• My Big Fat Bowl

    My Big Fat Bowl

    Y’all gotta know I like to design and print bowls. All sizes and shapes. Not always round. This time I saw this bowl on a “Modern Marvels” cable TV program about coin operated devices. This bowl was full to the top with pocket change. The bowl shape intrigued me and I decided immediately I had…

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  • All in One

    All in One

    One creative mindset I keep working to maintain with 3D printing is that objects I design do not have to be printed in one piece. It is fine when that happens to work. I keep reminding myself that it is not a requirement. All my other crafts shout, “Some Assembly Required!” It’s no different with…

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  • Bowden Worm Hole

    Bowden Worm Hole

    Just finished a lot of Print testing with my Anycubic Vyper Bowden tube FDM printer. As I suspected much of the pros and cons about bowden tube systems and retraction issues is pure misinformation or speculation. Some of the “gospel” may have been true years ago when systems were built up from available tube ID…

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  • Tripple Play

    Tripple Play

    Running three identical prints on three different printers all at the same time. That’s gotta be what’s called, “Doin’ 3D printing!”  Ha! Little Mama Cetus (original size Cetus I), Cetus2 (2 color much larger), and Anycubic Vyper (conventional FDM). The print file is an original KautzCraft I call “ripple”. It is a 100mm round bowl…

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  • Quantum Speed

    Quantum Speed

    Some where along the timeline of growth, all 3D printing became a speed race where fast print time became more a goal than print quality. “Faster is better!” became the battle cry. Additive manufacturing is an inherently slow process. the thinner the layers and narrower the lines (no lines in MSLA) the more time is…

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  • ASA is not Film Speed

    ASA is not Film Speed

    My current FDM plastic of choice is called ASA. Short for Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate. A bit of a mouthful so using ASA is good! This is not an EXCLUSIVE choice. I switch often between ASA, ABS, PETG, PLA, PLA+, TPU, TPU+, wood filled PLA, and certainly several others. Almost the same number of UV resin…

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  • Candy Dish

    Candy Dish

    This may look like an empty candy dish. But that is because it is a candy dish. The reality is that it is full of something. Candy is expected, but at the Quantum Level things are not always how they appear. This dish was printed at the standard human level of perception and expectation. That’s…

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  • Monster Math

    Monster Math

    I was working in the quantum-lab, late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my 3D models from their slabs, began to rise And suddenly to my surprise I did some math, I did some monster math The monster math, it was a graveyard smash I did the math, it caught on…

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  • Charlie Brown

    Charlie Brown

    For those who did not grow up with Charles M. Schulz cartoon strip “Peanuts”, the title is in reference to the only style shirt good ol’ Charlie Brown ever wore. Charlie wasn’t too close to Quantum Physics in those days but I think his little sister Sally was pretty knowledgable about (or at least questioned)…

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