Recent content by Nifty

I had an idea for a practical little crate for organizing project supplies in my garage: make the base and all four walls print flat, then assemble them with filament instead of hinges. I could not find quite what I had in mind, so I tried using AI as a hands-on design collaborator. The...

Just wanted to update that I'm loving my A1-Mini! It does about 95% of what I need, and she's it very well!

I gave into temptation and bought 10 rolls of Elegoo Rapid PLA Plus Filament Black: https://us.elegoo.com/products/rapid-pla-plus-filament-1-75mm-black-10kg-1?variant=44907612340405 Reviews online were pretty good and the price was phenomenal. I've been relatively happy with their filament...

This is fantastic! I love these practical prints. The very vast majority of the prints that I make are practical and often fixes to things around the house. That said, I saw a model that I just had to print using thermo temperature-sensitive filament...

Brilliant ! Did you use PLA ?? I've been really happy with TPU for stuff like that because it's so durable and gives a little bit of flex

WOW, I'm surprised I haven't posted to this thread in forever! Today's print = Sprinkler timer cover: This timer has a screen and rubber buttons sitting in the super hot / UV sun all day. I figured I should protect it. So, I modeled this up and it fits perfectly! I printed it out of PLA and...

Basically this. LOL!

Agreed, most likely a bad batch. I'll admit that I have some rolls of PLA that are pretty old (still in the vac sealed and in temp-controlled cabinet)... but I'm sure that some of them were brittle relatively soon after I got them.

Sorry @Tony4597 I didn't see your reply. yes, it's completely acting like that where it snaps when bent. ... But I am almost positive it's not moisture related, at least not in a way that I can fix. I have done tremendously long dehydration cycles and processes with this filament and it...

Wow, those are beautiful! I completely understand your hesitation to not take the mower to them. My other half is also considerably green-fingered! Here's some of her flower work:

We have baby chicks and the mason-jar feeder just isn't cutting it... especially because you have to fill it up and then quickly invert it, and you lose a ton of volume doing so So I took a much larger container that I can fill from the top. :) Here's what I came up with. I down - resized...

Wow! This is such an amazing combinations and application of these technologies!

This was amazing! I always loved animation, especially claymation and stop motion.

I've never had success drying filament that is brittle and it becoming less brittle. From the research I've done there are a few other things that can cause filament to get brittle that are independent of moisture and humidity. I end up tossing some of the filament but there is some that is...

One of the main reasons I got the H2S is because of the huge print bed and that it's an enclosed printer. Using multiple colors was kind of a side bonus. Yep, same for me too. In fact I just finished a project where I did multi-colors per layer like you have in your great examples and it...