I wanted to add an SSD to my system and needed some HDD brackets to place it inside the HDD tray. Dell was asking around $30 for it but luckily there was already a design for it on thingiverse.com I... Continue Reading →
Decided to print 2 calibration tools before i take apart my Ultimaker to install the upgraded parts. The first one is this design, intended to help you align pulleys. The second one is this design, to help you square up... Continue Reading →
I had family over who were looking for a coffee scoop/spoon. All the websites they found were charging up to € 5,- (excluding shipping). So i searched Youmagine / Myminifactory and thingiverse and found 2 posible candidates: - Illy Coffee... Continue Reading →
In order to reduce friction on my print head movement i'm gonna upgrade to the open end caps and add spacers. The parts have been printed, but haven't been able to install them yet. My spacer sizes are; Front: 2... Continue Reading →
We needed some curtain hooks for our nursery. Of course you can buy them but where is the fun in that, besides you got a 3D printer! I decided to print out this design from thingiverse. Worked just fine, had to... Continue Reading →
Because everything was going great i decided to print a toy for our cat. Just a simple ball to play with. After some time coming back into the room, i had to cancel the print for the first time in my... Continue Reading →
I noticed the printer was quite noisy - resonating on my desk. And after a quick google i found out a lot of people dampen the printer. To test the effect i placed the printer on big blocks of foam... Continue Reading →
Here we go, first print completed on the 'normal quality' profile in Cura 15.04. It printed on 50mm/sec and fun to watch 🙂 Unfortunately for Mr Robot i didn't know what was support and what wasn't so i ripped one... Continue Reading →
When i just got my Ultimaker i couldn't let it do a 'home' let alone get it to print. It was very hard to move the printhead. And was making a lot of rattling noise. To fix this i took... Continue Reading →
My Ultimaker journey 