Pen plotter

Today I got my 3D printer to work as a 2D printer! Well not really a printer, but a pen plotter. I printed out a pen holder that attached to my printing head from Thingiverse, which can be found here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29228 . I then used a python script called cad.py in order to turn an image into GCODE that my printer could understand. More info on the script and how to get it to work can be found here: http://capolight.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/converting_images_to_gcode/ The next step is to attach swivel knife in order to use my printer as a die-cutter! Here are the results of my experiment:

New Business Cards!

Today i received 2 boxes with business cards for my company that i designed myself they turned out really nice! We are also going to put a small printed logo on the card so people can have a sample of our prints.

Topographical overlay painted!

Just finished painting the topographical overlay I have been working on. It was painted to match satellite images.

Miniature

Here is a miniature I printed out and painted for fun. It was quite tough to paint as it was about an inch tall.

Blending real objects with 3D prints

This is a really cool idea and I would really like to try something like this!



A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints from Greg Petchkovsky on Vimeo.

I have also been working on painting the topographical layout that i posted earlier and it looks amazing! I will post pictures soon!