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3d printed head phone holder for table plate

I had a problem at my work desk: Where to put the head phones? I've put them on the pc case where they may have covered a small portion of the air flow from the case. It isn't bad, but it is not ideal neighter. And of course it was troublesome to put the cables of the head phones in a suitable position. To solve that problem I have created a design for a head phone holder for the table plate. He can be put on the table plat as seen in the first ...

Complex 3d print: Door traffic light

Today a new 3d printed piece has been produced in my small home factory. A relativly complex traffic light for doors to bee assembled. What is a door traffic light? With this you can define, whether a visitor is welcome, you are busy but if it is important the visitor can come in or if there is too much to do right now to have a visitor. This can be used for converence rooms to tell people outside if this is a very important customer meeting ...

Spice Bed Signs

Since we recently moved with our company to a new place, we are now pleased with much more space and a small garden. Some of my colleges created a new spice bed in that. Someone asked for signs so that we can tell which one is groving where... asked for? Done! WIth a 3d printer everything is possible ;).

Xmas 2014

Today is the holy night and I want to thank anybody reading this blog for their support and wish all of you AND your families happy christmas. :) This is a small xmas tree which has been printed upside down and is now standing on the desks of my collegues as work. To avoid long printing times and overhangs I printed it that way because a print with ABS & PVA takes approximately 2.5 time longer than this one. At the end I broke of the stand ...

ABS & PVA Print on my Makerbot Replicator 2x

My first 3d print with ABS and PVA as support material. In this video based on images and some live recordings of dissolving PVA in water and a clean 3d object at the end. Just to have said it: This 3d object could have been printed without support material at a equal quality. This is just a test to print with PVA as support and how well PVA will dissolve. The print time was about 3.5h, the PVA filament dissolved in about 2.75h. The 3d print ...

Replicator 2 and Replicator 2x

It has always bothered me, that I can not print with support structures without having to heavily polish the object afterwards and even that it was not always what I expected. To get rid of that problem, I participated in an auction on ebay a few days before and got myself a Replicator 2x. The device arrived yesterday and it is in a very good condistion. Additional to that I ordered some PVA and I am now printing with ABS and PVA. PVA (Polyvinylalcohol) ...