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Come one, come all.
See the wonders of ancient 3D printers unearthed at the Makers Local 256!
Be amazed by a printing technology unseen since nineteen hundred and ninety seven A.D.!
Marvel at the rugged construction that can be left in a barn for nearly 15 years!
Gasp as this once dormant design device springs to life, fresh from the packaging*
See it live tonight only! (videos posted later this week)

Today, May 16th, After our regular monthly meeting, We will be throwing a little party to celebrate unboxing of a BPM 2100 Personal Modeler that we received last week, still in it’s original shipping create. Meeting starts at 7:30pm, the event will be directly after the meeting finishes. Drink a beer, reminisce about the 90’s, and talk 3D printers until we get tired and go home. (some of us have to work in the morning, I know.)

Moe is waiting to be unpacked, Curly's broken, but it's ok, Shemp can step up to keep things running.

*This printer is not guaranteed functional or “fresh”. Packaging is open to the elements. Frankly it’s a long shot, but hey, we’ve got ~4 of these puppies, and we can probably get one of them moving again that night.

Oh, and by the way… We have moved and will hold the meeting and the party at the new shop:
414 Stevens Ave.

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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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