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[Link] Pump Up The Resin

Read: 13/2/2022 hackaday.com

Sometimes the best ideas are simple and seem obvious after you’ve heard them. [Danny] showed us a great idea that fits that description. He uses a peristaltic pump to move resin in and out of his print bed. (Video, embedded below.

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[Link] Solar Cells, Half Off

Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com

A company named Leap Photovoltaic claims they have a technology to create solar panels without silicon wafers which would cut production costs in half.

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[Link] Modded GBA SP Does Its Best Switch Impression

Read: 2/11/2021 hackaday.com

The whole idea behind the Nintendo Switch is that the system isn’t just a handheld, but can be converted into a more traditional home game console when placed into its dock.

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[Link] Turning Old Masks Into 3D Printer Filament

Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com

Disposable masks have been a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for all the good they’ve done, their disposal represents a monumental ecological challenge that has largely been ignored in favor of more immediate concerns.

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[Link] 3D Print A Custom T-Shirt Design, Step-by-Step

Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com

Want to make a t-shirt with a custom design printed on it? It’s possible to use a 3D printer, and Prusa Research have a well-documented blog post and video detailing two different ways to use 3D printing to create colorful t-shirt designs.

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[Link] New Part Day: DLP300s The Next Big Thing For Low Cost Resin Printing?

Read: 1/9/2021 hackaday.com

The majority of non-SLA resin 3D printers, certainly at the hacker end of the market, are most certainly LCD based. The SLA kind, where a ultraviolet laser is scanner via galvanometers over the build surface, we shall consider no further in this article.

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[Link] Spaghetti Detective Users Boiled By Security Gaffe

Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com

For readers that might not spend their free time watching spools of PLA slowly unwind, The Spaghetti Detective (TSD) is an open source project that aims to use computer vision and machine learning to identify when a 3D print has failed and resulted in a pile of plastic “spaghetti” on the build p

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[Link] RAMPS Rebuild Keeps Robox 3D Printer Out Of Junk Bin

Read: 8/8/2021 hackaday.com

A 3D printer is a wonderful invention, but it needs maintenance like every machine that runs for long hours. [Rob Ward] had a well-used Robox 3D printer that was in need of some repairs, but getting the necessary replacement parts shipped to Australia was cost-prohibitive.

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