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25 Nov 2017 Large 3D Printer
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I was reminded by a few colleagues that I have not updated this blog in years now. I guess, I’ve just been too busy playing to blog.

When I had moved to the US (2014), I had backed a kickstarter project called Cobblebot. I’m not even going to link to it here as it was a really bad experience, however it did get me started with 3D printing. With the help of fellow backers on Google+, I was able to build a decent printer that provided me lots of fun. I had never built it for anything serious and most of the things I ended up printing were downloads from thingiverse. But, it was fun nevertheless:

In it’s final version it was able to print a size of 14″x14″x14″; though I never printed anything that large. I built and re-built it multiple times with new upgrades all the time; mainly using ideas from the Google+ community

The first print was a hollow cube:

But went on to print lots of great prints once I had the settings and upgrades done. Some examples include:

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One of the best upgrade I did was change the controller from RAMPS that came with the kit to a Cohesion3D ReMIX. It’s 32-bit, runs Smoothieware and makes the motions so smooth and results so amazing, I simply don’t know why everyone still uses the RAMPS controllers. I also wrote a blog post for 3DPrinterChat that describes how you can use the Smoothie compatible boards to easily replace your RAMPS controller. 

Smoothiefy Your Printer

Finally, the printer looked like this, before I disassembled it while moving from the US to UK:

Now, in  London, I’ve started to rebuild it and decided to supersize it:

Don’t ask why I did it; even I don’t know 🙂