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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Tuning For Speed And Good Vibrations

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I've found the maximum speed I can run at without causing excess vibration: 8mm/min. I noticed the probe accidentally touched the slide ...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Getting Rougher With Dutch Guilding

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Sometimes your experiments do not prove your hypothesis. This is one of those. You have to remind yourself that it didn't "fail...

First Attempt At Dutch Guilding

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Dutch Guilding is used as a cheaper and more amateur-proof alternative to gold leaf. It's a form of very thin brass sheet, therefore con...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Fine Tuning The V0.05 Axis Driver

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I put the RepRapMicron through a few more paces and found the Axis Driver I had fitted wasn't quite concentric and didn't have enoug...

Blast From The Past - Meccano RepRap 2005

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While looking for reference images I came across the technical paper that started it all for me: The technical report on the original Meccan...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Finally, layers! (Like an onion, or a parfait)

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It's been a while coming, but at last I have managed to do multiple layers. The big question is: How many? Well, about 10 before things ...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Latest V0.05 Axis Driver Fitted

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Just a quick update. Fitted the Axis Driver that I just made for Siddharth's photos. Moved straight and homed first time! Note that I ha...
Monday, November 24, 2025

V0.05 Parallelogram Axis Driver Final Assembly Photos

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Carrying on from a couple of posts back, here are the remaining stages of assembly for the RepRapMicron V0.05 Axis Driver. The things not ob...

Mosquito-based Extruder Nozzle

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Not my own work, but these enterprising people have adapted the mouthparts of a dead mosquito into a fine extruder nozzle, getting down to 2...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

RepRapMicron V0.05 Axis Driver Photo Dump

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Siddharth pointed out that the assembly of the Parallelogram Axis Driver isn't shown anywhere. Pending proper documentation I've tak...
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