Monday, April 18, 2022

Magnetic Build Plates on our Ultimakers!

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Today, we received our new magnetic build plate! The Prusa we have also has a magnetic plate so we decided to put one on our Ultimaker to ma...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Ev the Electron at the 2019 ALS User Meeting

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Eventually we will create a whole post about our first Kickstarter project:  Ev's Synchrotron Adventure: An Electron's Story , but I...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Tales of Many 3D printers #tbt

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[post under construction] Is there such a thing as too many 3D printers?  I contemplated this over the weekend, as Facebook "memories...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

O, Maker Tree, O, Maker Tree! (how cardboard are your branches)

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As we are nearing winter break and are in the midst of the holiday season, we decided to build a three-dimensional, recyclable, life siz...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Ritz Cracker Speaker

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          On 11/8/18 and 11/9/18 another kid and I made a Ritz cracker speaker. The outside is a normal Ritz box with letters cut out but th...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Chicken VR at the Maker Faire

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[UPDATE 10.15.18: Chicken VR is now available on Steam . Note that you will need an HTC Vive in order to play it.] One week ago, we loaded...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Metal Etching Using Saltwater

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I saw this YouTube video yesterday and decided to try this--a process to engrave in almost any type of metal using salt, vinegar/water, and...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

The Forgotten Dream: Our Glowforge Arrives! (PART 1)

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Back in October 2015, we pre-ordered the Glowforge. We, and other Glowforge potential owners repeatedly received delay-of-shipment emails, t...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

3D printed flexible filament robot hand

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Each month, we are excited to see what new filament comes in our Maker Box . This month, we received some NinjaTek Cheetah flexible filament...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Ultimaker 2 Go Disassembly and Reconstruction

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Back in April, our Ultimaker 2 Go stopped extruding.  This is not unusual.  The standard procedure is to take a look at the extruder and may...