User:SuperBlobMonster

'''My place to document my life problems. Namely engineering problems'''

 Help forester, I'm getting too many ideas now that I'm finally doccumenting things....

Projects
Starter project #0: /Camera Disassembly/  /finished/

Project #1: /Room Access/  /finished/

Project #2: /Room Access Part 2/  /finished/

Other
Side project #2 /Power sander/ 

Replicator Endeavors
For starters, I made myself a thingverse account, and starting filtering through the objects on there.

I also looked up what driver software I would need to print objects, and installed MakerWare

I then downloaded a test .stl file and opened it with Makerware, compiled it into G-code and saved to an SD card, put it in the printer, selected the file, and hit print.

Problems: Even with PLA plastic, which is known to not curl on the build platform as opposed to ABS, if you have very thin pieces on the base, it will still have a tendency to curl. A few ideas to prevent this would be to print with a raft (hard to remove) or just print it bigger (but that takes forever)

Found that puzzle oil works very well for lubricating parts printed together. Used Maru oil (wax base?) on the gear bearing I printed, works spectacularly.

Printed so far:

1: 1x2x3 puzzle http://www.thingiverse.com/make:47054

2: Twisting Kochflake Vases http://www.thingiverse.com/make:47053

3: Gear Bearing http://www.thingiverse.com/make:45653

4: Overhang Test Print http://www.thingiverse.com/make:45491

Want to also look into vapor smoothing.

I have many things in queue I have yet to print (as seen on my tingverse collection of: Things to print) but I also want to look into making my own objects and printing a few gadgets of my own

Current ideas:

-phone dock that will attach to my car

-clips to hold my art stuff in the trunk of my car

-clip on water bottle holder for a cross bike

-tea strainer

-traxxas Emaxx rear shock tower

-klein bottle

-all terrain bristle bot?

-Webbing belt end crimp

-CVT transmission

I downloaded 123Design from AutoDesk which seems like a vercitile tool for making 3D objects and saving them as a printable .stl file. Still have to learn how to use the tool though!

Supercharged Laptop Cooler?
Can I make a laptop cooling device better than a stand with fans on it?

maybe hook into an air compressor?

Stack cpu fans in series/parallel?

Toughest bit would probably be to make the base that can attach to the laptop.

3d printing for the fan ducts? maybe even for the base structure itself, though it would have to be in pieces..

Foam storm door seal for the gaskets?

3D Metal printer?
I'm sure starting this project would be in my own garage, and forester would not appreciate starting another thing to wind up stagnating in the workshop, but I'll toss around some ideas on here.

Materials

The best idea come up with so far is using tin-indium solder, seeing as how oxidization is not much of an issue, and it has a low melting point. My father also already tested that it takes ~4.6amps DC to melt.

Other matierials: Copper, Iron, Steel, Precious metal putties.

Many have trouble with oxidization, are too expensive, or are very high temperature.

We could take care of the oxidization by printing in a vacuum, but then the problem of cooling becomes a large issue for stepper motors, and the melted metal.

print heads

The best idea discussed so far is an induction head, using a solenoid to induce a current into the tip of the wire, causing it to heat up and drip at a controlled rate. This does pose a few problems, but not as many as some of the other ideas.

Other ideas: MIG welder, focused LASER, Taylor cone