I bloody love my little sister
 

My little sister has a company called naio nails she supplies fake nails to salons but also likes her boys toys
She called me today to ask if I wanted to use her new 3d printer for anything well bloody right I do just not sure what to print that would be useful anyone got any ideas

£5's £10's and £20's please .:p

I printed a gear knob, gear gaitor bezel:


Wheel hub centering rings:


Battery terminal cover


Cam rollbar mount:


Etc.

In general, have a look around www.thingiverse.com, maybe you'll find something that interests you. (My designs: http://www.thingiverse.com/alga42/designs)

Please print me a blonde. about 6ft tall, massive assets, very low morals, owns a brewery, likes washing up, loves fast cars, with an identical twin sister (for my best mate). Is that asking too much?

dont suppose you got the files for printing the parts for the printer you made may just print myself one

How about producing a wedge to go behind the fog light to make it sit vertically?

If you do 2 I will buy one off you :)

David

Square rain pipe not about the right size ?

I know handyandy used round pipe for his....but lights were obviously round :D

It's all open source. The printable parts for my particular printer can be found here: https://github.com/josefprusa/PrusaMendel, but if I were you I'd be looking at the Prusa i3 design: https://github.com/josefprusa/Prusa3
Most of the cost of the printer comes from the other parts, mind.

Looked at the examples of things you can make with the 3d printer and there doesn't seem to be anything worth making.------------------------------------------------
However it reminds me of the first home computers - they didnt do a lot. You could write a program to make the screen flash in different colours., draw wierd shapes or play simple tunes. ----fast forward to today.:eek:

I think this technology will be HUGEin the next few years:)

I agree with ayjay, it's going to huge.
I can also see it being used to make a form for fibre glass or carbon fibre ect. Much easier to design it in cad then print fettle then make the buck.

Something like this.

Cheers
Stot

You can produce things like that with 5axis mills check them out on you tube.
We have 3d printer in work and one student wrote a program to build a working bearing complete except the cage but it does rotate.

Arfon

Dunno if anyone has seen it but storage hunters on dave had one of those won in a lock up. When they took it to the manufacturers they showed it make a working wrench

Russ

Are you serious? 5 axis mills I can only dream about, I don't have access to a blooming lathe!

But i do Alga, a Hurco VM10U, been to Hurco for a two day training course for their programming software, head is now officially mushed

Arfon