Comments on: Longboard Lighting Case: Final Edition

By: Longboard Electronics Case: Now With Mouse Ears « The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:07:25 +0000

[...] Our Larval Engineer may have a commission to fit her Speed-Sensing Ground Effect Lighting controller to another longboard. To that end, the case now sports mouse ears to spread the force from the cooling ABS over more of the Kapton tape, in the hope the plastic won’t pull the tape off the aluminum build platform: [...]

By: Longboard Speed-Sensing Ground Effect Lighting « The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:32:41 +0000

[...] view of the 3D printed case shows the power switch and the Hall effect sensor cable snaking out of the truck just below the [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:38:08 +0000

She's on her way to school; all I have left is her portrait. They're such long leadtime items that it's too late to spin up another...

By: madbodger

madbodger — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:28:36 +0000

Are you ever going to post the OpenSCAD code for larval engineers? I could use another pair of hands around here!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:20:09 +0000

Time to start printing in PLA?

I thought about that, but I’ve decided that the printer is what the printer is. Trying to improve it really isn’t worth the effort: incremental fixes won’t buy very much at all.

I should either buy or build a printer that works better, but that’s low on the list right now. It works well enough for what I want to do…

By: Jetguy

Jetguy — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:12:44 +0000

Time to start printing in PLA? Be sure to make the mod to that stainless tube on the MK6 to increase the thermal resistance and keep the filament cool. Maybe add a 40mm fan for good measure. PLA seems to get very soft as low as 120-130C. Once it get’s soft, it expands like a wedge in the PTFE tube.