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Another shot of the finished and working 3D printers we all built this morning. We all had a lot of fun.

Our Makerfaire 3D printer giveaway was completed today. We built 4 printers, and they went home with their new owners.

Need your model sliced so you can create those interlocking wood pieces on the laser cutter?
Use Fusion Slicer https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=8699194120463301363
Free.
Load an STL file, and play with options to produce the interlocking wooden model you require.
Lots of videos showing examples on line.

Finally got the Prussa back up and running, the Rostock needs a good deal more work, though.

The main table at the maker faire

Setting up for maker faire

For my whistles printed to give away at Chattanooga mini maker faire tomorrow.
Off to set up now.

Dug into the issues with the printers tonight. Turns out, they both have the same problem going on. Everything's torn down pretty well right now, but parts are on order and I'll be throwing it all together as soon as they get here. The new bits should be able to provide a minor upgrade for both printers as well. I'm really looking forward to getting everything back up and running!

Got the mill powered up now. Still needs a fair amount of work and some tooling, but it's good to see things spinning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpOWLbqFDes

Finally got around to setting up a proper tray for the keyboard and mouse at the Stereo PC. You can finally type at a comfortable level and not have to worry about knocking anything down!

Looks like Prusa will be making it's own filament. Super high quality, for a good price.
It's available in Amazon soon.

https://www.prusaprinters.org/launching-prusament-the-best-filament-tha…

Visiting www.leicesterhackspace.co.uk while visiting the UK

Watching DragonCon lose it's collective mind 😁

President Black Knight hanging with the king at Dragoncon

Jeff finds his favourite Deadpool at Dragoncon 😁

Chip guard

More lan fun

More lan party photos

LAN party underway, feeding each other hot lead and death. 😁

I found some new material at home depot that is 2.7 mm $11 for a 4 by 8 sheet in cuts at a 100% speed 80% power. Also it looks pretty on both sides

Didn't realize that the HackSpace magazine was free to download as a PDF.
Lots of interesting Raspberry Pi projects, plus many other articles to try out as a new project.

Download issues here
https://hackspace.raspberrypi.org/issues

Special thanks to Jeff, Michael Rowland, Curtis, Jonathan, Tim Miller and Dennis. They were able to put quite a dent in the mess including sweeping and mopping floors, putting away items and general cleanup. Curtis and Dennis also organized the woodshop better as well. We should try to do this once a quarter.

Michael, Tim and Jeff were also able to clean the laser grid which was starting to get really nasty smelling of smoke residue.

Great works guys. We should buy then a beer!

We are having a lan party again this Saturday.
8pm until late. 25th August at the space.
We'll do a pizza run at midnight..
Come play quake, unreal tournament and more.
Trash talk your enemies while they are in the same room!

Printed one of these https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3049220 on my Prusa Mk2S, timelapse of it in action here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=108SA0QnhHU&feature=youtu.be
Steering wheel for an XBox controller. Works quite well.

Microscope Demo tonight! Thanks, Dave!

Way to go Tim! This thing was full of dirt!

More thorminator

Playing with the thorminator