I'm late to pubski. 3D Printers My delta 3d printer project stalled out in November. I've printed everything I need to finish it, but I haven't bought the "vitamins"; i.e. all the fasteners and such. I liked designing the bits that I did, but the idea of building wasn't so exciting. Today, I started designing a new printer based on a really old cable layout. My goal is to use as little fasteners as possible without compromising quality. We will see how I do. My bet is that most printers are vastly overbuilt in the name of precision that won't really be visible anyways after the sloppy process of spitting out molten plastic. Work My old boss was actively trying to fire me. Well, not just me but all of my family that worked there. He wasn't competent enough to actually pull it off, but the effort was there. The best he managed was an offence I could have gone to the Department of Labor for and gotten him shitcanned, and teaching me that management can't produce a written copy of the attendance policy. My new boss? He keeps telling me what a good job I'm doing. He's calm. He's respectful. It is fucking weird. I'm so use to being in combat with management. It's weird.
Printer progress. Design is a little weird since I'm working around the aluminum extrusion I'd already bought. Smooth rods would make more sense. Should work though. Pink bits still need work to mount the motors, which will probably need to be inverted. I also need to throw together the bushings. Green bits are ready for test printing. Screw count for the x/y bits seen here should be a maximum of 14: 3x per motor to mount the drive spools from Richrap's sli3dr printer linked above, and 4x per motor to attach to the frame. The dollo printer bits I'm using as a library have worked well in the small test pieces I've made.