This weekend (July 28-29), Vancouver Island is hosting it’s first Mini MakerFaire at the Panorama Rec Centre in North Saanich. A few of us from 3D604 will be taking our 3d printers on the ferry to spend the weekend at the Faire:
Can’t wait for the 3d printer village road show!
Yesterday, our 3d printing club, 3D604, finished our fourth day of 3d printer demos at Science World over two weekends during Spring Break. We had 16 printers the first weekend and 13 the second one – a pretty impressive turnout! It was a lot of fun showing the 3d printing technology to thousands of people…
This past weekend was Vancouver’s first Mini Maker Faire and even the weather cooperated. Part carnival, part technology showcase, and part craft show, it’s definitely not your grandma’s kind of faire – you actually have to sign a waiver to gain entry due to some of the exhibits on display and their inherent dangers. Like…
The other day, Thingiverse member Bmoshe posted this awesome 3D model of Yoda. Easily the highest resolution model I’ve printed so far on my MakerBot coming in at a whopping 147mb (versus 1-5mb for a complex model on average). It took forever to render the toolpath in Replicator G but was worth it! It took…
A brief update on the build status of my prototype version of Brad’s (aka Sublime) forthcoming Tantillus 3d printer and my Prusa Mendel Reprap printer. Last weekend, Brad & I mounted most of the printed parts, motors and hardware for the extruder and build platform. Part of that exercise was for Brad to see how…
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It was SO cool to see the 3D printer!