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New print: Beco Block!

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I printed up my first Beco Block today – and I can’t wait to print up more.  Nate True was kind enough to download the STL files, center, align, save, and zip all of the various pieces. 1

I’d like to see a new STL file out there that has several different types of these Beco Blocks all on one sheet (similar to Spacexula‘s Mendel production STL files).  I could really see myself cranking out these by the dozens.  In fact…  once I had a sheet designed with a good mix of the various parts I could put it through the MakeNBreak script to churn them out.

  1. Nate, if you’re listening – thank you! [↩]

I failed in convincing someone to buy a MakerBot

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It was going pretty well, actually.

  • MakerBlock: “Yeah, listen, I’ve got no technical skills – it was basically a bolt together system.”
  • Dude: “Seriously?!  So, what, when you’re ready to print you just send it an STL file?”
  • MB: “Um, well, not quite.  I have to take the STL, make sure it’s printable, convert it to GCode, and then convert it into an S3G file, and for maximum resolution/quality save it to an SD chip which I then put in the ‘bot and then…  Hey, where’d you go?”

The fact that it’s not yet a USB plug-n-play system kinda scared him off. 1  I’m confident we’ll get there some day.  And, even if we don’t, I’m still having a hell of a time.

  1. Well, that and I heavily suggested my ‘bot could violate any of the three laws at any moment… [↩]