3D Fabrication Committee Meeting - Sunday, January 31st at 10:00 PM

[LisaSelk]

Mitch and I finally have a date and time for the upcoming 3D Fab meeting ~ YAY!

Come out on Sunday, January 31st from 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM to discuss 3D Fab happenings and upcoming changes. We will be meeting in the Purple Classroom.

It’s on the Events calendar; and, was posted in the 3D Fab Google Hangout, on the bulletin board & at the entrance to the 3D Fab Room last night. See y’all at the meeting!

[LisaSelk]

This was a pretty informal meeting; and, as such, no official minutes were taken.

Here are some links to some related posts that cover most of what was discussed:

Usage report for Poly Printers?

This was actually discussed at Sundays 3d fab meeting. I’m doing some research on how octoprint can be configured to send logs, probably to a syslog server where they can be downloaded and then summarized. I’m working on research and hopefully proof of concept at home, and would then need to work with Lisa and infrastructure to impliment. It looks like it may be able to get file upload times, print start times, and print end times. Then anything else would have to be post analysis.

Usage report for Poly Printers?

I do not think anyone took minutes. Much of the discussion was about a recent increase in clogged nozzles and what may be causing it. 3D Fab will be running an experiment in March to try to figure out whether the problem stems from a couple of likely suspects, black filament and people bringing their own filament. There was some discussion about modifying the pricing structure, but “Walter” gave us numbers that 3D Fab was the most fiscally inexpensive committee in the space, which is great ne…

Usage report for Poly Printers?

Matt, as far as filters for the filament goes… It has been suggested that over time the foam (or whatever material may end up being used), will likely flake off and potentially cause more problems than it would be trying to prevent by passing the foam/material through to the extruder… As far as meeting notes… It was a pretty informal meeting; and, as Bill mentioned, we didn’t take any official notes… However, John G did put some notes together after the meeting of the information he recalled fr…

Usage report for Poly Printers?

Just to be clear, since the copy/paste from John’s notes lost their formatting… The section below is strictly about Midnight (the PrintrBot) and Mendy (the Mendel90)… The PrintrBot and Mendel90 are both available to use exotic & experimental filament, as well as PLA (all of which is NOT allowed on the PolyPrinters available for use by members at Dallas Makerspace).

Usage report for Poly Printers?

This was absolutely the best attended 3D Fab Meeting EVER! Over a dozen members actively participated (including “Walter” (aka Allen)! To those of you who were able to take the time to attend & participate ~ THANKS Y’ALL!!!

…and, THANKS AGAIN!!!