3-D printing

[Nifty-Chicken]

Ran across this today. A web tool for quickly modeling custom brackets to mount stuff. Thanks reddit!

https://bracket.engineer/

That is really cool!

 

[azurbanclucker]

That is really cool!

I keep putting off a "properly cable manage under my desk" project because I've been being lazy about sketching up the brackets for my power bricks. With a ruler and calipers to get the measurements, this solves that problem in a couple of minutes.

 

[notabitail]

I keep putting off a "properly cable manage under my desk" project because I've been being lazy about sketching up the brackets for my power bricks. With a ruler and calipers to get the measurements, this solves that problem in a couple of minutes.

I cable manage and it always ends up being chaotic and messy.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I cable manage and it always ends up being chaotic and messy.

sounds like you need some brackets!

 

[notabitail]

sounds like you need some brackets!

That and motivation. "It works" is usually my excuse.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I have a PVC feeder in my coop. It uses a custom 3d printed connector to join two 45's together, and it had a 3D printed face-cover to limit their ability to pull feed out:

Well, a new addition to the flock became really aggressive with the food, and billed-out a bucket-full all over the floor of the coop.

So, I swapped out the cover above for a quick custom cover to temporarily stop her from pulling out more food.

I LOVE that I can quickly design this stuff and have it printed faster than it would be to drive to the home store to get similar stuff... and better, design stuff that is specific to my needs that doesn't exist!!

 

[jnicholes]

Had an interesting experience with my Neptune 4 Max today. The city I live in recently got fiber optic installed, and they connected it to our house.

Everything was working fine in the house, extremely fast, except for the 3-D printer. I spent an hour diagnosing and trying to figure out what went wrong. I could not figure out why the 3-D printer was no longer connecting to the computer. Then, I finally figured figured out what happened. Somehow, the 3-D printers IP address changed, probably because we switched to fiber optic.

Anyway, I’m just doing some minor things with the printer, then I’m gonna do a test print to see if it works.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Had an interesting experience with my Neptune 4 Max today. The city I live in recently got fiber optic installed, and they connected it to our house.

Everything was working fine in the house, extremely fast, except for the 3-D printer. I spent an hour diagnosing and trying to figure out what went wrong. I could not figure out why the 3-D printer was no longer connecting to the computer. Then, I finally figured figured out what happened. Somehow, the 3-D printers IP address changed, probably because we switched to fiber optic.

Anyway, I’m just doing some minor things with the printer, then I’m gonna do a test print to see if it works.

do you know how to set the IP to be static for it? That way it won't change. I'm a weirdo, but I run a separate internal DHCP server with manual reservations for multiple devices (printers, fileserver, wifi mesh pods, my battlestation, the smart TV's and appliances). That way I can monitor them and they don't move around in the lease pool when their leases expire.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Ever find yourself thinking "I need a burger patty press" but then never remember to pick one up?

Well, With a little 3d printing magic and some foodsafe PETG, that can be a problem of the past! This one's a 5" diameter

 

[jnicholes]

3d printed a tanto for Aikido practice. First time using PETG filament. Had to do 100% infill to make it sturdy enough to withstand a blow from a bokken (wooden practice sword.)

Now I am printing an Aikido jo in 4 segments using ABS filament. Same infill setting.

I hope it can withstand blows from the tanto and bokken. We will know after four 7+ hour prints.