https://starship-factory.ch/en/categories/3d-printing/Recent content in Starship Factoryhttps://starship-factory.ch/en/2022/03/16/3d-printing-workshop-2022/Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100Are you interested in 3D printing? Would you like to try it yourself? With this introduction to slicing and printing you will learn how to work with our 3D printers. The workshop takes place on Tuesday, 12 April, every hour from 18:00 to 21:00. Recommended age: from 14 years Prior knowledge needed: none. Familiarity with 3D model formats is an advantage.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2021/10/15/wash-and-cure/Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200In August we acquired an Anycubic Photon Mono X resin printer to extend our possibilities in 3D printing. To go with this printer there is now also a Wash and Cure 2.0 unit. It makes washing the printed parts considerably easier. Soft and sticky surfaces are a thing of the past.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2021/08/01/new-possibilities-with-high-resolution-resin-printing/Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +02003D printing has always been a big topic at Starship Factory. Until now, though, you had to make do with TLD printing. That changed a few days ago: from now on an Anycubic Photon Mono X MSLA resin printer is available to everyone interested. The Mono X offers a comparatively large print volume of 192 mm (L) * 120 mm (W) * 250 mm (H) at an extremely high resolution of 0.05 mm horizontally (4K display) and up to 0.01 mm vertically. It prints with UV-light-sensitive acrylic resin.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2021/05/27/introduction-to-3d-printing-2/Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200Round two: on 2 July from 20:00, Claudius and Bernd are offering our uncomplicated and entirely informal introduction to 3D printing at Starship Factory once again. This is an event by laypeople for laypeople. After a short introduction to the principles of TLD (“thin layer deposition”) 3D printing and the typical workflows, we will explore Starship Factory’s machines together. Depending on how we feel, we will start a series of test prints, investigate how the machines work, or print first models.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2021/05/22/addition-to-the-3d-printing-family/Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200We have a new arrival! For everyone who likes it big, an Anycubic Chiron 3D printer is available at Starship Factory with immediate effect. It works by the TLD process and provides a print volume of up to 400 mm x 400 mm x 450 mm (W x D x H).https://starship-factory.ch/en/2021/01/06/introduction-to-3d-printing/Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100+++ Date changed +++ Date changed +++ Date changed +++ Unfortunately Starship Factory remains closed to the public because of the coronavirus ordinance in force. We therefore have to postpone our introduction to 3D printing. It is now expected to take place on Friday, 16 April during our regular opening hours from 20:00. This is an event by laypeople for laypeople. After a short introduction to the principles of TLD (“thin layer deposition”) 3D printing and the typical workflows, we will explore Starship Factory’s machines together. Depending on how we feel, we will start a series of test prints, investigate how the machines work, or print first models. After this introduction you will normally be qualified to use Starship Factory’s 3D printers on your own. After that there are no limits to your creativity.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2020/11/15/new-3d-printing-corner/Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100After things had always been a little cramped in the previous 3D printing corner, Claudius took the initiative and secured us a few metres of high-quality metal shelving. We have now put it up and moved the printers over, for the most part. That finally gives us room for relaxed working, and for expansion too. The new printer provided by Ben, for instance, has found its home there. As a side effect we were also able to finally store the film rolls for the plotter, and the plotter itself, properly.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2020/06/20/build-your-own-digital-clock/Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200We are building a digital clock to our own taste. The workshop offers an interesting mix of soldering, 3D printing and laser cutting. The individual steps can be carried out in any order. On the day of the workshop we will split into 3 groups for this. The workshop mainly serves as a way into the project. Finishing it then happens at your leisure during Starship Factory’s opening hours (see opening hours).https://starship-factory.ch/en/2014/09/04/our-own-3d-printers-at-last/Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0200We would like to thank the E.E. Zunft zu Hausgenossen for their generous donation of CHF 10,000 towards our 3D printers. With the money we bought 6 3D printers of our own for our FabLab, plus material, which our members and visitors make busy use of to be creative or to produce prototypes, for example. From the income this generates we can afford repairs to the 3D printers, buy more material and perhaps later invest in other interesting equipment too.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2014/07/18/precision-screwdriver-set-from-bruetsch-rueegger/Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0200Starship Factory has received two watchmaker’s screwdriver sets from Brütsch/Rüegger Werkzeuge AG. Since we work a lot with hardware in the embedded field, they are already seeing plenty of use.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2014/06/15/new-equipment-kinect-for-3d-scanning/Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0200On Friday we were given an Xbox Kinect by one of our members. That finally gives us the equipment to test Reconstruct Me QT as 3D scanning software. So hopefully we will soon be able to do 3D scans! Documentation on the Kinect wiki page has already been started. If our plan works out, there will soon be a guide there on how to make 3D scans with a Kinect!https://starship-factory.ch/en/2014/02/04/pillars-as-support-structures-in-3d-printing/Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0100In 3D printing, objects are usually created by laying several layers of plastic on top of one another, as with a hot glue gun. That works excellently for objects with a cube- or pyramid-like shape, but when the object has more than just overhangs (bridges between sub-objects and so on), it can become necessary to build in support structures. These are often generated automatically by 3D slicer programs such as Cura or slic3r. They are less pronounced plastic structures which cannot take much pressure (unlike the structures belonging to the object itself), but offer enough purchase for the printer’s plastic threads to hold on to, making the object printable.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2014/01/05/replacing-the-silicone-layer-on-the-b9creator/Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0100When 3D printing with the B9Creator, UV resin is cured layer by layer with the help of a projector and so turned into a shape, which is lifted out of the remaining still-liquid resin after the print. So that the resin does not bond with the acrylic glass print tray (called the vat in the manuals) as it cures, a coating of silicone (PDMS) is used. Unfortunately this breaks down after a few prints and therefore has to be renewed regularly.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2013/12/12/3d-printing-with-wood-filament/Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0100If you like wooden sculptures but are not much good at carving, there are now alternatives. Instead of working sculptures out of a block of wood with a knife, we now also have filament for the 3D printer that contains wood and therefore gives a very attractive, woody look. That turns carving work into modelling work; the 3D printer does the rest.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2013/10/24/multi-colored-full-body-iphone4-case/Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200Fresh from the Ultimaker: a multi coloured full body iPhone4 case from Thingiverse. Because the different colours have different material properties, the black-and-white part unfortunately turned out a little unstable. The GCode file’s temperatures were tuned for the main colour, turquoise.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2013/10/13/update-on-the-elna-disc-project/Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200Having understood the principle of the simple Elna discs, we made a disc with a simple wave pattern. The disc has a minimum on one side and a maximum on the other. Over the course of the 18 stitches — at stitch width 4 — the machine therefore uses the maximum stitch width in full during one revolution.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2013/10/12/printing-starships-logo-design-in-3d/Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200Some of our logo drafts get modelled in 3D, printed out and painted without further ado.https://starship-factory.ch/en/2013/10/09/making-elna-supermatic-pattern-discs-yourself/Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200In one of our projects we are trying to make discs for ELNA sewing machines ourselves on the 3D printer. To do that we first have to understand how the discs work, and be able to reduce them to a model ourselves. This article explains the current progress in analysing and making the Elna discs. The current state can always be found in our wiki.