First off, Happy New
Year everybody! Yes, I'm working on New Year's Eve because I'm not doing
anything else today.
So, a few days ago I
took a trip down to the MakerSpace in Innisfil to meet Alan, one of the people
who works there helping people print off their own designs, troubleshoot ideas,
or cut something out on their ABSOLUTELY AMAZING LASER CUTTER! Anyways, he was
nice enough to take some time to talk to me about my project and possibly
supporting my project. He also invited me to next year's maker fest, which you
can look at here. I'll probably be
at the 2016 makerfest, but that's a ways away for now. I hope to have the
printer finished by the time the festival rolls around.
During a talk with him,
I realized that one of the extruders that I wanted to try was completely useless
and should be abandoned immediately. For those of you who don't know what an
extruder is, it's basically the piece of the printer that takes the plastic
from a giant spool, melts it, and lays it down on the print bed. It's got a few
different parts, and so you can see what one looks like I'll put a picture of
one in the blog as well.
Anyways, thanks to that
conversation, it saved me a TON of plastic and time, so that's good.
I'd like to extend my
thanks again to Alan and the Innisfil library for their time, and if you get the
opportunity then you should go and check it out. It's a pretty cool facility
with a lot of pretty cool people. Music recording stuff, private study rooms,
makerspace equipped with a laser cutter and two 3D printers. So go do that.
Seriously. It's a cool place.
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