Does anyone have a Doodle3D Wifi Box or use anything like it?
“The Doodle3D WiFi Box is a WiFi device connecting your iPad/iPhone/laptop or other devices to your 3D printer. Simply connect the 3D printer to the USB port of the Doodle3D WiFi-Box, connect to the WiFi network and start sketching and printing in 3D.”
Why would you want to? As far as I know, you still need a computer to slice your image and create the gcode.
The Doodle3D is really meant for someone to create a print that doesn’t require any knowledge of design software. (Example: Bocusini 3D food printer where you draw on the Doodle3D what you want to print and hit send and it prints the food in the shape you just drew) .
I am working on a 6 week project this summer for a 3D printer targeted toward a segment of the population who wouldn’t traditionally be interested in 3D printing and I’m looking for something simple like Doodle3D.
Have you ever used a 3d printer? The technology hasn’t progressed to the level of draw and print yet. Usually 3d printing takes a little tinkering to get it to come out right. Not trying to knock what you are doing, just wondering because I recently bought a 3d printer and was under the impression that it was point and click/print, and have been rudely awakened to the complexity of 3d printing.
No worries about knocking what I am doing. I don’t mind a good conversation! I, too, have a hard time believing in something like the Doodle3D which is why I am asking. If I can be convinced that it might work then I will order it and try it out; right now I can only find places to order it internationally and I’m not yet convinced that I’ll get my money’s worth.
I do have a Printrbot Metal Plus (with a heated bed) and I use the Cura software. And I depend on a lot of help from people (especially Mitch!) to give me advice. I am also backing the Boscuni Food Printer (which, at this time, was demonstrated with the Doodle3D).
Sounds like you too were sold by the Printrbot hype about 3D printing! 
I thought I was buying and off the shelf printing solution, then spent the next three months learning, tweaking, and REPAIRING…
No personal experience, but if it works even in limited situations, I think it would make a great demonstration for the September celebrations…
Hehehe…what a coincidence, I TOO have a Printrbot Simple Metal with heated bed! Welcome to the neighborhood!
I am getting some really good prints off mine now. A friend of mine and I have been tweaking on it and think we have it dialed in pretty good now.
If you are interested, I could send you our INI file. We have been using PLA exclusively. My Kapton tape got ripped the first week I had the printer and that is when I discovered that using blue painter’s tape worked better. I bought some new Kaptop tape out of Canada and it took a month and a half to come in, and when it did, I just put it on the shelf as I like the painter’s tape much more than the Kapton.
If anyone is interested in some Kapton this was the cheapest place I found it:
http://www.eckertech.com/kapton-tape-8-x-10-sheet/
They do take a while to come in from Canada though…If you need one fast, I can loan you one of mine and you can give me one back when yours come in.
Back to the Printrbot, I noticed that my hot end would creep down from the extractor mount about a millimeter or so once in a while and screw up prints and my bed. So now I keep an eye on it and make sure it is flush with the extruder holder. I print everything with a brim now and set the flow to 94%. I am using Toner Plastics brand of PLA from MicroCenter in Richardson, $18.99 a Kg. It seems to do fine.
We should start a Printrbot Simple Metal group so we can share experiences…I know there are a couple others out there that have one too.