3D Printing on Camping Coder

Maxing out the Mini Delta 3D printer

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500

It’s been a bit since the last post as we’ve been adventuring a lot lately. We’re getting ready for Halloween by printing out ghost decorations on the Monoprice Mini Delta and we’re maxing out the build volume in the process. Follow along and check out how to get the most out of the little printer.

With Halloween around the corner, I was feeling a little behind the curve when it came to all the cool stuff that I could print out for the holiday found on Thingiverse. I looked at dozens of spooky items, but kept coming back to the same will it be big enough thought. This is mainly because the Mini Delta can only print 110mm (4.33") in diameter, but I typically only go to 90mm (3.54") just so I have a little give. About the time I was going to give up the search I found it - a PacMan Ghost Lantern!

Scaling woes with 3D Printing

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Overall

If you’ve been following along with the 3D printing series you’ll know that it’s fairly easy to use a Chromebook to print to your 3D printer using an AstroBox Gateway Raspberry Pi 3 Kit. For a while now it’s been perfect while learning the ropes of 3D printing, but now I’ve moved into an area where I want pre-existing parts to integrate into my projects and that’s where the problem is. With the current setup of a Monoprice Mini Delta and the Astrobox there is no easy way to adjust for your machine’s particulars. Follow along to see how I’ve mitigated the issue for myself and you can leverage the same solution too!

3D Printing with Astroprint

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500

If you read any of the other posts in the 3D printing series you’ll know that after reading The MagPi issue 69 I think that the itch of 3D printing had solidly re-emerged in me. Additionally, if you’ve looked around Camping Coder you’ll also know that I’m a huge fan of Chromebooks in general. That’s where the AstroBox Gateway Raspberry Pi 3 Kit comes into play. It’s an awesome little tool which will allow you to easily print to your Monoprice Mini Delta from your Chromebook.

Monoprice Mini Delta

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500

After reading The MagPi issue 69 I think that the itch of 3D printing had solidly re-emerged in me. About five years ago, I was very close to building one from scratch, but cost really kept me away. In the issue, MagPi shows off a $100 kit printer, and lets face it - for $100 you really can’t go wrong.

Like any good nerd I started learning everything that I could about that one. Two of the major barriers were that it was on a multi month back order, which I really don’t have patience for and the other was the eight plus hour build time - between all of the other things in this season of life there really isn’t eight hours to build a printer to be had.

3D Printing from a Chromebook

Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500

If you’ve been following us for any length of time you probably already noticed that we huge fans of Chrome OS. With that there are often issues that need to be worked around or dealt with when working with a highly secured OS, with a semi limited app ecosystem. One of them is that you cannot simply go install an application to run your 3D printer. With restrictions though sometimes better more innovative processes can flourish. Follow along with us as we show you how we got into 3D printing for only a few hundred dollars and a Chromebook!