Rolive
@Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Partially 3D printed CNC machine 6 hours ago:
Nice to hear! At the moment the spindle, if it has the right to be called that, is a 775 motor with a chuck attached to it. Which is good enough for circuit boards and wood. Perhaps aluminium is doable as well as long as the feed rate is kept slow enough.
Should milling steel ever be on the table I’ll make a larger machine and will use leadscrews on X and Y instead of belts and perhaps dual Z motors.
I’ve also designed the build around materials that were readily available such as the 18mm X rails. Apparently they’re quite obscure since they aren’t sold on typical Chinese webshops.
- Comment on Partially 3D printed CNC machine 19 hours ago:
Thanks! Indeed the Z axis rests on only one MGN12H block. For stability it can be changed to two sliders per rail at the cost of work area. For circuit boards and wood it should be strong enough to handle the load.
As for github/launchpad, I never used those before for sharing anything. I will look into those.
- Comment on Partially 3D printed CNC machine 1 day ago:
Nice! Once you get the hang of it FreeCAD is quite pleasant to use in my experience. I’ve updated the OP with a gdrive link.
- Comment on Partially 3D printed CNC machine 1 day ago:
I’ve updated the OP with a Google drive link.
- Comment on Cow eggs 2 days ago:
Okay now tell me where bull milk comes from.
- Submitted 2 days ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 4 days ago:
I use a small hotplate at about 125 degrees and an aluminium baking tray. If you spread the beads out thinly it will dry pretty quickly.
Alternatively you can use an old microwave and that should remove moisture from the silica gel in a matter of minutes. You can easily overheat them though.
- Comment on I think I bought the wrong game 2 weeks ago:
A meme about a meme about memes. Impressive.
- Comment on Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Well that is one thing I’ll never have. My appendix got removed years ago.
- Comment on Threaded Insert Press Is 100% 3D Printed 3 weeks ago:
I just use tweezers and a blue flame lighter. Heat it for 5 seconds then put it in the plastic. Then use the back of the tweezers as a flat surface to push it all the way in.
This worked well so far and I really don’t see the need for a special soldering iron bit or a press like this.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 3 weeks ago:
I played it too.
- Comment on Bugs 3 weeks ago:
Would you like to know more?
- Comment on At what point is an Ender 5 no longer an Ender 5? 3 weeks ago:
I got an Orbiter 1.5 extruder and have been quite happy about it since. These days you’d be better off getting an Orbiter 2. As for the toolhead, there should be Ender 5 compatible mounts available on Printables or Thingiverse, if not you could design your own.
You can import a STEP model of both the Ender 5 and whatever mod you want to make to it and model your toolhead around it, that is what I did with the Mercury One project.
- Comment on At what point is an Ender 5 no longer an Ender 5? 3 weeks ago:
It’s worth the effort imo.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 4 weeks ago:
Duolingo is so stupidly annoying these days. It has gotten so much worse compared to a few years ago.
Constant bugging, too many popups that are almost as bad as Microsoft products. I want to learn a goddamn language not jump through a hundred hoops every single time.
Not to mention that it all boils down to a guessing game. Some questions have multiple answers and unless you choose that specific one that DuoLingo had in mind it counts as wrong. It also won’t tell you why you guessed wrong.
Are there better apps these days?
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 4 weeks ago:
2025 as well.
- Comment on Any resources on using a 3D printer as a plotter cutter 4 weeks ago:
It’s not bad I would say. Right now I’m making a dedicated CNC for these kind of things and have the 3D printer just 3D print.
Here’s an example of a result from the laser cutter attachment.
- Comment on Any resources on using a 3D printer as a plotter cutter 4 weeks ago:
I have made something similar before for my Ender 5. You could indeed just tape it to the toolhead and set your home coordinates manually.
printables.com/…/1071387-ender-5-x-mgn12-detachab…
It’s definitely possible and the biggest challenge is making gcode that is compatible with Marlin. I’ve tried using gcode substitution commands in Prusaslicer as well as programs like FlatCAM and gotten good results out of it.
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 4 weeks ago:
Indeed I’d have to play with the distance between the printed plastic and the nozzle as well as air pressure, otherwise it’s a silly string machine. But that seems to be the easy part.
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 4 weeks ago:
Well. I didn’t mean if part cooling was even necessary at all. Of course it is when printing anything with overhangs. I wanted to replace blower fans with a small compressor on the side of the 3D printer.
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 4 weeks ago:
Nice, that is indeed what I meant. Recently I’ve designed a new toolhead for a 3D printer but have just used blower fans and fan ducts like any other toolhead but while designing I wondered if more weight/volume could be removed without losing functionality.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 9 comments
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- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 1 month ago:
The Witcher 1 is best played on the easiest difficulty. Just play it for the story.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 1 month ago:
Howtobasic is that you?
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 month ago:
Yeah idk. I don’t want to support this bit I also don’t want to spend anymore than the minimum on streaming. I plan to unsubscribe after finishing Andor anyway.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 month ago:
I paid for the ad tier of disneyplus and use an adblocker. Seems to work well so far.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 month ago:
I’m glad Google still labels the AI overview in search results so I know to scroll further for actually useful information.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 month ago:
Beep boop
- Comment on Daly BMS experience 1 month ago:
Good point and this is exactly what I’m trying to make. I want to start with the battery for emergency power and want to add a home made MPPT solar charger to it.
My battery design involves having a thermal fuse of 65C sandwiched in between parallel cells. I will also periodically check the batteries with a thermal camera to see if any are misbehaving.
