Category: 3D Printing
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Wall Mount Glasses Holder
I enjoy using my 3D printer to create things that are small quality of life improvements. One of my ambitions is to no longer have a full-on junk drawer and where everything has a place and a place for everything. One such issue that has been a constant irritant has been that of where the…
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Gridfinity Screwdriver Rack
One of the coolest discoveries on the Internet that was introduced by the fine folks in the Maker’s Corner Telegram group is Gridfinity. There are a ton of videos buy the creator, Zack Freedman, of the various cool things he has done with it. For more information on that breaks down the philosophy read this…
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Ender3 Stuck at Heating Extruder
I have been having this frustrating occurrence with my Ender3 where the machine will get stuck at Extruder Heating, before it begins the printing process and just sit there. I looked up solutions for the problem and I read more than once that it was a failed MOSFET that would have to be replaced or…
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Running Electrical Conduit Using FreeCAD and 3D Printing
The great thing about having a 3D printer and open source CAD software is the ability to make accomplishing projects easier. In short, I had some electrical conduit to run and I wanted to mount it along a steel structural I-beam in CubicleLabs. I found some clamps that would work but they were too expensive…
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Raspberry Pi OctoPrint Powered by Ender3 3D Printer
After almost a year of having my Ender3, it has received a lot of new parts, fixes and upgrades. The great thing about the Ender3 is that you can do so much with it and truly personalize it for your use case. One area that needed to be addressed was the power supply situation that…
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Ender3 Ikea Lack Table Printer Enclosure
The Ender3 is seemingly a fantastic, inexpensive, entry level machine to get you started in the wondrous world of 3D printing. I would hardly call it the most quality, feature-rich machines out there but the incredible affordability is what makes is a great starting place. This wasn’t the first 3D printer I became familiar with…
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Building a New Retro Styled Computer
Computers are a lot more fun when they are personal and have a bit of personaltity to them. You can’t get much more personalized than 3D printing your very own retro styled computer. This was all inspired by watching an episode on the YouTube channel, Retro Recipes, where LadyFractic built herself a retro computer, my…
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C1541x | The Commodore 1541 Impostor
My most favorite computer build to date has been my Commodore 64 Impostor. It has truly been the best computer I have ever owned. Not because it is he fastest and most capable but because it hit all the right nostalgia buttons while at the same time meeting my computing requirements. The only real problem…
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OctoPrint Pause and Resume Settings for the Ender3
This isn’t anything particularly earth shattering here, the point here is to make a kind of “CubicleNate bookmark” for me and to be openly criticized by those that know more than me on this subject. The problem I had was pausing and resuming properly using OctoPrint on my Ender3 Printer. I messed up more than…
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Stacked Dual Screen on a Laptop
Once I tasted the sweet goodness of a multiple screen workstation, having a single screen seems almost unusable. Sure, that is a bit of a hyperbole but single screen workstations are far less productive for me and I wanted to improve my mobile laptop set up. This is something I had been thinking about for…