The joys of living on the bleeding edge- a thread:
On the way to dinner tonight my
@Tesla
literally locked up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY! A message Ive never seen before popped up saying "Vehicle May Not Restart: Service required"
Well thats no good I think...
Ok 3D Printers, if ever there was a moment for us its now. I received no less than 50 texts last night directly from local ER docs BEGGING for as many shields as we can get them. My little printfarm is not nearly enough. WE NEED YOU! So... 1/4
Hey guys... my car is dead in the road just down the way there (I point) I cant get it in neutral we cant push it. Is there any way you can get cones or flares out and help divert traffic before I get creamed? Without hesitation "we got you" and they go to work setting a break...
...no sooner do I have that thought than the car starts beeping madly saying "pull over immediately! Insufficient power" and then everything just locks up. No ability to shift to neutral. No releasing parking break/ emergency override. car is bricked in the middle of a 6 lane hwy
"90 min?! I need something to happen faster than that! Im backing up traffic big time here"
(Car drives by just then)
"Thanks for blocking the road asshole! Where's your Electric Car now?!"
😳
"Sorry sir 90 min is the best we can do. You can call 911 if you need help sooner."😡
My son's 6th grade animal cell science project. Designed in
@tinkercad
, sliced & printed with
@Prusa3D
slicer and MK3S, & assembled w/
@3DGloop
on his own. Particularly tickled by his idea to use the venus box as his cell nucleus. Biased, yes, but too awesome not to share. 😍
Ok... now to call Tesla roadside... wait what? Theres no phone number immediately obvious on the app... i have to schedule through the app?! I do that. Immediately I get a text. Are you safe? Can you tell us whats happening? I proceed to TEXT the story to them. 😳...
Tow truck arrives after about 45 min... thankfully not 90... all in all, not bad I guess. The system works. Off to the service center. Tomorrow we find out how bad it really is. 🤞🏻
"F-This" I think... "This is too urgent for text. Im googling for a Phone number... all the while though the
@Tesla
agent is being responsive and addressing the issue, calling a tow company. I tell them "Its unsafe and urgent... please escalate!" sorry... "90 min ETA"...
There was no time to even get to the shoulder. Im dead in the water in the middle lane of southbound traffic. Thankfully the hazards still work and the door still opens. Dont know for how long though. I roll all the windows down just in case i need back in and its time to bail...
I run over to the shoulder and contemplate my next move. Is this 911 worthy I think? Its dark and if my hazards die My car will get plowed for sure. I look down the road about 300 yards and luckily theres a
@CaltransDist3
crew just coming on shift for the night... i jog over...
"No, CalTrans has me safely blocked please send the tow as soon as you can." ...sigh
... and the waiting begins...
CalTrans foreman walks over. "Can we push it to the shoulder?"
"No. Its locked up. Theres no manual override. Cant shift." I bring him up to speed.
We wait more
"Should we call CHP?" i ask CalTrans foreman?
"I don't have any direct line to them."
"You don't?! I thought you guys work with them all the time?"
"Yeah I don't have their number"
More waiting...
This may be the most work put into an April Fool's joke / non-joke I've ever seen. 😂🤣
Delivery guy just dropped off my spool of
@Prusa3D
@prusament
#SexyHexy
!
Well played
@josefprusa
!
I'm often asked, "How do you deal with all the maintenance that comes 3D print farming?"
The secret- I walk into the print room daily and exclaim:
"EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE REPLACEABLE! DON'T FORGET THAT!!"
Makes em all think twice.
...well, that and we use
@Prusa3D
For anyone curious about how many fully assembled
@Prusa3D
MK3s can fit in the bed of an 8' pickup truck the answer is 2 dozen. My kind of Tetris! 😍
New 3D printing room move in day is finally here!
With permission from
@E3DOnline
I created a commemorative hex tile for anyone to 3D print to honour Sanjay's memory if they wish. Assets also available for anyone who wishes to modify to work w/ their tiles.
Tag
@E3DOnline
&
#SanjayLove
if you print. 💕
Go here... Download the latest files. Start printing RC2 VERSION in PETG EXACTLY AS SPECCED. And pack it up safely to be sent to our team. We are setting up the proper process to disinfect everything we receive but PLEASE be mindful of your health... 2/4
Check out this clever little
#JobOX
setup that
@urbanmaker
sent me. I wonder what one might do with such a thing? 😉
Maybe tomorrow I'll throw some actual production work its way and see how it does. 🤔
#LightsOutAM
#AutomationFTW
This is the "*slightly* Overengineered Olpe Vase" by
@nat_a_cyborg
printed at 167% and IN VASE MODE with
@FilamentRedline
Mystic PLA... it is MASSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE IT 😍
Find it on
@printablescom
here 👉
Most really can’t appreciate how much work Steve
@SeeMeCNC
and Mike
@AtomicFilament
did to make this happen. 48hr turn time on injection molding for free is NOT A THING. Absolutely heroic effort guys! Be sure to show them some love!🙏
@SacHackerLab
@SSVMS
...its frustrating there's not a way to escalate this up the chain and talk to someone at Tesla about what happened & can be done to mitigate repeat failure in the future. Will keep pressing service advisor on that more and update if I make any headway. </UPDATE 9/23>
... fail on Tesla's part in not allowing for a good means of emergency escalation that doesn't involve calling 911. Its weird and unfamiliar but the text system was actually faster in getting a tow dispatched than me waiting on the phone, so in normal / safe conditions...
New experiences every day in 3D Printing. This was a brand new pre-assembled hot-end purchased directly from
@Prusa3D
. Set the temp to 250 while trying to clear out a partial clog and the block MELTED! 😳
Notice how none of the other plastic around it even deformed. Bad alloy?!
Well lookie here... check out this strange new product that just popped up on the
@Prusa3D
shop. Anyone ever seen one of those before? Seems to be some kind of filament holder... hmm. 🤔
A quick peek at the
@Creality3dprint
#CR30
Printmill beltfarm is cranking away at Repkord HQ. Check out the latest vid from
@joeltelling
for a deeper look into how it was done!
👉
<UPDATE 9/23>: Roadside assistance dropped the car off at the local service center without further incident last night. When I said "The system works" I was referring to the bizarre app / text based communication for arranging that. To be clear I think this is still a...
Act as if you're infected, place everything in a bag straight away... Read the blog here:
I will post the address ONCE I HAVE A RECEIVING SYSTEM IN PLACE.... PLEASE START PRINTING NOW! RT share EVERYWHERE, help spread the word 3/4...
The need is beyond anything you can imagine, if you don't believe me just talk to any front line care provider you know... this is meaningful work that will potentially save lives. PLEASE HELP. CC:
@MasksForDocs
This is James. James unloads plastic sheets & makes face shields for local healthcare providers fighting on COVID19 frontlines at 11:15pm on a Saturday night. What did you do with your Sat night? Be a James... join the fight.
#HackTheVirus
@masksfordocs
#PPEShortage
@tnicholsmd
Query: What other businesses out there run a small to midsize
@Prusa3D
farm? I'm putting a list together. Let me know if you know of a biz or would like yours included. Or let me know if you're aware of a similar group that already exists.
Receiving Address:
Repkord @ Hackerlab
4415 GRANITE DR STE 200
OFFICE 211
ROCKLIN, CA 95677-2163
United States
We need RC2 of BOTH band pieces in the model here preferably in PETG (best for disinfecting) But will take any LABELED material
@MasksForDocs
@repkord
Just donated ~2600lbs of PETG resin to
@SeeMeCNC
, they are cutting a mold to make face shield bands by the thousands daily on a injection press. going to kick this in high gear ASAP
Slowly but surely building the supply of face shields for our grossly under supplied healthcare workers... We need donations for materials and 3-D prints still! if you’ve got the means please help the cause.
@masksfordocs
...it appears effective albeit not everyone's preferred mode of communication. Regarding what's actually wrong with the car: All I know at the moment is they're investigating and have a rough eta for in-warranty repair of 9/28. Given the gross safety issue exposed here...
Heres more footage of the
@Creality3dprint
#CR30
wall mounted with a much larger part for those who are still skeptical. 😉
It seems counterintuitive but I promise you gravity doesn't play a factor the way you'd expect.
This is what happens when you break the first rule of 3D Printing people!
1) NEVER LET GO OF THE END OF YOUR FILAMENT SPOOL.
I am a cautionary tale. Learn from my mistake. 🙃
Can we get 5 spools feeding simultaneously from one
#RepBoxTT
? Why yes, yes we can! Thats 10Kgs! A filament routing masterpiece if I do say so myself... and I do. SO much better than slinging spools on the sides of the
@Prusa3D
XL! Now we can fit a lot more of them side by side!
Proud maker dad moment today. I handed my 9yo son the crank handle I broke on my drill press while moving it last year and told him to make me a replacement one... AND HE DID!
@tinkercad
to the rescue! His first practical print! Works like new again! 😊
Ok so I've been teasing this Non-Planar print to show off another use case for the
@E3DOnline
#NippleNozzles
besides belt printing but now its time to reveal the greater purpose. In collaboration with
@mwuethri
we developed a technique to illustrate one of practical values of…
A little "bulldozer" script we run on the
@Prusa3D
print farm for
#RepBox
parts. Vase mode followed by a bed clear and repeat. Simple yet effective.
#AutomationFTW
@quendergeer
@Tesla
To be fair, up until this point its been the best car ive owned from a maintenance perspective. Tesla does a lot of things right. This was a really weird scenario to happen upon though. Not a great surprise.
I don't know if you guys knew this about me but...
I LOVE FRENCH CLEATS!
@Creality3dprint
#CR30
Wall mount kit launching tomorrow morning... along with another BIG surprise.
#hype
😎
#3DWallPrinter
A few of the wall mounted
#CR30
#TypeR
3D Printmills I've got at home doin their thing spitting out parts for the upcoming RepBox light kit...
... And yes the parts are made from the
@Proto_pasta
CF-PETG Im totally in love with.
#PartFuel
Wait... wut?! 🤯
This is some serious James Bond shit...
...also a living Nintendo museum on a wall.
@apyrodesign
you see this yet?
And to think, I was excited I made hash browns over the weekend. (kicks rocks)
The more I work with it the more I’m impressed with the elegance and simplicity of the
@Prusa3D
design. They cut really quick and clean too. Time to start getting them into the right hands!
@MasksForDocs
Look what
@E3DOnline
made just for me! 😍
...okay...okay also just for all my other belt printing brethren out there. 😜
Yes, they're real, and YES, they're available for all SOON™️
#Revo
#NippleNozzles
#CR30
So long San Francisco. Thanks for the hospitality. First annual
@OpenSauceLive
was an overwhelming success!
Already pumped for next year. Congrats to
@WilliamOsman
and team as well as all the attendees, creators, and sponsors that made it so unbelievably rad.
Introducing the Bento: a modular, stackable organizer for RepBox TT or standalone use. Declutter your space with this versatile box! 🎉
Download & 3D print it for FREE: .
Prefer laser-cut? 🚀
#BentoOrganizer
#RepBoxTT
#3DPrinting
Just punched myself...
really hard...
in the head...
with a 3D print...
& now I'm bleeding my own blood.
Not particularly proud of it but it had to be done in the name of science. As it turns out there are limits to the
#fullpooch
. More soon, I think its time to call it a night
I turned my old
@prusament
spool into a mailing tube to ship out some
@SliceEngineer
and
@powerbelt3d
goodies! Free 3D printable parametric tube caps on our
@printablescom
page.
Only 12g of filament and about 20 min of print time!
Make your own here
👇
Well, I finally got fed up with having too many filament samples and no good way to spool them so I added this fancy-schmancy feature to the
#RepWinder
system originally developed as a companion for
@prusa3D
#MMU2
. STLs and BOM here:
@repboxofficial
RepBox 2 is finally here! TLDR: Higher capacity, 5 full rewinders for MMU2, Mosaic Palette 2 direct feed mode, vastly improved sealing, configurable exit ports top & bottom, optional dehumidifier kit, faster assembly, makes you 17% more attractive.