My new 3D Printer
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| Decided to get a 3D printer. I went with a Davinci 1.0a and flashed it with Repetier firmware. Im enjoying it so far as a hobby tool. I have made a Mini Nes using Raspberry PI and emulation station, and I made the entire overworld for the original zelda on nes.. My printer is one color filament so I had to hand paint my overworld. Anyone else here using a 3D printer for fun? For the Zelda overworld I first went into minecraft and remade the map from scratch.. It is about 95% accurate in terms of layout but I added height to it and widened some stair cases for printing purposes. LINK TO MY OVERWORLD MAP PICTURES. http://i.imgur.com/iGpVXCA.jpg? http://i.imgur.com/GSIYRGV.jpg? http://i.imgur.com/jzYn2dd.jpg? ZELDA CLASSIC SCENES http://i.imgur.com/brw4f31.jpg? MINI NES. FULLY WORKING http://i.imgur.com/i9EJ8NC.jpg? http://i.imgur.com/3GTQgrq.jpg? |
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| Cool beans! |
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| Your finger-ring looks line mine - but as I preferred the SNES, this wont be my case then. bye Ron |
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| Mini NES looks sweet. Nice stuff! We have a 3D printer at work and I sometimes need to design jigs to aid in assembly of products. I noticed some things to be aware of when creating 3D printed jigs: 1. Material - PLA for lightweight and accuracy or ABS for stronger items but subject to warping. Depends on the fill % 2. Accuracy - Our printer is very accurate in the vertical plane (down to 0.1mm) but for X and Y a greater acceptable level of tolerance is needed. 3. Time - Trying to rush-print causes ugly streaky-looking edges. Its better to lower the print time to get a nice quality finish. |
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| Great stuff! |
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| Derron, Ya I have seen a few snes cases as well. Jim, I havent used ABS yet. For my specific printer the best addition I added that greatly affected print quality was an additional 12v fan with printed blower assembly added to the hot end. |
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| @rifRaf, thats is most truly awesome, I've been toying with the idea of selling my motorbike - I think I've found a reason to now! I'm really impressed with your print of Zelda overworld - can I ask how many separate print 'jobs' were required to print the whole world? Thanks, and much respect for having the best peripheral I've seen in a long time ;) |
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| BP, the world map is 3 prints. each minecraft block was exported as 1.75mm cube using mineways exporter, as you may know the NES Zelda map is 256x88 cells in size. My map is a few cells larger to accommodate a border so each section I printed was about 85x85 cells, or 149mm x 149mm in real size. Each print took between 7 and 9 hours, this is typical of a dense model of that size. 3D printing is not fast but large prints can go overnight and the wait is not so bad. The funnest part was hand painting. Since this print I have edited my minecraft map a few times in ways that would make the print look better and may make a version 2.0 at some point. |
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| AWESOME MAN! I LOVE the map! <3 ~GF |
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| @Rif Raf, I've wondered about the complexities of exporting from a B3D rendered environment to real world objects, interesting stuff. I appreciate you've went minecraft -> 3D prints, exciting stuff ! |
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| Absolutely awesome. I'm wondering myself in maybe 10 or 20 years when 3D printers became cheap enough. That entire construction industries might practically go out of business. I mean, if you can make your 3D cases for things, toys and sculptures and the like why bother to buy toys when you can make your own? :) |
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| BP, Im pretty certain there are some OBJ exporters in the code archives.. Many 3D printer slicers can import STL, and OBJ. If you already have a B3D exporter working there are other programs like ultimate unwrap3d that can load b3d and export obj Enay, I would not be surprised if in the next 10 years they are as common as inkjet printers are today. The color 3D printers that use either powder or standard printing paper to print tiny layers in color and glue them together are pretty cool but 25k 'ish USD. |
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| @RifRaf, thanks for the additional feedback - I've had a copy of ultimate unwrap 3D in the past (my XP machine seems to have bit the dust - ah well, that'll be storing it in the garage I suppose.) 25K is a little outa my remit - but all my motorbike's been doing of late is gathering rust at the bottom of the garden. Time to kiss her goodbye me thinks, 410 quid will get me one of your eloquent 3d printers ;) |
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| Must resist purchasing one too... :D Seriously, they look great, may'be one day. |
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| @RifRef and Blitzplotter I have an .stl exporter in the code archives. It will take any Blitz3D entity and export it to .stl format most commonly used with 3d printer slicing programs. I was trying to make a cad program similar to OpenSCad, but never got around to starting it (other than making the exporter). |
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| @TomToad, thanks for sharing ;) |
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| So.. What's the actual cost in materials to print these kind of things? |
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| The way I see it is the time is money... Whilst I'd love to have the time to realise some of the 3d entities I've rendered in the 'real world' using clay/plasticine etc, being able to accurately 'print' out 3D things that have 'come' from real world data (in my case GPS data) really excites me. More so than riding my motorbike, and tbh the risk outweighs the fun factor... maybe boring but certainly not risk adverse. So, goodbye motorbike - hello 3D printer ;) |
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| A 1 kg spool is about 18 USD. I could print the zelda map MANY times with that. It really goes a long way for hobby and prototype use. The prints I showed above cost between 4 and 5 USD to make all together. It suppose it could be costly to try to use a desktop 3D printer for any type of mass production. |
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| A 1 kg spool is about 18 USD. I could print the zelda map MANY times with that. It really goes a long way for hobby and prototype use. The prints I showed above cost between 4 and 5 USD to make all together. It suppose it could be costly to try to use a desktop 3D printer for any type of mass production. Awesome ;) |
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| (And of course, you can save materials by designing objects to be (paertially) hollow rather than solid) |
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| bored so I decided to make a few scenes from the original as well. here is one. http://i.imgur.com/brw4f31.jpg? |
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| Working on a higher res version of my minecraft map. with the old map, one zelda tile = one minecraft brick http://i.imgur.com/QeS9B7o.jpg? New one is a work in progress. twice the size 1 zelda tile = 4 minecraft bricks. This does allow for a lot more creativity in intepreting the map into a 3d environment. The white parts at ground level are snow layers. Since the map is for 3D printing the loss of color for using snow layers is outweighed by the 8 bit height control you get using them. http://i.imgur.com/wZaeajo.jpg? |
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| Oh my, big project - good luck with it, looking forward to the results. I'd still love a 3D printer, maybe in 2020 ;) |
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like your stuff !! its mine :) |
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| @Panno, what printer do you use ? There are very cheap printers on chinese sites, I wonder what quality we can expect from them... |
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| @Pingus i use this https://www.germanreprap.com/produkte/3d-drucker/protos/ |
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| Looked up Panno's printer- $9000 US.... |
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| PRotos 3d is a "build your own 3d printer"-kit. Costs are about 700-800 Euro. http://de.camelcamelcamel.com/GERMAN-REPRAP-PROTOS-3D-DRUCKER-KOMPLETTBAUSATZ/product/B00ICKG77K bye ron |
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| I've seen this Anet printer for about $180.00 (US) :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_TYzy5YQTI |
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| @Richard, thats VERY impressive for the price, very well presented too ;) I wonder if Santa can fit one in his sleigh for the christmas break - probably not if the post office is on strike ;) |
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| I saw a 99 dollar 0.1 mm layer printer recently, if I can find it again ill post link. Heres a steam award I made for my son, with his callsign on it. Ill probably make another one though as im not happy with my paint job.. I used this picture to make it from. https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Me783cb214197502eba99caa2a0f65e5co0&pid=15.1? heres mine http://i.imgur.com/UYQBuEw.jpg? |
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| And I have read "BroHenClaw" :-) I created a "toon bomb on a podest"-model some days ago - for someone owning a printer ;-)  https://forum.bombzone.de/index.php/Thread/69-stl-Files-f%C3%BCr-3D-Drucker/?pageNo=1 It really made me think twice to buy such a "construct you own 3d printer kit". But then I would only use it a bunch of times until it sits their waiting to get buried below dust. And it occupies so much space ...space a poor mans computer room does not have ;-) bye Ron |
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| @Derron, yeah I see your point, love the toon bomb. At $180, I see that 3D printer kind of a 'adult' Lego kit - which when finished prints 3D stuff. Around 5 hours to build sounds like a small challenge, I'm not sure mine would just gather dust. I keep thinking of selling my motorbike to fund one - just my insurance for the year would fund a $180 3D printer ;) |
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| These 180 dollar printers need a lot of tuning and attention until they work to your satisfaction. Replacing something here adding a cooler fan there (so the things are cooler...hardening faster and so on). Nonetheless prices of the fixed printer are still lower than of a ready to use "pro"-package. At least this is what all these blogs/reviews write. Bye Ron |
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