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A couple of weeks ago some of us participated in an Expo at the local University. This is the second time we have been asked to come to this event. The Expo is to show off local organization on and off campus. We brought a couple 3D printers, laser cut items, soldering kits and a few other things. We met many people and received many compliments. I even heard “this is the coolest thing here”. Here are a few pictures of our table at the expo.

Big thanks to Thomas, Raymond, Jeff, Josh, and Tim for coming out and helping.

Thanks
Nathan

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A couple of nights ago, Bob and I started playing with a Maker Bot one of the Makers Local 256 members left at the shop.  I asked the member who owns it if I could try to get it working while he was gone on work travel.  Of course he said “Yes”.  He had been trying to get it to make a shot glass for a while.  Bob and I started playing around.  We installed the latest version of ReplicatorG and some new firmware.  Bob then determined that the head needed to be about .6mm off the printing service.  After he tagged me in, and I started playing with laying down a raft.  After a few failed attempts where the head didn’t seem like it was moving up the Z-axis enough, I learned to set the Flow Rate of the plastic to 230 instead of 250 in skeinforge.  Along with Bob’s findings we seemed to have found a very nice solution.  I was able to make a coin, most of a shot glass (something happen 3/4 the way through), and a companion cube.


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