I thought I'd share a bit of fun I had last night using my 3DR Simple Delta as a demo unit at the local library: a few months back, the library contacted me and asked if I would stop by to give an 'Introduction to 3D printing' presentation. I thought it was a great idea and it wound up turning out quite well last night. Lots of folks were interested in 3D printing and in particular thought the Delta was quite neat! I also had fun using it as an example of how a 3D printer can 3D print another printer since I'd used my Mendel to print the parts for my 3DR Simple. Bit of a sidetrack from the discussion in this thread, but thought it was worth sharing :) Went so well I've already been asked to give the same presentation at a different library branch!
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If anyone is interested in doing something similar, here are my slides if you'd like content to reuse or start with:
Dropbox ( this is the best version, has tons of embedded animated GIFs but clocks in at 64MB ): [www.dropbox.com]
SlideShare - [www.slideshare.net]
I have two WMV conversions of the videos linked in the presentation that I can make available as well, stripped them out to share the slides though since they balloon the presentation up to 200MB
edit: Almost forgot to mention -- I'd love to be able to run my 3DR simple as a standalone unit when I bring it around for demos, but doing so will require adding a LCD with input. I already have a Printrbot LCD screen, but I don't see it supported in the Marlin firmware unless I missed something. Anyone have pointers for getting a LCD added quickly? Am I better off switching out my controller and using a different LCD/input combo?
If anyone is interested in doing something similar, here are my slides if you'd like content to reuse or start with:
Dropbox ( this is the best version, has tons of embedded animated GIFs but clocks in at 64MB ): [www.dropbox.com]
SlideShare - [www.slideshare.net]
I have two WMV conversions of the videos linked in the presentation that I can make available as well, stripped them out to share the slides though since they balloon the presentation up to 200MB
edit: Almost forgot to mention -- I'd love to be able to run my 3DR simple as a standalone unit when I bring it around for demos, but doing so will require adding a LCD with input. I already have a Printrbot LCD screen, but I don't see it supported in the Marlin firmware unless I missed something. Anyone have pointers for getting a LCD added quickly? Am I better off switching out my controller and using a different LCD/input combo?