Community Highlights – FABtotum

FABtotum files for liquidation.

Marco — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:15:54 +0000

We regret to inform that following a stakeholders decision FABtotum SRL is putting the activity on hold and liquidating his assets voluntarily.

A rapid shifting market and lower sales from 2016 to 2018 have created a condition of unsure recovery and profitability, culminating in this decision.
Following the crash of consumer 3D printer sales in 2016-2017, the new products in the B2B market were still not performing well in terms of units sold, despite the appreciation for the products.
Potential investors were not willing to finalize an offer in a dwindling market and strategic partnerships were taking more than expected to gain momentum in a very competitive arena.
To avoid increasing the debt with investors, suppliers and banks a voluntary debt relief liquidation has been filed.

The liquidation procedure, officially and lawfully filed, will carry on until debt relief is completed.
Anticipating this situation sales via the FABtotum online Store have been stopped beforehand.

The online services will continue to operate in the next weeks, giving access to documentation and all the website.
Online Support and email support have been temporarily terminated.
A FABUI patch will release soon to allow “Local Access” of the FABtotum FABUI software (bypassing the FABID login automatically).
The FABtotum Github account will still provide the open source code for all the FABUI software , the FABlin Firmware and FABtotum hardware.

While disappointing for everyone involved we hope with this measure to foster the conditions for FABtotum to continue making innovative solutions in the AM & 3D printing industry.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our partners and you, our customers, for your past business and trust.
Last, would like to thank our staff for their daily commitment, dedication and teamwork.

FABteam

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Community Highlights: 3D printed R2-D2 from Star Wars

Marco — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:30:34 +0000

Community Highlights

3D printed R2-D2 from Star Wars

Sinan, AKA Kralmarks, is not new to complex builds. We already featured him on a previous Community Highlight: he doesn’t play around when it come to 3D printing complex projects. This last one is actually still in progress right now, but we tought we should share it anyway because the massive work involved is truly inspiring.

Kralmarks shared with us , over the course of months, a series of 3D printed parts. The sequence was something like this:

Is it an ashtray?

Is it a cool-looking space interior?

Is it a lamp?

If the cylinder shape didn’t give it out yet, that’s the droid you are looking for: R2-D2!

Kralmarks latest project is to build a functioning, remote controlled R2-D2 with Arduino and a wireless module. The chassis with legs, the dome and the “Utility arm” is composed by 350 Pieces. 350!

It took Kralmarks about 100 hours to print and another 2 months to clean,join and glue together everything, for an overall weight of around 4kg (around 5 spools!).

This iconic astro droid is a 1:2 scaled down version of the original but it’s still 55 cm tall!
It may look a little pale right now, but the little droid just need some priming and a paint job and will be ready to jump in his own 1:2 scale model of the X-wing, which we are sure Kralmarks might as well do next, given his persistance!

We can’t wait to see R2-D2 beep and roam around, as it would be one of the coolest “geeky” 3D prints made with the FABtotum.
So don’t keep us waiting, help us Kralmarks, you are our only hope!

Get in touch with Kralmarks on Instagram and Facebook!
Got a design you want us to write about? Contact us.

That’s all for this Community Highlight, Special thanks to Kralmarks!
Long live and prosp.. err I mean, may the force be with you!

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Community highlight: 3D printed Cable Car scale model

Marco — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:41:45 +0000

On Tuesday we previewed Angelo D’angelo’s work, a early 20th century cable car model (or “Tram”) from Milan, Italy.
Today we take a look at how he did it.

The original article is available in Italian on Angelo’s Blog.

The return of the iconic Tram23, thanks to 3D Printing

Last year, when we sampled the Orange PLA material, the first thing that struck imagination was the very close color match with Milan’ “1500 Series” Cable cars. Still running because its historical value: foreigners who come to the city will be able to spot it, despite many cable cars have been updated with more modern versions.

Some of these ended up on 6000 miles west of Milan, in San Francisco , a city famous for his international cable cars.

Without any 3D model available Angelo started getting all the original drawings for a particular version of the tram, the 3- door variant still running to this day in Milan.
Considering the printable volume on the FABtotum personal fabricator, the max scale reacheable was 1:32, for a total legnth of 61cm splitted in 2 smaller parts.

With loads of pictures (some taken from the streets) and reference material, he started working on Autodesk Fusion 360, his preferred design software used for many other projects (including some of the 3Dprintravel series or buildings).
To keep the parts togheter metal pins were used.

With all the parts ready to be exported 3D printing could begin.
Overall it took 50 hours and a few tries, 5 different materials and over 45 parts were printed.
The model has also interiors: the interior paneling was made in wood so Woodfill PLA was used to simulate that.
Metal parts were printed with Silver PLA, and so on.

Assembly took a good amount of time as well (especially to find the time and patience to assemble it all).
Small clamps were used to fix parts together while instant glue cured.
In this phase transparent Acetate was used to simulate windows as well, a tecnique used in architectural models as well.

After all the work was done Angelo finally was able to contemplate his unique model.
There is another catch. The version of this cable car was in service up to 10 yars ago on the “Line 23” connecting the city centre to his university.
We are sure this 3D printed model will be a nice reminder of his student years and commuting in Milan.

Thanks to Angelo D’Angelo for sharing his project with us.

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Design and 3D print a robotic arm with Fusion360 and the FABtotum

Marco — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:42:23 +0000

Design and 3D print a robotic arm with fusion 360 and the FABtotum

Today we take a look at a simple but interesting project that made a few months ago. As the title implies, we designed, printed, assembled and tested a 3 axis robotic arm.
Parametric CAD and 3D printing allowed to do almost all of this in a day or so.

This is part 1 of 2. The second part comes in next week. Let’s get into it.

We started by designing a modular arm, one that could be printed in multiple copies and bolted to make the primary arm.
This design was first used as a proof of concept on 5 axis machining we did back in 2016.
The objective here was to create a very simple, easy to print and rigid structure that could be used for simple object manipulation.
The structure for it won’t need to be extremely stiff but we designed the arm as stiff as possible anyway.

The arm ends with the motor holder on one side (standard nema 17) and a standard FABtotum chuck on the other. So that you can have compatibilty with the 4th axis chuck we designed a few years ago. (This was designed in fusion 360 too).

With all the parts in place it was time to export them to STL and into a slicing software. For this project we used Simplify 3D, but any will do.
We filled the build platform with all the parts needed to make two axis (i.e: two arms!).

We used the Print Head Pro with our Orange PLA filament. Nothing too fancy but pleasant nonetheless, and reminescent of industrial heavy duty machinery.

To 3D print the parts we took advantage of our small industrial cluster of FABtotum 3D Printers, a set of internet-connected units we always have ready for production, prototypes and personal projects.
We connected using the my.fabtotum.com interface and uploaded the updated design files.

The print itself was made without batch controls (all parts at the same time). This allows to use the entire build surface since parts can be as close as possible between them.
In the next images you can see the build plate extracted to show how much space was still available should we wanted to make a fourth axis as well.

Once removed from the build plate, the parts were assembled with bolts seaparately.

On the third image of the previous row, a variant created with the 4th axis chuck attached.

The arm will be mounted on a single motor (axis A) that will rotate around the vertical axis. The other two motors will respectively lower the arm and tilt the forearm.

With those 2 orange arms assembled we proceeded bolting the two together, making the B and C axis respectively.
The range of motion of this arm isn’t comparable with 4-5 axis robots but it’s enought to do some simple pick and place of objects.

This will indeed be the application we will implement in part 2.
In Part 2 we’ll create the base and the forearm in fusion, design and build a simple electromagnet so that the arm is able to pick up metal objects from a container and deposit them in another.

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Community Highlight : 3D printing for Retrogaming

Marco — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:08:21 +0000

3D printing for retrogaming

Rasmushauschild’ Super Pi Boy – Raspberry Pi 3 Game Boy is a favourite among retrogaming enthusiasts.
The super Pi Boy is a 3D printed Gameboy that packs a punch: a Raspberry Pi3 as a computer module , a Linux based OS and a full color TFT display.
Powered by a lithium battery it runs Retropie, a custom raspbian distribution optimized and outfitted for the sole purpose of retrogaming.

Rasmushauschild describes it as:

It’s built around the Raspberry Pi 3 single board computer, making it a seriously powerful device!
It runs Retropie which provides a wide variety of emulators, all the way from the first Atari console to the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast and everything in between!

Since at FABtotum we all love the Raspberry Pi (The FABtotum personal fabricator /core uses one to run the FABUI!) and retrogaming, once we saw we could 3D print most of the components it was only logical that we started this DIY project in the spare time.

3D printing the shell

The super raspi boy is made out of two separate shells, that were 3d printed using FABtotum PLA and the Print head PRO using the FABtotum Core Multipurpose 3D printer.
The shell , resembling a 1989 Nintendo Gameboy, has been modified to add a few buttons not present in the original version, useful for navigating the emulator menus, pausing ,etc.
These bottons, also 3D printed, sits upon digital switches directly placed under the front shell.
Printing all these components is pretty straightforward, provided buttons are sliced with a skirt to increase adhesion.

Assembly

Once the shells are printed each component is placed inside and soldered together following the schematics.

The biggest part of soldering was connecting all the digital switches to the GPIO ports. Not a complex task but delicate and trivial, especially when the space for cable management was restricted.

The GPIO pins are connected to each and every switch in order to read the digital inputs.
Soldering everything with the 2 3D printed case halves side by side is the best option, as the folded cables add up fast and the shortest they are the better.
The screen required a small modification in order to be powered correctly and the battery was a little bit too big for the enclosure (an extra 2mm needed to be squeezed in) but everything worked out fine.

After a couple of hours, once assembly was complete ,we tested the whole assembly first by checking the power was charging the battery and then firing up Retropie from the SD card.
After a successfull login (A monitor and a keyboard or a SSH terminal is a must) we set up the GPIO ports using the Adafruit retrogame script (you can find it here).
After every button was working along with the battery and audio it was time to put everything together with screws.

TimoG‘ Super Pi Boy from Twitter

Conclusions

The final result is a dream come true for every kid from the 80’s: a portable emulation platform that condenses around 20 years of gaming from the first ZX spectrums to the N64.
The sheer amount of fun (and nostalgia) potentially condensed in this kind of projects is mind boggling!

If you have the time to print out the parts and willing to buy the components needed this is definitely one of the coolest DIY projects in gaming.
A shout out to Rasmushauschild for making this available to everyone (you can reach him via email here).
A thanks also to TimoG that shareds his own Super Pi boy made with his FABtotum 3D printer (on the left).

Resources:
3D printed parts: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1779343

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Community Highlight : 3D Printed Crane Anemometer

Marco — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:02:11 +0000

Community Highlight : 3D Printed Crane Anemometer

Tobias Innerbichler is from Tyrol, a lovely region in the European Alps.
His job is somewhat of a dream for most of the kids: he is a Crane operator!

He’s also a passionate DIY hobbyist and a 3D printing enthusiast as you will soon discover.
As any sensible Crane operator knows, wind can be a safety concern for the people around, the buildings surrounding the crane and the operator itself as it can exercise a decent force on the load being lifted and on the crane structure itself.
The safety limit to operate a crane is 70km/h (around 43 mph or 38 knots).
Cranes have suffered major damages and even complete failure damaging things and causing injuries or death.
It is obvious at this point that being alert about the wind situation is a major safety concern.

It is usually harder to keep track of wind when you work in a closed hull and you are focused on the task of moving extremely expensive and heay materials, so it made sense to Tobias to ease the measurement of the wind speed.

To do so he created a 3D printed anemometer with Red PLA filament.

He Drew everything on Onshape, a free online CAD drawing tool, exported on STL and sliced as usual in Cura.
The anemometer is composed of a rotor, arms and cups that rotate thanks to an axle on a couple of bearings.
The wind , over a certain threshold, will make the anemometer arms spin.

The anemometer is mounted on top of the crane, the highest point of the machinery, to avoid air currents and vortexes that normally generate near big structures and buildings.
To measure the wind Tobias uses a bike tachimeter in line with the main rotor shaft, so he can have a reading from an LCD, possibly even in the crane cockpit by extending the cable for a few meters.

This project is definitely helpful for the application it serves, as it solves a tangible problem that involves usability and safety.
In many industrial and heavy duty/building sectors we see the use of 3D printing in small accessories like this.
It’s great to see that even with small components a big impact can be made to improve safety and situation awareness.

Thanks and credits goes to Tobias Innerbichler for sharing his project with us.

We always look for exciting new projects to showcase what personal fabrication is all about.
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Community Highlight: Solder Paste Dispensing Head

Marco — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:11:12 +0000

Solder Paste Dispensing head by S&I Engineering

A few Projects we covered are as structured, well documented and useful as the one from S&I Engineering, a Greek Company specialized in a series of digital manufacturing, software and hardware oriented activities.
The project in question is a Solder Paste Dispensing Head, a custom FABtotum head build upon FABtotum own Head Development Kit (HDK) capable of Solder paste deposition. By using the FABtotum as the multipurpose platform it is, they were able to use it to lay drops of solder paste on printed circuit boards (PCBs).
In other words this custom head is meant to do the dirt and boring job of preparing PCBs for soldering in the reflow oven, a huge advantage when dealing with very small quantities of prototypes.

There are many reasons to take a look at this project:

It’s made with off-the shelfs components for the most part.
The remaining components are easily replicable on the FABtotum itself with 3D printing, Laser Engraving or PCB milling.
All the parts, codes and PCB layouts are provided.
Assembly and everything else is well documented.
It actually solve a problem.

Head Development Kit

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The 3D printed parts

The mechanical components (nine in total) are used to convey motion from a stepper motor to a leas screw that in turn squeezes a siringe.
During the project these componets have been adapted from TwinTeeth design then 3D printed with the FABtotum personal fabricator itself.
On the left the assembly (minus the electronics, syringe and motor) is presented.
The base in particular has been modified to be fit the Head development kit and in particular to screw on the metal plate provided with it, on top of wich the head development board itself is mounted.
Aside from the syringe moveable clamp (on top) there are no 3D printed moving parts.

The total assembly is a bit higher than the standard head enclosure so it had to be mounted without it.

In action

Electronics & Coding

To control the stepper motor a PCB has been made in kiCAD. it is a FTDI circuit.
The head is equipped with an Arduino Nano, connected to the HDB in order to receive serial commands from the Totumduino controller inside the FABtotum via the flex cable.
If it sound complex it’s because it is, and S&I Engineering went the extra lenght in implementing all the communication protocols .
As a side note it is also important to notice that other options to control motors with less components exists, like using the 5th axis native port (on the bed connection board inside the FABtotum Core) or using the newest FABlin feature to send steps/dir directly via software and the HDK board pins (SCL=Feeder Step , I2C SDA=Feeder Dir, SERVO +5v =Feeder Enable).

This FTDI circuit PCB has also been milled with FABtotum using FlatCAM to generate the gcode and the Milling Head V2 with a V-Carve engraving bit, wich makes everything even more impressive.

Back to the serial comunication, the Arduino sketch has been developed to act like an intermediary, executing stepping controls directly from the head to the attached stepper motor.
The *.ino file can be opened in the Arduino IDE, can be flashed on the Arduino Nano, and is open source so can be studied and modified to fit custom needs.

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Assembly & Testing

As per documentation the non replicable parts are the following
An Arduino Nano v3 , a 28BYJ-48-5V step motor and a ULN2003 driver.
for the syringe 1 x 10cc syring pump with an 20G-0.6mm ID-1.5 inch length dispensing needle
For the actual paste : Diluted Leadless Solder Paste with IPA (Isopropil Alchool).

Once the assembly is completed and the electronics wired, the serial comands can be tested in order to check that everything is working as intended.

Gcode commands can be executed manually from the JOG menu of the FABUI or one can plug into the FABUI Colibri and wirte their own Gcode controlling script or FABUI Plugin on the onboard Raspberry Pi.
A nice video of the head being controlled is shown on the right, curtesy of S&I Engineering Youtube Channel.

Resources & Credits

In the IT industry the success of a platform can be expressed in the number of users it serves. Another way to measure success it looking at the number of projects taking full advantage of said platform.
This project actully does that and more. it Exploits the FABtotum for what it is on multiple levels.
While the FABtotum is primarily a tool to make things, it is also more than that.
This Head parts has been made with the FABtotum CORE, a manufacturing device to make things first, but also a multipurpose device on wich this head is fully justified and fulfill a vision of multipurpose /multimaterial manufactuing for wich we strive everyday by provinding more and more expandable heads,software and documentation.
This project not also expand the range of possibilities but it’s been made possible by the very tools we provided, the Print head, the Milling head and the head Development Kit, wich makes us -in turn – very proud of the results.

Special thanks S&I Engineering for sharing their work with us.
All the projects are available at: thingiverse.com, youmagine.com and grabcad.com.

We always look for exciting new projects to showcase what personal fabrication is all about.
Share your projects with the community: send us what you have been doing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram!

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FABtotum’s Community Highlights: multicolor 3D printing #2

Marco — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:15:33 +0000

Community Highlight : Multicolor 3D Printing on the FABtotum

Last year we showed how to do multicolor 3D printing with some gcode modifications.
Since then, thanks to your feedbacks and suggestions we introduced Assisted Filament change & pre-programmed or manual pause management during the print on FABUI Colibri (by adding M0 in the gcode where a pause is needed or clicking the Pause botton on the FABUI page).
This approach allows to change filaments during the print, a process a little bit tedious that however gives good results, as shown in the aforementioned article.
What was once a complex procedure can now be executed thanks to one of our latest software updates.

Today we take a look at another application of multicolor, that allows changes of filaments during the same layer.
We take a look at Tommaso Spanò‘s combined use of the FABtotum Core PRO (with Printing Head PRO) and Mosaic Manufacturing’s own Palette+.
Tommaso just received his brand new batch #1 Palette+ and was eager to test it with the FABtotum Core. He used FABtotum’s filaments as well.

Tommaso’s Palette+ takes up to four filaments (even more if you are VERY good in timing) and combines them into a single filament strand. This strand is then fed to the Printing Head PRO, enabling the creation of multi-filament prints.
This includes PVA filaments to create supports that are solubile in water that do not require mechanical removement by hand.

“To 3D print a complex multicolour object with a single extruder you need to modify the gcode”

The strange object near the actual model on the Hybrid Bed is actually used to discharge the heating chamber of the nozzle from the old, undesired color.
It’s basically a place where to dump the remaining filament between two colors and where you actually waste material during colour transitions layer by layer.
For this reason it’s commonly referred to as the “waste tower”. Proper name, anyway, would be “transition tower”.

Get your Printing Head PRO

Find out our Filaments’ range

While the FABtotum Personal Fabricator Core has no official dual extrusion Head at the moment (YET) it’s great to see that the potential of the platform is exploited with this and other projects, thanks to the open source nature of the hardware and software stack.

How does this thing work?

As for all technical details, there is a lot to tell. Best things is to read more on Mosaic’s Palette dedicated page, or you can simply contact Tommaso Spanò, who will be happy to get you a couple of extra details.

Here are just a couple of small “thing to know”:

Palette is compatible with both FABtotum’s Heads, so any of you can give it a try;
Bundled software (Chroma) will help you. No need to change anything on the FABtotum. Other small parts will as well manage the filament check;
A so-called “ping” and “pong” system will help you calculating the right amount of material for each layer;
Extra work is needed on the gcode: get your patience and 3D printing skills ready to be practiced!

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Share your projects

Special thanks to Tommaso Spanò for sharing his work with us.
We always look for exciting new projects to showcase what personal fabrication is all about.
Share your projects with the community: send us what you have been doing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram!

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FABtotum’s Community Highlights: time to play!

Alessia — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:31:14 +0000

Hi all,
we’re ready to share another story with you.
In these days many things are coming up, from events (have a look at our agenda!) to national holidays. But Giovanni Mancino, the protagonist of this Community Highlight, has so many projects alive he barely manage to get everything done right on time.

He has a small business starting up and here are a few ideas that came out of his FABtotum that will get him right where the people need him.
He has been using the FABtotum Personal Fabricator with an Hybrid Head and he got skilled little by little. Today he is pro user!

The Juventus Clock
Hard task for a guy who is an Inter FC supporter. You know italians are crazy for football. It was not too hard for the FABtotum though! This was one of his first tasks and was a gift for a friend.

Here is what it took:

12 hours of modeling;
14 hours of printing;
0.5 hours to get everything together and sand off where he got too far with tolerances (we all know how disturbing tolerances can be, right?)

He used the colors of the team (black and white) and then designed a pink stand composed by two polygons forming the ball (the hexagon and the pentagon). The color represents the very first uniform, which had a pink t-shirt. As you can see from the pictures, he then needed to mount the motor and make the clock functioning. We’ll show you the picture of another clock he made just to get you an idea on how he could do this. So yes, he can 3D print clocks. Amazing right? But that’s not all!

And here you have the final look, of course it is completely functioning!

The Trumphets set
Here in Italy we normally give a small item as gift/souvenir for the special events. Everything is a good reason: from births to anniversaries, weddings, graduations, licences… just everything.
Giovanni made these cute trumphets for a guy who got his conservatory graduation in…well, that’s obvious, right?
Here is what it took:

1.30 hours of modeling;
3 hours of printing;
7.50 hours of post processing.

Reading the numbers it is easy to understand that the hardest part was the latest. Easy to shape, easy to print…with lots of supports. As you may know, supports are the materials printed to preserve quality when angles and curves can be too difficult. The extras will sustain the final object so that nothing gets damaged or of poor quality. Supports then need to be scratched off gently. Depending on the used slicing software, they can be different in thickness, shape, and distance from the object. They need to be carefully set, otherwise they can be useless or, in the worst scenario, they can even damage the print.
Giovanni used a scalpel to make sure that all the small 3D printed trumpeths were nice in their gold PLA structure.
We really love the final result (and we can barely think of him trying not to get crazy while removing all the supports, considering it took a whole night until 6am)! Detailed, shiny, cute: they’re perfect to celebrate a graduation!

So, congratulation to the trumphet player but to Giovanni as well! He will soon have a Facebook page, we’ll share the link as soon as available.

If you want to contact him, tell us, we’ll do the trick for you.

That’s all for today,
keep following us!

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FABtotum’s Community Highlights: multifunction tests from Japan

Alessia — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:00:26 +0000

Hi all,
with today’s Community Highlight we would like to introduce you a very skilled Japanese guy: he got a very first FABtotum model and then updated it little by little during these years. He owns a full set of heads, included the recently released Laser Head.
Hkora11, that’s his nickname on the web, is a great skilled guy who knows how to take the most out of all the FABtotum’s functions. 3D printing, CNC milling and now Laser engraving!
That’s the aim of having a multitool, right?

So, what does he do? Many things. He owns a blog where he shows his tries but it is written in japanese. That’s why we’ll get you a complete set of ideas: he speaks a little english, so do not be afraid and contact him if you have anything you want to know!

3D printing shrenked
He started from the (probably) easiest of the FABtotum’s functions. Firstly, he used an Hybrid Head; then, he switched to a Printing Head V2. But! He needed to get small detailed figurines and he just worked hard in order to get the task completed. In his blog you can read dates are going back in the years. Among the most recent jobs there is the well finished bust here below. Printed with supports, Hkora11 replaced the nozzle with a custom made 0.2mm one. This small size allows him to reach a higher quality: the smaller the size, the greater the precision. Less material means thinner layers, which result in a smoother profile.

Milling 3D printer’s parts
As he needed a smaller nozzle he just created it. Yes, really. After some tries he managed to mill aluminium with enough precision and he then used the result to 3D print. He started from softer materials in order to set the file properly and then got the metal version. With a FABtotum there’s no need to 3D print metal. You can carve it with a Milling Head! Read more about the evolution of his trials on his blog.

Lasering: still testing
Could he resist to the temptation? Nope. He was one of the first to rush to get his Laser Head!
Soon after he started trying and he is still. We’ll wait to see some more, but we already know he’ll get something interesting to be shared. He well calibrated as he got the grey scale correctly pictured and he is already playing with some pictures. Let’s see what he will do!

Hkora11 has very good skills and we’re happy to have him among our users. Want to write him and get tips? Do that! Better if you can speak a bit of japanese!
That’s all for this post: we’d rather have you to interact between you so don’t be shy and ask if you are interested in what he does. Of course, let us know what you create, as we believe in our great Community and want to see it growing.

Got something you want to share with us? Have questions? Write us!

Keep following us,
FABteam

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