What is Desktop 3D Printing?
Imagine a robot that sits on your desk, and builds anything you tell it to from a spool of bioplastic.
Imagine that it makes these things by heating up the plastic then squeezing it out like toothpaste from a tube. Imagine it smells faintly of caramelizing sugar.
Imagine that the designs for the printer, the software that runs it, the software that designs things to be printed, and almost infinite quantities of pre-made designs, are all free.
And imagine that if you are smart, you can buy the parts to build the printer for $500. Or if you are smarter, you can buy a kit of guaranteed compatible parts for $825.
I don't have to imagine any of that, I've got it sitting on my desk right now.
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Essential tools for building a MakerGear Mendel Prusa kit
This is a list of tools I found invaluable (hey, I’ve no idea what your workshop situation is like – I hope this is not your first experience with nut and volts…)
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Tagged assembly, chocolate, kit, MakerGear, Mendel, Prusa, Tools
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Assembly Begins on my MakerGear Mendel Prusa 3D printer kit
I’ve unpacked my Mendel Prusa kit and started frame assembly. Everything in the box was well packed in mountains of bubblewrap, in individually labelled packets, which makes locating things easy. Like assembling a huge Lego model. I’ve had a couple … Continue reading
