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jelloslug

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Parts in da house!
« on: December 10, 2015, 09:38:20 AM »


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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2015, 10:42:31 AM »
The look like a bunch of marshmallows, like maybe yummy peeps for robots.
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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2015, 11:19:43 AM »
Maybe I'm crazy, but just looking at those battery cases kiiiinda makes me wish I had a white plastic Turbo Express....
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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2015, 12:08:20 PM »
That's awesome quality! What printer are you using? I've been considering getting a cheap-ish one to tinker with and would love to be able to turn out parts that are this nice.

jelloslug

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2015, 01:45:59 PM »
That's awesome quality! What printer are you using? I've been considering getting a cheap-ish one to tinker with and would love to be able to turn out parts that are this nice.

I have them done at Shapeways; they use $250,000 machines. I do my prototypes on a Makerbot Z18 but I would not use it for "production" parts.

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2015, 01:46:34 PM »
Maybe I'm crazy, but just looking at those battery cases kiiiinda makes me wish I had a white plastic Turbo Express....
It's possible...

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2015, 03:00:27 PM »
I have them done at Shapeways; they use $250,000 machines. I do my prototypes on a Makerbot Z18 but I would not use it for "production" parts.

Ah, that makes sense. Nice prototyping setup. I'm looking in the range of a fraction of the cost of even the Z18. Something like a Printrbot. Still good enough to learn on I hope.

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2015, 03:06:04 PM »
So...  Are you taking new orders for the Everdrive covers??? 


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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2015, 04:51:28 PM »
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Still good enough to learn on I hope

If you're still learning, stay under $500. You can get a pretty nice machine for that price to learn on and see if it's for you. Believe me, no matter what they say it is -not- "hook it up and print" :)


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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2015, 02:28:35 AM »
I have them done at Shapeways; they use $250,000 machines. I do my prototypes on a Makerbot Z18 but I would not use it for "production" parts.

Ah, that makes sense. Nice prototyping setup. I'm looking in the range of a fraction of the cost of even the Z18. Something like a Printrbot. Still good enough to learn on I hope.
If I were to buy a low cost machine today I would get something from Formlabs.

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2015, 02:29:07 AM »
So...  Are you taking new orders for the Everdrive covers??? 


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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2015, 02:35:11 AM »
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Still good enough to learn on I hope

If you're still learning, stay under $500. You can get a pretty nice machine for that price to learn on and see if it's for you. Believe me, no matter what they say it is -not- "hook it up and print" :)



That's right where I'm looking, price-wise. I would love to buy into one of the really nice ones, but after messing with the software a bit and the research I've done so far, I know I'll be printing more blobs than anything, so no need to have a nice one.

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2015, 03:09:56 AM »
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Still good enough to learn on I hope

If you're still learning, stay under $500. You can get a pretty nice machine for that price to learn on and see if it's for you. Believe me, no matter what they say it is -not- "hook it up and print" :)



That's right where I'm looking, price-wise. I would love to buy into one of the really nice ones, but after messing with the software a bit and the research I've done so far, I know I'll be printing more blobs than anything, so no need to have a nice one.
Modern printers are really easy to use.  Generating the models to print is the hard part for most people.

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2015, 02:03:39 PM »
So anyone got 3D plan for a Neptune shell?  People have married Genesis 2 and 32X into one system but it still looks like regular 16 bit console on the outside. There were picture of prototype around that looked good and I am sure it is possible to make a 3D printed shell that can fit both Genesis and 32x boards in one.

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Re: Parts in da house!
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2015, 06:19:29 AM »
Maybe I'm crazy, but just looking at those battery cases kiiiinda makes me wish I had a white plastic Turbo Express....
Maybe if they where beige that would be crazy.