> AFAIK anyone can sell any printed thing regardless > of the license. The license only covers the files, > not what is produced from the file. So if you > license something as NC it means that no one can > sell the files, but anyone can use them to produce > an object and sell it. Sure it will piss off the > community and goes against the idea of the license > but they arby billyzelsnack - General
> I also hear it is closed source (investors in the > way?) which I believe is against the license they > released the replicator 1 with and this is clearly > a derivative of that printer. As the author Makerbot is not bound to that license. The license only applies downstream.by billyzelsnack - General
Are your electronics powered by both USB and external power?by billyzelsnack - General
The "Mojo Printer review" link above.by billyzelsnack - General
2000 hours? Under load? Amazing. Nevermind my comment then. btw. Very cool blog. PS. Your link is broken.by billyzelsnack - General
I'll just copy/paste a post from my g+ projects page from the other day. I'm drilling aluminum with 0.5mm bits so it's not exactly what you're talking about, but maybe you'll find the video interesting. ------------ Here's my current process for making the nozzle tip and drilling the nozzle hole. I'm still a beginner at using a lathe so any tips are certainly welcome. These are the 0.5mm bitsby billyzelsnack - General
> The problem here is not that companies will close > up IP to avoid copying, instead of releasing open > source; they do that anyway. We can't do anything > about. Not actively turning people away by defending only the letter of the law and not the spirit is something that can be done. Society has many unwritten rules and being unwritten does not make them invalid. > But castiby billyzelsnack - General
I wonder if he even built the one in the video or if it's just a Replicator that he bought and changed the badges.by billyzelsnack - General
Have you seen the InMoov? That should shut them up.by billyzelsnack - General
Acumen Wrote: > Frame rigidity affects how accurately the affector > is positioned, so it certainly does affect print > quality. Sure, but you have to get everything else worked out first before its effects start showing up. What most people would consider quality prints are completely attainable without having a rigid frame.by billyzelsnack - General
I disagree that rigidity is important for quality prints. Consistent flow and consistent layers heights are the most important factors IMO. Neither requires a rigid frame.by billyzelsnack - General
1. Everything. 2. Even if you buy a prebuilt machine you will need to maintain it which is not necessarily trivial. Have you seen the UP!? It's not really meant to be user serviceable, but I get the impression that it is quite reliable. 3. Your machine will work until it does not. Troubleshooting is what DIY 3dprinting is all about. As for size. The larger you go the more trouble you are askingby billyzelsnack - General
How tessellated is the model? Maybe the banding IS more correct? The higher speeds might just be rounding them out. Is this just a single perimeter? What nozzle size? What thread width?by billyzelsnack - General
> 3. The part does not de-laminate when put under > shear force (numbers ?). Is the part you printed above seem nice and strong? I grabbed the one out of my junk box and because it is not tall and deforms so easily I could not get it to delaminate at all using my fingers. Maybe the test part needs to be twice or so as tall to better showcase ease of delamination.by billyzelsnack - General
Looks good. Do you have some close-up pics?by billyzelsnack - General
> edit: As far as the 3d scanner ability maybe (I > don't do cell phones as that is just another > anchor and point of control) but it will not have > the abilities we need with million point > resolution that can be stuck into a stl file. Leap 3D motion control system is 100 times more accurate than Kinect, will cost $69.99by billyzelsnack - General
> I suspect the strangle hold they will do to us > will be to keep that scanner expensive JUST like > Hollywood has for the last 4+ years for Blu-Ray > burners and blank media for the PC. Who is "they"? My opinion is the opposite. I suspect that every new mobile phone will have decent 3d scanning capabilities within the next 2 years.by billyzelsnack - General
What layer height and nozzle size? Vids please. When I look around on youtube I don't find convincing evidence. I just see people claiming high speeds where the video obviously shows it is not achieving it. The videos are also terrible at showing decent shots of the final print. This is the best evidence I have found. It is printing very fast at "only" 100mm/s and the quality looks decent withby billyzelsnack - General
What I'd like to see is people showing off their overall build time improvements. A video of two non-contrived prints. One at 20mm/s for a quality baseline. One at whatever. Both prints of similar quality, but one taking significantly less overall build time.by billyzelsnack - General
> but a missed opportunity. For the record, it is > becoming commonplace for RepRaps to exceed 100mm/s > (Prusa's) and many cases 200mm/s (MendelMax, > Ultimaker), the latter should be the benchmark. It is commonplace for people to post about their printers going that fast, but it is not commonplace for people to post the results of their printers going that fast.by billyzelsnack - General
It's hard to tell scale. It looks like a NEMA17, but a NEMA17 would weigh more than 210 on its own. btw. That seems like a good idea laser cutting the gears. Probably quite a bit less expensive than buying them.by billyzelsnack - General
Cold?by billyzelsnack - Competitions
Do you have ferrite cores on your USB cable? I was getting random microcontroller reboots on one of my machines until I switched to a USB cable with ferrite cores.by billyzelsnack - General
My print is just ok. My hotend/extruder is designed to be compact and lightweight and not a speed king. It was printed with however my machine was setup using whatever my settings were when I saw the model posted. I could spend some time tweaking the print for this specific model and get it nicer, but that might make my regular prints less nice. I think some of the backlash you are seeing is thaby billyzelsnack - General
KISSlicer does not have jittering so all the retract starts are on top of each other. I can't find the circle bit in my junk box. There was zero oozing between the stick and the circle. The circle was not the nicest due to the it being subdivided so much and my 115200 Marlin baudrate not able to keep up. The translucent PLA also shows off a little bit too low of flow around the corner section. Kby billyzelsnack - General
This is from the day the test model was posted. I just grabbed it out of my junk prints box. I printed it with whatever my printer was set at the time and likely at 40mm/s.by billyzelsnack - General
>3Der Wrote: > Any other tips for selling reprap kits? Don't sell kits until you have at least 6 months building/printing experience.by billyzelsnack - General
What speed are you printing at? If you can't get a near perfect print at 20mm/s for everything then don't go any faster until you can. I'd also recommend using Slic3r or KISSlicer because there are just way too many nobs in Skeinforge that IMO are only useful once you have a well tuned printer.by billyzelsnack - General