Finally I got my Kickstarter backed QB-UP TwoUp and after much fiddeling, cursing, crying, face-palming, dremeling, grinding, drilling, glueing and zip-tieing it finally runs. With the pink ABS sample filament I printed the 20mm-box.stl calibration cube. Nothing what you could call extraordinar or awesome but a mandatory step. OKGO. Bed – heated up…. Extruder heated…
Recycling plastics with a garden shredder
I recently picked up a garden shredder on ebay for 15€ in the hopes I can misuse it for shredding plastics. This should then be fed to my Filament Factory to create 3D printer filament. The Einhell EGC 2400 has a 2400 Watt motor. Plenty of power to shred branches and plastics. I went with…
Canon i650
Vor einiger Zeit habe ich mal vermehrt nach alten Druckern auf Ebay Kleinanzeigen gesucht. Billig sollten sie sein und alt. Alt deswegen, weil in älteren Druckern meist noch gute Schrittmotoren verbaut sind. In den neueren werden fast nur noch DC-Motoren mit Encoderschaltung verbaut. Die haben den Vorteil (für den Hersteller), dass sie viel billiger sind…
GK802 Android TV-Stick
First I was really excited as the packet from China arrived. Content : The GK802 Android stick. Powered by a quad-core Freescale 1.2 GHz CPU, 1 GB SDRAM DDR3 and storage upgradable to 32 GB. Nice. I don’t know if it’s the official predecessor of the MK808 but the higher CPU clock made me buy…