Tag: Assembly

  • Building the Creality Ender 3 Pro: Tips and Tricks

    About a year ago my wife bought an Creality Ender 3 Pro 3d printer for me from MicroCenter, with a coupon she spent $99+tax. I left it sitting on a shelf for months because I figured, “how good can it be for $99”, but a few months back I decided to build it and give…

  • X-Gantry Assembly

    This is part 3 of my X-Gantry Upgrade, for the previous article follow this link. Yesterday I printed the smaller parts needed for the gantry, and today I plan to complete the X-Gantry Assembly.

  • 3D printing. First experience? Almost…

    Over twenty years ago I had my first experience with CNC and g-code. I wrote a program for a steel company to merge simple 2D g-code files, used to control plasma cutters, to optimize usage of steel plate with minimum waste. I have watched for the last few years as 3D printing finally became available to the masses.