Yesterday I had one of those moments of disappointment again, which one as an inventor unfortunately has again and again. I read an article reporting that a patent had been filed for volumetric 3D printing. At first I was very disappointed, because I thought about it a few years ago….
Basically it has to be noted here that it is not really worth to model threads for 3D printing in plastic. 😉 Sure, there are plugins for many CADs, so that you can model threads, but the only method I would try is 3D printing in metal. But I suppose…
Unfortunately an error crept into my new filament calculator, which led to the fact that I included invisible fields in the calculation, which led to strange results. I was able to fix that now and hope you’ll send me more feedback about the filament calculator.
If you print a lot of 3D, you surely know the problem that you want to run a job, but you don’t know if there is still enough filament in the printer. All slicer software I know adds a comment line in the gCode file with the expected length in…
I came across a very interesting article on one of my favourite websites (https://hackaday.com/2018/11/01/adaptive-layer-height-on-the-monoprice-select-mini/) came across a very interesting article about the possibility of Cura to generate variable, (adaptive), layer heights. We know that an FDM print with 0.3mm layer height is printed much faster than a print with 0.1mm. But…
The theoretical delivery date of my Kickstarter supported resin printer (SparkMaker FHD) is approaching. I know from experience that you need a lot more equipment for a resin printer than with an FDM printer. That’s also the case if you have an SLS printer and probably one of the reasons…
Photo by Eiliv Sonas Aceron on Unsplash Recently, Google+ in the 3D printing community raised the question of how it is possible to produce food-compatible 3D prints, as some FDA-certified 3D printing material is now available. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that the first thing I would do…
Even if it was quiet here, and no one has heard from me, I have never really been away. It just happened a lot in the meantime and I did a lot of other things and didn’t find the time to blog anymore. Now I want to change that again….
Ben learnt the mechanical craft from scratch in the workshop and then as a technical merchant. He then worked for a few years as a database programmer.
Then he studied mechanical engineering.
And he has completed some CAS trainings in Data Science.
Today he develops special machines for a special machine construction company in Switzerland.
In 2014 he founded the FabLab at Winterthur, Switzerland.
He's main hobbies are his girlfriend, inventing new things, testing new gadgets, the FabLab Winti, 3d-Printing, geocaching, playing floorball, take some photos (www.belichtet.ch) and mountain biking.
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