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Printing With Steel on the Printrbot Simple
One of the most popular pages on this blog is Calibrating the Printrbot Simple. To be honest I haven’t been using my Simple much lately, what with the hullabaloo surrounding my Barbie-Compatible 3D...
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Squelching Squigs
Squigs. Sometimes we get them when 3D printing with extruded filament. Usually they’re the result of too steep an overhang in a model; there’s not enough shelf on layer X for the printer to lay down...
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Zheng’s Garden Guardian
Necessity! Mother of invention and all that. One could, I suppose, just jam a wooden stake into the ground to prevent a garden hose from raking over one’s flowerbeds, but that would lack panache and,...
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Appleton Maker Fest
Appleton, Wisconsin is the nicest little city you’ve never heard of. Along with low crime rates and a thriving local music scene, it’s home to Lawrence University, a Harry Houdini museum with an...
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One Week to Go until Kickstarter #2
Hello, all, and Happy New Year! Mistake not the quietude in this tiny corner of 3D printing blogistan for a lack of activity. We’ve been hard at work applying the jeweler’s rouge to Zheng3 Kickstarter...
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It’s a hoot! A 3D-Printed Superb_owl
Folks really seemed to enjoy last week’s Settlers of Catan Robber, and what with the Super Bowl coming up and my having a 3D model of a football helmet just sitting around on Ye Olde Harde Drive, I’d...
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The Joy Of Rex
TL;DR summary: Lowpoly design is a reflection of modern artists’ nostalgia for 90s video games. Also, get off my lawn. Also also, download Rex’s pram here. Months ago I designed Robber Rex as a...
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2015 Seej Starter Set Released!
The duergar have toiled in The Forge for months, taking only the briefest breaks for food and drink, hammering out new prototypes daily in preparation for this morning. Exhausted, exhilarated, they...
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The Forge 2.0
Too long has it been since the last post here at the blog. Well, there was yesterday’s short fiction about Milton, but that was just an amuse-bouche while I got the last of the unruly ducks in a row...
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Complicated Selections in Maya
Sometimes geometry comes into Maya with difficult tessellation; the original designer might have never intended the model to be edited in the first place, or, more likely, was a lunatic. Take, for...
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I gots new models on Etsy, yo
Zheng Labs just launched our latest Kickstarter! Watch the video below, and back the project here! Kickstarter preparations continue at their frenetic ground-pounding pace here at Zheng Labs. The 3D...
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You’ve Got Fail!
TLDR; I released suspect geometry into the wild. Also 3dprinting.fail is now a thing. Despite rumors to the contrary, it’s not all mimosas and backrubs here at Zheng Labs. There are times, thankfully...
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Arduino Audio with the WTV020SD-16P
There are plenty of ways to play sound on an Arduino– at the most basic you might burp out some bleeps and bloops with the tone() command, or perhaps drop some coin at Adafruit and get yourself a...
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Yaaar! Here there be décolletage.
So, to recap for those among you who don’t breathlessly follow the twists and turns here at the blog, I’ve been working feverishly on finishing parts of pirate costumes for myself and for the lovely...
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