[TriLUG] TriLUG April 14th - Building A 3D Printer the Hard Way

[Jack Hill via TriLUG]

The video is now posted: 
https://archive.org/details/trilug-2016-04-14_3D-printer

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:

> Don't forget you have a great TriLUG talk lined up Thursday of this week!
>
> http://trilug.org/node/220
>
> Topic: Building A 3D Printer the Hard Way
> Presenter: Clinton Ebadi
> When: Thursday, 14 April 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
> Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
> Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III (visitor spaces are
> unrestricted after 5pm)
> Map: OpenStreetMap
>
> Abstract:
>
> Desktop 3D printing has become fairly popular in the last few years,
> and affordable printers are flooding the market. But why buy a
> difficult to hack black box when you could spend weeks
> sourcing/printing parts, crimping a a bunch of wires, and calibrating a
> fully open design from the RepRap project?
>
> Aside from the freedom that comes from building your own libre hardware
> printer, building your own has many advantages that make the effort
> worth it. Want dual extrusion? Triple, quadruple extrusion even? Or how
> about pushing the limits by printing clay or icing? Perhaps you'd like
> a tiny but super fast printer, one you could fold up and fit into a
> backpack, or a printer with a meter of build height. With a libre
> hardware printer, you can do all of this -- and far more affordably
> than purchasing or modifying a closed printer platform.
>
> This talk will cover the advantages (and disadvantages) of building a
> libre hardware printer with a focus on the popular RepRap Prusa i3
> family. Finding the community, selecting one of dozens of designs,
> sourcing components, and building a printer from scratch can be a
> harrowing experience -- this talk should provide some orientation in
> the chaos and make the process easier.
>
> The talk will also cover using a 3D printer with 100% Free Software on
> GNU/Linux, from designing models (including the printer itself!) to the
> microcontroller running the printer.
>
>
> Bio:
>
> Clinton Ebadi is a kilt-wearing, cat-loving, Free Software
> enthusiast. He's spent most of the last decade volunteering for the
> Internet Hosting Cooperative and learning way more than anyone should
> know about OpenAFS. After picking up an Arduino last year to make a few
> LED strips blink, he found himself borrowing a friend's 3D printer a
> few months later, and ended up hooked on hardware hacking.
>
>
> Jeremy Davis
> TriLUG PR
>
>
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