Being a special day for me, my loved one bought me a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic. The first print was a calabration cube. The second print, as show in the first photo, is a spool that will feed the ABS plastic thread into the heated extruder. The shown part is three pieces snapped together. The second photo shows the completed item. ReplicatorG v25 can be seen on the screen, which is producing gcode to control the stepper motor. The original purpose for the 3D printer is to manafacture parts needed to make an Open Telecine, which is scheduled to convert 60 spools of 8mm film!
This part was created by using only open source hardware and software: Ubuntu (similar to Microsoft Windows and MacOS), gimp (similar to Adobe Photoshop), ReplicatorG, and MakerBot.
Awesome! I cannot wait to see the open source windmills.
ReplyDeleteWow! This post reads like science fiction. What are you going do with this? Hummm. Open source is the new revolution. Nice stuff.
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