood on plastic of the spools, will be too much for the printers to pull the filament without causing issues. If so I could use some ptfe tubing as liner for the spool holder hole by cutting the tubing down the middle and placing into the hole, or I could just use some paste wax at the very minimum.   Of course I could 3d print a 2 part collar if needed as well. :)  That is the beauty of 3d printing and laser cutting combined, you just make what you need when you need it!

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Laser Cutting : Materials Settings Journal!!! Glowforge.

Just a quick post.Organizing my glowforge laser cut materials settings in a makee journal so i can keep track of all the various settings.  Later today will make a box to fit all the little material cards, kind of like a recipie box! :)

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3D Printing : I remixed CHEP's Brackets for Harbor Freight Storage Boxes

Hey everyone!  So I watched one of CHEP's (Chuck Hellebuyck) older videos on how he 3D printed some wall brackets to mount and hold Harbor Freight's Portable Storage Case which go for around $5.00. Here is the original thingiverse like to his files... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2399991

I decide to "lighten" them up a bit and to save on a bit of plastic by adding some holes that would not comprise the structure or holding power of the original mounting brackets as well as preserve the mounting holes of the original.  You can find my files, remixed from Chucks above, or here is the direct link...  https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2628654

Thanks to Chuck for creating these files, and dont forget to subscribe to his You Tube channel, and mine too!!! :)

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Maker Faire 2016 - Floating Artworks - Dark Hall!!!

The dark hall always contains interesting pieces of art and light, this year there was a few pieces involving magnetic levitation as well! Check out the video below!

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Maker Faire 2016 - Tapigami !!!

There is a whole exhibit made entirely out of masking tape! It started at one section of the entry hall of the main building at the San Mateo Convention Center then expanded now to the entire entryway, and even has seeped into the "Dark Hall" area!  Some awesome stuff going on, so much to look at and DISCOVER!

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Maker Faire 2016 - There Is Always Plenty Of FOOD!!!

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Maker Faire 2016 - MAKEY - He's REAL!!!

This year Shawn Thorsson was commissioned by Make Magazine to bring to life their mascot, and boy he did not disappoint!  Performed by Gordon! Makey also gets to ride around on his own personal transport!

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Maker Faire 2016 - Robots, Mechs, Dinos, And Hex-a-bots, Oh My!!!

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Maker Faire 2016 - Walk-a-bout Band!!!

I had some connectivity issues while in San Mateo,  thanks #verizon #sarcasam , so the all the posts from here on out of the #MakerFaire2016 are posting now that i'm back home  and the publishing app is working again. So sorry for the plethora of posts in such a small time frame! Don't forget you can click on the pics to make them BIGGER! Thanks! 

Always enjoy the band who performs around the #makerfaire area, and you should really catch them when they are performing and sit through the entire performance, very entertaining and toe tapping fun!

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