Monday, April 18, 2016

Being a contractor or a full-time employee?

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Working as a contractor versus regular employment? I regularly see the fear about working as a contractor. Lately I was part of a discus...
Friday, April 15, 2016

3D printing sponsorship: getting hired and getting fired ... as with any other job? :(

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A blow to Octoprint and to the 3D printing community? May be not. This short post is triggered by the recent lay off of Gina Häußge by BQ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Tribed: a fully automatic bed leveling and tool height adjustment, with FSR and 3 Z screws

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This post is the continuation of my  preliminary analysis  regarding bed tramming and automatic tool height adjustment. So far I never made...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Sensors and issues for automatic bed leveling and height adjustment

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My printer eventually has a fully automatic and hardware bed leveling (aka tramming), and bed height (aka Z-offset). Yes, it now handles an...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Preliminary expectations and design options for a prosumer, fully opensource 3D printer. Your opinion matters!

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Call for feedback: designing an opensource, prosumer-grade 3D printer ( update 2017 : this project is no more alive, sorry!) We are cu...
Friday, October 2, 2015

"It is better for your safety that we are opaque" (Volkswagate)

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"It is better for your safety that we are opaque" I just read an article  on the BBC related to Volkswagen and t...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

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Messy code, branches with a lack of guidelines and comments are killing Marlin! Marlin no more exists as a single, readable, common branc...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Headlines again... 3D printing guns, a passion?

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Headlines again: 3D printing yet another part of a gun. So what? Please  Cody , yes, you the guy with big  stainless-steel thermoplastic...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

3D printer survival kit: a comprehensive set of 3D printer tools and tips.

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Survival kit: tools for the 3D printers This post started as early as September 2013, and it eventually ends here, may 2015! At least, ...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

CNC fail? 3D printed design blows my ears instead of the dust

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I bought a well-built Chinese CNC machine last year, namely a 4 axis CNC3040Z-DQ router/engraver, for about €1000 (as far as I remember). ...