Houston Maker Faire

Maker Faire is a interesting gathering of makers and creative people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do with the maker communnity. If you enjoy technology and the DIY approach to life you’ll fit right in.

• Engineers
• Artists
• Scientists
• Crafters

Re:3D Gigabot Large Scale 3D Printer

re:3D showcase their new 3d printer pellet extruder. Their printer the Gigabot X is a large scale 3d printer with a optional 3d printer pellet extruder for large scale 3d printing.

3D Printed Violins

Here’s some really cool 3d printed Violins designed and developed by Lune Yang.

PolyPrinter

We had a chance to check out PolyPrinter. They manufacture and sell fdm 3d printers that have amazing print quality.

Ponytrap

We got a chance to Ponytrap at the Houston Maker Faire 2018. They’re an interesting band of two who play along with robot drummers that they buildt theirselfs. Ponytrap played an awesome show and was a highlight of Houston Maker Faire 2018.

Modular 3D Printer

3D Printer Food & Chocolate Extruder

Here’s a prototype model of our chocolate extruder. Its more of a experimental paste extruder/injection tool that can be used for foods and other types soft solids or thick resins.

https://makezine.com/2018/10/11/10-projects-to-seek-out-at-maker-faire-houston-2018/

For more DIY, maker and 3d printed awesomeness…. check out MRRF.

Best CoreXY 3D Printers 2020

Shane Hooper July 31, 2020 No Comments

Is CoreXY better? What is the best 3d printer to start with? We review the newest coreXY 3d printers of 2020.

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Linear Stops / Endstop Switch Mount

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Have you ever fought to keep linear rails aligned properly? Have you ever over traveled the carriage and crashed into your endstop switch damaging vital…

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Design Constraints in Large Scale 3D Printers

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Design Constraints in Large Scale 3D Printers

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Best CoreXY Designs on Thingiverse

Shane Hooper May 17, 2019 No Comments

While there are many open source 3d printer designs to pick from on Thingiverse. And when it comes to corexy printer designs there are a…

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Store

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Print Quality

Shane Hooper August 26, 2020 No Comments

Recomended Print Settings PLA PLA / Polylactic acid is a bio-degradable thermoplastic most commonly used in most FDM 3d printers. Easy to Print Durable and…

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Large Scale 3D Printers

Shane Hooper August 3, 2020 No Comments

We had a chance to see BigRep’s large scale 3d printer at the Rapid Event + TCT additive manufacturing convention. They had two printers on…

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Nema Motor Mounts

Shane Hooper August 1, 2020 No Comments

We have a variety of Nema stepper motor mounts, brackets and plates. If you’re looking to build or upgrade a 3d printer or DIY CNC…

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Rapid Event TCT

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The RAPID + TCT also know as Rapid Event is a conference that’s known worldwide as North America’s most influential additive manufacturing conference. Industry leaders…

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Railcore 3D Printer

Shane Hooper May 24, 2019 No Comments

We first discovered RailCore Labs and their beautiful corexy design at MRRF 2019. The Railcore 3d printer was designed by designed by Tony Akens and…

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MRRF 2019

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Midwest Reprap Festival 2019 was wven more than the year before. There were so many more people attending and exhibiting. The venue was packed to…

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Machine Shop

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Machine Shop In Conroe

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CoreXY 3D Printer

Shane Hooper May 13, 2019 No Comments

Modular Scalable Linear Rails Balanced Carriage Pull Enclosure BOM utilizes most available parts All Metal Parts or 3D Printed Z-Axis: Independent Driven or Shared Belt…

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My account

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White Knight 3D Printer

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Carl from NAK3DDesigns Have you ever needed to print an object but you were limited to the size of your 3d printer print area? If…

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Houston based machine shop manufactures 3d printers and 3d printer parts.

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   Shane, the latest files are from 2018, any new updates or learnings you would share?

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   Yeah I’ll check it out….. There should be a step file of the complete assembly. I always keep the WIP…

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   This printer is something I have been searching for a while, with my intention of building a printer for exotic…

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   madiabby123 please share your BOM research, I’m investigating a build as well. If you have completed the build, would like…

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   The Igus part numbers don’t line up? They must of changed the part numbers or something. I’ll look into this.…