If you recall back in March, I finished the overflow pipe and even 3D printed a plastic cover to keep the mosquitoes and snakes and other critters out. Well, that didn’t work so well. Sometime in the past week or two, a rat chewed through my beautiful cover. You can tell it was a rat…
Outdoor kitchen finished
The outdoor kitchen for BaanMae was finished today. You can see the finished trellis that was only partially done last time I posted a kitchen update. Also, the sink and faucets are installed. (“Taps” for you Brits. 😉 Under the sink, we installed a UV and carbon water filter. It is a standard 3 step…
Overflow pipe finally finished
After digging the trench and laying the overflow pipe, I thought it was just a simple matter of filling in the trench. But, as I’ve noticed with the software development projects at work, sometimes workers get distracted by other projects. Something that is 99% complete can sit unfinished for a surprising amount of time. Apparently,…
Can you 3D print a shoe?
3D printing is a very cool technology that has been around for a while, but only recently made it to consumer pricing levels. With it you can imagine something, design it in a CAD program (such as FreeCAD), and then print it so that you can hold it in your hand a few hours from…
Printing flexible shapes
I posted recently about the flexibility of various plastics including PLA, ABS, and nylon. While I’ve been wanting to play with so called “flex” materials for quite some time, I just received my first spool today from Print3DD.com. They’ve been out-of-stock ever since I bought my printer, but I noticed over the weekend that they…
A comparison of plastics
3D printing is a very cool technology allowing anyone at home to manufacture plastic goods in literally any shape. (Although not quite any size… size is limited by your printer.) The kinds of materials you can print with are limited to those that have a relatively low melting point which are mostly plastics and plastics…
Electrical wiring with VAF cable and 3D printed clips
The reason we have been using PVC conduit for most of our electrical wiring is that Praew always found the aluminum clips that one uses for mounting VAF wires to the wall ugly and cheap looking. We went through all the effort of building a simple and rustic looking wooden house… so we are trying…
Wiring up the LED lights
We are using small gauge VAF cable to wire up our DC LED lights now. VAF cable normally has a white PVC insulation on the outside for protection, so I decided to try make it blend in with the wooden walls better like we did with the PVC conduit piping. In addition, Praew really doesn’t…
A fully functional 3D printed ball bearing
I recently posted about my first experiments with using PVA to print a water soluble support. I almost immediately began imagining using this to print more complex moving parts. I’ve never printed a single part that contains multiple moving sub parts before, but a ball bearing is a pretty good example of this. So here…
3D printing with a water soluble support material
I’ve been designing and 3D printing parts for a few years now, and one of the limitations that I’ve been working around is in regards to support materials. While it is true that these kinds of extrusion printers can “print in 3D”, the head does need something to push the material down onto. For about…
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