Posts tagged: 3d-printing

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💭 Gridfinity Generator gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com
Gridfinity Generator gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com [1] Gridfinity generator uses open scad, so you can make rugged boxes, bins and base plates with form input. not fully custom fit to things, but you can custom size square bins, hole cut out sides and all. From what I can tell, no bento box either. so as long as what you are looking for is square this generator has you pretty well covered. I’m definitely using this for simple bins and rugged boxes. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/pr/gridfinity-extended/0/0 [2]: /thoughts/
💭 ticklemykeys on X: "Porta john got some pink caps https://t.co... x.com
External Link X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] Loving this 6 pink with blueforward multicolor combo the porta john has going right now. Also my son printed me a cute black pumpkin. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/XTicklemykeys/status/1850361138791195069 [2]: /thoughts/
Modular Input Device on Wood
Comparing the thickness of the low profile portajohn2 to the portajohn1
💭 NOT - LTT Screwdriver - Fancy by Erer2001 | Download free STL ... www.printables.com
External Link printables.com [1] Someone has created a knock off of the ltt screwdriver and made it printable, and it works really well. I have one printed with 6 different bitholders. I popped some labels on them in bambu studio as I printed to mark them for metric/inch and so on. [2] I’ve had mine for about a year now, and I use it quite often. I used to be a dedicated screwdriver kind of guy, but as life has changed I’m not working out of a shop with tools at reach as much, I’m grabbing a couple of items and heading to a job in the house or a neighbors house. It’s not 30s to grab just the right dedicated screwdriver anymore. Also having some setup with hex and torx is a game changer. It’s also super handy that you can just pop the bits right into a drill or impact. [3] Highly recommended print. Sorry for not buying the real deal Linux, I got kids to feed here. I owe you a t-shirt order or something. [4] Note This post is a thought [5]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.printables.com/model/580045/files [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/a10f10c7-973a-4dde-bd92-ef37b596fb85.png [3]:...

New-caps-for-porta-john

Today I dropped some new caps in the porta-john. I need to do a bunch of posts on zmk and my journey building the porta-john, I’ve been rocking it for at least two weeks now pretty solid and I am absolutely loving it. More on that later. KLP-Lame-Keycaps # [1] The model of the caps are KLP-Lame [2] by braindefender [3] , they are super rounded and smooth. They look really good on camera and feel good to the finders. [4] I printed these at home on my ender3 s1 pro with a black and purple silk filliment. I printed all 42 at once using a Printing 42 keys at once [5] technique. They do have just a bit of a rough texture that you can feel on your figertips. I printed these on super quality .12mm layer height, while my last set was printed on draft quality .32mm layer height. They look crazy different in print quality with the lines of the new caps barely showing, the feel isn’t nearly as drastic. The Result # [6] Check out the final shots as I set up the porta-john with these swee...

Printing 42 keys at once

I’m working on creating some gcode to create a whole set of key caps in one print, it is getting tedious to print them one at a time, and my past experience with my printer proves that printing a bunch of separate pieces increases the chances of failure. I don’t want to end up with 42 keys that are half done and a ball of filament. figuring out the coordinates # [1] To figure out the coordinates I printed one key cap, and manually jogged the printer in position to knock off the cap, then sweep it out of the way. [2] print head in position to knock [3] Position before the knock [4] Position after the sweep gcode # [5] I opened the gcode split it into start.gcode, end.gcode, and part.gcode. start.gcode # [6] ;FLAVOR:Marlin ;TIME:1488 ;Filament used: 0.265511m ;Layer height: 0.12 ;MINX:105.708 ;MINY:101.231 ;MINZ:0.12 ;MAXX:113.512 ;MAXY:118.776 ;MAXZ:17.04 ;TARGET_MACHINE.NAME:Creality Ender-3 S1 Pro ;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine 5.8.0 M82 ;absolute extrusion mode ; End...
The Portajohn Monoblock Keyboard Design
Check out the Portajohn! This custom 42-key monoblock was my first full keyboard build, designed to plop on a laptop, while still exposing the trackpad and able to flip over and toss in a backpack.
Laying some wire in PortaJohn 1
Close-up view of a barebones custom mechanical keyboard plate and PCB.
Laying down the first test print of a portajohn on a laptop
A setup featuring an open laptop running Ubuntu next to a detached, custom mechanical keyboard.
💭 Waylon Walker - handwired macropads on X: "First bit of hand w... x.com
External Link X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1] Not gonna lie, kinda pumped about this one. I manually did one, jotted down the coordinates, opened the gcode in vim, added markers between setup/teardown and print. then added the wipe, the copy pasted the print+wipe section a bunch of times. My printer tends to run a bit better on single prints than printing a dozen at once as it has less issues with retract start and stop. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://x.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1807594004453667134 [2]: /thoughts/
💭 STLGears.com | The Free STL Gear Designer www.stlgears.com
STLGears.com The Free STL Gear Designer For 3D Printing stlgears.com [1] This is a pretty nice gear generator. I printed a few gears today and it worked great so far. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.stlgears.com/generators/3dprint [2]: /thoughts/
New Black Corne with purple glow
These kaihl browns, loving them. This is going to be a trip to get used to, I thought typing on a column stagger layout would be hard to get used to, nope, its the symbols, that 4th layer is hard to get rid of.