So if you haven’t noticed, since I started at MultiCAM and moved to my new apartment I haven’t been spending much time at the makerspace. I am kind of burned out putting out non-literal fires in 3D fab.
We need volunteers for 3D fab stuff!
The RFID locking cabinet is wired up with a Pi with piface digital I/O sheild relays, car door actuator locks, and an RFID reader. I have tried to have several people work on the programming side of it but it hasn’t been finished. The programmers I’ve asked (there’s several working on RFID interlock stuff of their own) are also too busy to finish.
The filastruder and the filawinder in the draw under the form labs printer is partially built but had some issues and it really needs to get built. It was $500+ kit and I found the documentation lacking so it needs someone to look into it and see how to get it running. We have 10lbs. of virgin ABS pellets and it would be awesome to learn how to make our own filament.
The Octoprint servers on the Polyprinters, need remote admin so we can push updates and fix issues. Also UTA fab lab has source code for Octoprint that I’d like us to adopt since it lets users log in with their ID’s, and prints receipts with filament costs. GitHub - UTA-FabLab/OctoPuppet I would like someone with linux/pi/programming skills to work on this. We can allow you to use a pi for testing and work with @StanSimmons on the admin side of things.
Sinterit SLS machine - We got a very nice and expensive selective laser sintering printer donated to the space but I nor others have had time to read and learn how to use it and set it up. I know it can produce really detailed models that don’t require support material and are made of nylon so it’s very strong. It’s a powder based consumable but I have no clue what it’ll cost to run and maintain the machine. We need someone to take charge and get it setup and teach classes on it.
I’m willing to put a cash bounty on some of these projects, I would also love to have documentation on what you did because we as a makerspace have a lot of undocumented projects that die when the previous person burns out and leaves.
Form 2 and Ninjaflex trained (not sure exact group names). It’s to protect our expensive resin and filaments that people could use without being trained and screw up the printers. I am also using this as a model for other RFID locking cabinets around the space (since we don’t seem to have many working RFID interlocking cabinets in use yet)
@mreynolds I’d really appreciate it, we’re coming up on a year and I was kind of excited for the idea of recycling filament/making my own colors and it’s a cool process.
@benemorius has the last code on the Pi currently but has issues interfacing with the USB RFID reader, @denzuko originally wrote a python program but the SD card got corrupt and I lost his code and that needed a little bit of work, @Bill said something about it since he’s working on other stuff, @Gus_Reiter helped me originally with my code but my code didn’t work on start up, and @Perpetual made an awesome API for our AD lookups that I based it off of. @StanSimmons has probably the most knowledge of current RFID interlock stuff going on.
I’m very interested in SLS, and am willing to take a whack at getting the printer running. I can help figure out the cost, and put together a training class for it.
I very much appreciate it. It’s all on the rolling cart now, we might need more space for it since it comes with a powder removal box (looks like a sand blaster). we can only reuse half the powder and the optics have to be kept clean. Let me or @axeonos know what you need!
Filawinder got assembled tonight. The motor doesn’t want to work though, I ran some power through it (using bench power in electronics) and it still doesn’t move. Needs a more expert electrician to diagnose why it’s not working.
Also couldn’t get the motor going on the filastruder although I noticed loose wiring. I will take a better look soon.
@benemorius has been working on it and said it’s working, we just need to make sure we have the AD groups set and I need a electromechanical failsafe which will probably be a jack I can manually pop the actuators open with that’s locked.
