User:Bryanandaimee
Holiday Prusa Contest
12-18-2010: I got started late printing parts for the holiday Prusa contest, but it was such a cool idea I couldn't help it. I printed the first ten parts without any idea who would be the recipient. There were two guys at work that were interested, but neither one thought they would have time to get the thing built by the contest deadline of Jan 15 2011, so I took the parts to the December Seattle Robotics Society meeting and found an excited recipient. Look here later for updates as I finish printing parts and he gets started on the build. At left are some of the latest parts I have printed. I'll be sending these over to the recipient soon.
On a similar note one of my coworkers will be building the FrankenPrusa described below. He will be out of town and away from his shop for a few weeks, (Shop withdrawl, make it end!) so he wasn't able to participate in the holiday Prusa contest, but he'll build an SAE prusa from my first set of parts (not too pretty:) when he gets the time.
12-25-2010 Just finished printing all the parts. I'm getting the hang of this printing stuff. I haven't had a major problem printing in quite some time (see FrankenPrusa below for an account of my previous failures). So I went on Elfyourself.com as a gag and elfed my makerbot and his son Prusa. As you can see they've learned a few tricks that aren't in the manual. <videoflash type="youtube">2gc1-PQxmUk</videoflash> Or if the embedded video doesn't work just click ElfYourBot to see the video on YouTube.
FrankenPrusa
I am new to 3D printing, having just recently purchased a MakerBot. My first attempts at printing larger parts were not very pretty. I had so many failed prints of the Prusa frame vertex parts that I decided to try gluing them together to make functional parts. I used ABS glue from the hardware plumbing department and glued and clamped till I had quite a few functional pieces. I even inverted the parts and printed some intentional half prints to match the failed prints from before. A little drilling and sanding and they are quite functional if not beautiful. So what do you call a Prusa Mendel built from pieces of failed dead prints? Why FrankenPrusa of course. The holiday Prusa contest inspired me to find recipients for all this stuff and so in addition to the holiday parts that I am giving to an acquaintance at the SRS (see above), I am also giving frankenparts to a coworker to build in his spare time. I'll try to keep this updated as the projects get underway. The Frankenpart you see at the left was made from 3 different failed prints. It is definitely the most extreme example of part salvage in the FrankenPrusa. The holes still need to be drilled out and the clamping surfaces shaved flat, but I think it will work fine. ABS glue is quite good at gluing ABS parts together.(who knew!)
