Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Fails!

During the process of making and printing stuff from our 3D printer, we made a lot of fails! Here is a list of them that my DAD did:
  • While trying to hammer a piece into a rod, he cracked the piece.
  • Deleted all the firmware on the circuit board.
  • Cracked a foot of a Robot.
  • And more I can't remember!
Now the mistakes I did:
  • Dropped a Robot and his head came off.
Also we printed a cute little elephant and robot. We first had a few difficulties due to Slic3r. Then we fixed it by "correcting" the slicing code. After we did that, we started making a lot of them! I even gave one away!!!

Again, also the 3D printer failed today! One of the pieces that turns a gear to move the printer up and down, was STRETCHED!!! We don't know what happened but I'll keep you posted!

BTW: I will post photos of the FAILS later!!
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  1. David IJuly 9, 2014 at 8:46 AM

    I think the Z-coupler stretched because the filament got tangled feeding off the spool and kept the print head from moving properly. The controller then thought the head was in a differnt location than it actually was. When the end of the gcode tried to return the print head to (0,0,0), the head was out of postion, and augered into the work piece. The Z-motor kept running which ended up stretching the coupler.

    There are several fixes you could do:
    - Get a different spool holder. The horizontal one you made is more prone to jams.
    - Change the ending g-code to just stop the head rather than moving back to zero.
    - Replace the current Z-coupler with a spider coupler. Instead of stretching, this type will separate into two pieces that can be easily reconnected.

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