3D printing

As part of an on-going collaboration with glassblower Kenny Galusha, I’ve begun working on a series of 3D-printed platforms that combine some of his glass art with my Lumiboard open-source LED platform. We are planning to launch a Kickstarter soon to enable the both of us to purchase basic equipment

For the holiday season I worked on two gifts that combine some neat lighting effects with some hand-made glass pieces. The first piece was created in collaboration with glassblower Kenny Galusha on commission for a friend as a Christmas gift, while the second piece uses similar electronics and a hand-made

Building upon lessons learned while building the first version of the Eyewriter 2.1 hardware platform (rev A), I set out to redesign the system to require fewer pieces of hardware and less 3D-printed plastic. The result is a much more compact, manipulable and adaptable system that can be attached to monitors, laptops and desks.

When I made the decision to build my own Prusa Mendel i2 3D printer I did so with a very specific goal in mind; to be able to make 3D prints using various pastes such as chocolate, frosting and peanut butter. In fact, I don’t even have a working plastic

The printer itself is assembled and functioning and has now begun it’s long (possibly never-ending) journey of calibration and improvement to be truly usable. Eventually I’d like to print using a syringe-based extruder with viscous materials like molten chocolate, frosting, peanut butter and more, but first I need to make

Once the frame had been assembled and tightened, and the build platform was assembled, the next logical step for me in constructing my Prusa Mendel 3D printer seemed to be to install the electronics board and wire up all the stepper motors. This involves attached the electronics board to the

After getting the frame assembled and tightened for my Prusa Mendel i2 3D printer, I tried to assemble the build platform my the printer. This turned out to be more frustrating than I was expecting, and I actually built the bed in a way that was nearly impossible to level

This past Friday the Omaha Children’s Museum officially opened up their brand new Makerspace for kids, and invited me to come out and share some of my work. I showed up with a car full of projects from my last year or so of making, including UNK’s Makerbot Replicator, my

After getting a little bit burned out last week from working on my aquaponics system, I spent the weekend making quite a bit of progress on my Prusa Mendel (i2) 3D printer. I’ve known what the next steps in building the machine where for a while, but just hadn’t gotten

Progress since the last built update was a little slow, because I had to wait to get some money (hooray student loans!). Well, late last week that problem was solved so I went ahead and ordered all the electronics for the printer! This is by far the most expensive part