Oooops! Missed a day. Well i did post photos and timelapse videos to tumblr so that counts in my book. Anyhow yesterday everything went wrong. Today the printrbot was *still* bedeviled by gremlins and refuses to print anything like it ought to. I did have some success on the Rep2 and Rep2X – but the Rep1 is also still being a total PITA.
Progress was made on the Livestreaming front – we streamed about 4 hours of quality video mostly of me trying to align said camera in such a fashion folks might see what was going on. But i did get some viewers. I’ll try to do better next time. If you are interested in watching what’s going on here the link to the feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/3d-printing-at-aic (apparently Ustream let’s you save a url as 3D, but doesn’t insists you change it to ThreeD in the header – i’m sure they have a perfectly good reason for this, not.)
We met with some folks from a Scout Troop down in sunny Carbondale, IL home of my alma matter Southern Illinois University, Saluki Pride! This was their first experience with 3D printing and such, i demoed the Digitizer for them, and gave them my copy of the current Make Magazine, which they had not seen either. Hopefully i’m going to head down there and do a 3D printing demo in C’dale sometime soon.
Some progress is being made – with “Folium” (working title) the second book, printed out one of the recent scans – “Relief Plaque Depicting a Queen or Goddess,” which came out really really nicely as the photo above testifies. Looking fwd to getting this new book a bit further down the road. Photoshoot tomorrow in the am, and then demos in the afternoon and all day Sat – so it;s going to be Monday before anything serious get’s done i think.