Comments on: Fab@home http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/ Fresh hacks every day Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shawnna Aderhold http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-121960 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:57:06 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-121960 Great information thanks for getting this out there for people like me to read.

]]> By: adamcpennington http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23715 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:43:33 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23715 I wish I had a friend with a fab machine to print out one for me. I’m into robotics. Parts are hard to come by without the $. There is a huge future for this product. I can think of a few stupid things I use everyday that I could make with this. A comb, led pencil, anything plastic really. The only hard part is writing out the piece in CAD. Hell I guess thats what torrent is for. :) < href="adamcpennington.googlepages.com">BC Computer Repair Fontana

]]> By: Matt http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23714 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:56:27 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23714 I purchased one of these for school with the intent of reverse engineering parts of it to design a bigger machine with multiple deposition tools.It seems to be a very cool machine with a lot of potential uses. Replacing the deposition tool with a dremel sounds good in theory, but it won’t work on this machine because of the lateral forces on the cutter. I’ve built three different cnc mills and this is always a big issue. Now replacing the deposition tool with a laser of some kind might be interesting.

]]> By: Ryan http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23713 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:47:38 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23713 The “Fabber” shown CAN print with a LOT of different materials, which is one of the goals of the project; to expand construction materials. If you look at the fab@home site, you’ll see one person put a heating element on the deposition tool and filled it with chocolate, then printed their own custom chocolate candy. I have a design I thought up for a remoted hopper for airsoft BBs as the construction material, pressurized heated interchangeable deposition cylinder with servo valved nozzle. This would allow for the construction of everyday things made of (bright green) plastic. Ever wish you this part that fit right in here and did this, now you can print it!

]]> By: Terminus Est http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23712 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:22:04 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23712 I’ve been watching this for a while. Kinda cool. But just kinda. So far, all I see is a bunch of silicon rubber objects of limited use and crude design, with part of the design limitation making ANY object made have the cross-section of a log cabin wall. Co-centric rings of silicon calk.

If there is a way to print an object without the ring structure, and out of something other than silicon calk then this could be cool(er).

]]> By: d.j.sassoon-gubbay http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23711 Fri, 18 May 2007 07:10:44 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23711 Thank you for letting me ” in”. I will be interested to participate with all of you and perhaps be able to contribute.

]]> By: d.j.sassoon-gubbay http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23710 Fri, 18 May 2007 07:10:41 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23710 Thank you for letting me ” in”. I will be interested to participate with all of you and perhaps be able to contribute.

]]> By: ed3 http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23709 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:57:26 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23709 Alternately, replace the deposition tool with a Dremel, and you have a milling machine…

]]> By: bobdole http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23708 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:04:17 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23708 correct link for turkey baster bulb:

http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Gallery#Silicone_Squeeze_Bulb

kthx

]]> By: nickjohnson http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23707 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:51:56 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23707 You might also try http://www.emachineshop.com for ordering a custom frame

]]> By: yo ur being watch but d.c http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23706 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:14:20 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23706 ur being watch really got o here

http://visualroute.visualware.com/

and type in ur url

watch it

]]> By: Arochone http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23705 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:41:27 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23705 If I recall my jr high woodshop classes correctly (not that long ago, I’m still in high school), acryllic is pretty easy to work with. All you need is some good heater. Place it over the heat for a few seconds and bend. The one we used pretty much had this long thin metal bar that got really hot, and then you just set it an inch or two above that for a bit and you’d be good. I’m pretty sure that was acryllic….

]]> By: monster http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23704 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:39:22 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23704 try making a mold out of plaster and pouring liquid acrylic into the mold. you cn make a really thin liquid acrylic with scrap acrylic and acetone. i use it as a glue because the acetone evaporates and the acrylic solidifies.

i’m not an expert, and don’t destroy anything because this might not work, but give it a go if you’d like. just keep the goop thin, use a lot of acetone

]]> By: little_timmy http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23703 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:00:57 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23703 someone needs to publish info on acrylic molding, and manufacturing.

Everyone I know has tried to do search engine “hacking” to try and get info on it with no luck.

I’d like to be the only person in the world with a translucent laptop case for my old Thinkpad. I have the design software just not the hardware, and knowledge.

Pretty rounded cases would also be cool instead of tasteless slabs bolted, or glued together.

]]> By: jonored http://hackaday.com/2006/12/08/fabhome/comment-page-1/#comment-23702 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:56:57 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2006/12/08/fabhome/#comment-23702 I totally get to build one of these for credit at school over winter break – it makes me happy :)

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