Unfortunately the theft of reputation is probably even more difficult to prove, how to place a value on it? Like the ebike scam on Indiegogo where people used my images for the JayHawk campaign, and almost got away with $35k...Deliberate fraud & IP Theft but what are IndieGogo going to do to chase the Copyright Infringement Fines, what can they do to repair any consequential damages to my repby MechaBits - General
Orange n Black nice combo.by MechaBits - General
only joking I knew when you said Ireland you didn't mean the other tiny little enclave... the orange lodge(order), you know the rather obnoxious crowds that parade the street every now & then thinking they own the place The Grand Orange Lodge It is a Protestant-only, Masonic-style fraternity that defends/promotes Protestantism, conservatism, Britishness, and the continued unity of the Uniteby MechaBits - General
What in the UK half? bloody orange lodge!by MechaBits - General
Wet is the pretty much the norm, in UK especially today, it was the little boxes out the window had me believe it was UK. With a name like Deacon I always think blue...and frost too, even though its white. so now wonder you wanted the warmest colour you could find.by MechaBits - General
Looks like a standard UK weather Deacon, no wonder you chose orange to brighten things up. Don't get me wrong when I talk about folly, follies can be really cool, and the beauty of 3D printing is that you can use it to build as many follies as you want from the comfort of your own home. Small scale follies compared to architects who build much grander follies. When I started out designing my prby MechaBits - General
Lol, for whom the bell tolls, if ever there was any doubt on the tripe that might get taught to people in education... no wonder there is a lack of quality engineers...you want ding dong pull the rope, next lesson Seriously though anyone who would buy it needs their head feeling.by MechaBits - General
Again Reggie was opposed to this course of action. Frank proved to be a liability, he was a wanted man hidden away in a flat in Dagenham. He wanted to be part of the Kray empire but in reality was a child in a heavyweight wrestlers body. He became agitated and threatened their empire, they didn't want to but had no choice except to kill him. Had he lived he would probably have spent the rest of hby MechaBits - General
Interesting little experiment https://www.facebook.com/ElectricaTechnology.org/videos/788576424586782/by MechaBits - Experimental and Hobby
Yes 3D printing great for molds, I was going to chime in on the other thread about how it still has its uses for building a decent strong frame, even if the parts just used as a mold for something else.by MechaBits - General
I wouldn't pay £100 for a bell with no ding! For that money I would want real wood & metal. Write to gumtree, take down notice.by MechaBits - General
And talking of theft/ coincidence? I just found this http://secure.twitch.tv/mechabits No info just name holding, this has happened before to me, this looks like a new registration, now there is also a game company in Liverpool created a game called mechabit... but I think maybe they have branched out into bits or its some other fan, or some canny domain squatter.by MechaBits - General
The Crazy thing is they seem to have done a good job of it, but cant tell from the picture, you would think they had the skills to do their own design work, wonder if they just picked up a bell from second handshop or had it made? Wonder if people order do they get the product? As for what can be done about this, seems the only way to get any traction is shaming them through social media, maybeby MechaBits - General
I think I'm going to stay with ptfe lined idea for time being, this doc needs some reading but might helpby MechaBits - General
From that pic 0.1 looks cool,0.5 looks a little rougher, 0.3 looks good enough, you might want a more diffuse specular highlight, and faster print, i'll be quite happy with either of them.by MechaBits - General
This guys machine would grind some nice airtight fittings with 1 micron accuracy, I want one of these machines. would make a lot of things possible. Thanks for the recap of the problem, and the nasa lesson I knew they where some sort of foam but didnt care about ingredients sand or sea shells just the method ie heat shield tile. A little like the Nasa ppl not caring about the properties of thby MechaBits - General
all I know is it goes up, I picked higher torque motors, didnt check the pots on stepstick, I dont know if Im driving 2A motors at .4A, I have no idea, I didnt need to tweek or fiddle, I was waiting for the ceramic screwdriver to arrive and just went ahead without it...it works, move 10mm seems 10mm could be 11, I wont know until its fully setup. slowly slowly print a monkey I got a long way to gby MechaBits - General
yes i agree the patent system is not fit for purpose, costs a fortune to litigate, no one will help, lawyers will try to take your money, and even if you win, getting compo would be another battle, the way of the wen encourages sharing, but sometimes just one time it would be nice to see some payback for time & effort & ideas, not sure how to fix that one, but you have some design rights,by MechaBits - General
A few more images of the latest revision.by MechaBits - General
there are a number of ways to approach it,I'm not suggesting I've solved anything yet, the part where the materials meet is the one of the many areas I have little practical experience with I'm just trying a design based on the space I have to work with, hoping some other bright spark will rip off the design and produce it in china cheaper than I can make it, or they work out some other tiny wby MechaBits - General
Nice, pity we cant hack a spark plug for something interesting.by MechaBits - General
I was wondering same things... I have leadscrew as above, 16th microsteps (but wondered about half 1/8th steps) I thought I had things setup ok, I thought I would be happy with a machine with 0.1mm accuracy for a first build, but also thought about the possibilities of greater accuracy on the layer heights as this thing seems so simple, up a bit, up a bit more.. for the amount of hardware incorpoby MechaBits - General
Now there's a word i'll have to look up "intercalate" The renders when done might show this easier, but while there are minimal parts with only a few combinations of assembly I had wondered the same thing, I hope to take away any heat in the steel tube asap with heatsink heatblock with ceramic ontop to try to stop rising radiant heat from block, so the most direct route for heat would be the up sby MechaBits - General
Yes ceramic tube if used as heatbreak, as in your picture, but i was thinking of keeping steel tube for now and cold end heatsink, as i cant be sure I could find or make the ceramic part with right properties, ie a nicely reamed hole, or smooth glaze, correct volume melt zone, I have a smooth ceramic terminal block with a tiny hole in it, looks bigger than 1mm less than 2, though I cant tell howby MechaBits - General
So a ceramic block(nasa tile) could be put on the top of the ali block to help keep the heat directed downwards but would still creep up the steel throat. Wonder if the coating that is applied to some Ali heatblocks to minimize hotend crusting could be applied to the throats too. Going to rearrange the Trilobyte into a triangular Toblerone version (must be my sweet tooth, and all the talk of honby MechaBits - General
Yes heats up slowly doesn't mean it doesn't heat up(same with silicone), maybe that also means you could cool it quicker, I feel ceramic might have a use just not sure where, is it any easier to cool than aluminium, I was wondering if the terminal blocks could be used in the transition/melt zone, above copper or ali' heater block, or between throat & ali' cooling fins, if it helps or hinders.by MechaBits - General
Hmm more explanation, I cant explain the materials they may or may not exist yet(Super Honey), just having the ability to do it, even if we have to wait for right materials. I'm not sure i said the printed part is ONLY a skelington.... like I wouldn't say what holds us up is only a load of old bones, it's only a chassis, sub frame, or any other of those things we hardly ever see, like carbon fibby MechaBits - General
Quoterealthor in my case I would like the capability to create closed hexagonal chambers (at least by creating another skin every X mm in height but I'd like those to be random for each hexagonal tube, not all at the same height) rather than continuous tubes. Something like this: Imagine if half of those chambers where linked with holes in the walls, so you could dip the thing in some sorby MechaBits - General
Could this be adapted to do what you need?by MechaBits - Let's design something! (I've got an idea ...)