My Design Featured On Thingiverse!

I dove head first into TinkerCAD this weekend.  I had been meaning to play with it for a while now.

TinkerCAD is a 3D drawing program that runs in your web-browser.

I used TinkerCAD to design a "Butterfly-Comb."  All the flash and guile of a butterfly knife, but your fingers get to stay attached to your hands!

Even more exciting, the butterfly-comb was FEATURED on thingiverse the day after I posted it! :)

Butterfly Comb with Experimental Blade 2

Stick it to the man (figuratively only please!) with this open source, fun and completely functional butterfly-comb!

Based off of Techno264's excellent design, this blade has wider, curved teeth which print easily and won't break off. Also, the comb now has a blood groove, and an angled tanto point for an aggressive look :)

The butterfly-comb is completely harmless, fun to play with, and a you can really comb your hair with it!

It prints in minutes, so you can use it to impress friends when giving a demo of your 3D printer :)

Open Source Hardware Gear in the hilt :)The comb closed

The comb and original "blade"Another Thingiverse user made my comb within 20 minutes of my posting!

Download and print a butterfly Comb today :) 

Printing "Portabee"

A few weeks back, I recieved a request from a man in Indonesia for a set of "Portabee" parts.

The Portabee by Romscraj

The Portabee is a foldable, portable 3D printer designed by Romscraj

I had never printed the parts for this printer before, but I was up to the challenge :)

The set printed very nicely; I might have to build myself a Portabee too :)

A Full Set of Printed Portabee Parts

My Huxley Printing PortabeePortabee Extruder Block Hot Off the Press ;)Gears Meshing NicelySmooth to the TouchVisit the Portabee GitHub Page for the design files.

Don't miss the full color build guide pdf posted there!

Visit Romscaj's site to Order a Full Portabee Kit for $486

E3D All Metal Hot-End

Looking for a high quality Hot-end for your RepRap adventure?

Check out the E3D all metal Hot-End.

The fine folks at E3D-Online sent me one of their hot-ends for a hands-on review, and she is a beauty :)

The design is clean and effiecient.  The "All-Metal" build means that you don't have to worry about PEEK or PTFE parts failing on you over time.

It reminds me a bit of RepRap Pro's Hot-End design, but with a much a much beefier heatsink block, and it is not restricted to a bowden (cable fed) setup.

Any direct-extruder (Wade's etc.) with a 16mm circle opening should accept the E3D hot-end.  Here is the E3D Hot-End plugged into my ecksbot "eckstruder."  Two m3 bolts would be used to secure it in place.

While she would work like a charm on my ecksbot, I plan to rig her up in a bowden-setup on the Rostock Mini I am building for myself :)

I will be sure to post some pictures and videos of this nice E3D extruder shortly.

Thanks so much to E3D for sending me a prtotype of their fantastic hot end!

Check out E3d-Online's Ready to Ship, Complete Mendel90 which is for sale now!

Installing U-Joints In a Rostock

Youtube User Gdykes shares his take on installing the U-Joints on a Rostock platform.

Maybe this will inspire/assist some of the folks who have purchased Rostock parts from me ;)

New Workshop Setup

It has taken way too long, but my new California Garage-Workshop is finally setup :)

A Full-Spectrum Laser Cutter will be sitting where the Arcade Machine is shortly :)