Tutorial - Printing from Minecraft with Mineways

Mineways.com has been getting a lot of well deserved attention lately. In short it's an excellent Minecraft export tool, tailored towards Shapeways printing. While us DIY enthusiasts can't do full colour prints (yet), Mineways is still an excellent tool for exporting models for home 3D printing, and it's quite user friendly compared to certain other attempts.

Here's a few videos where I show my first attempt to do a large print of a landscape, and then a smaller print. If you have some experience with WorldEdit and 3D printing, it should be pretty straight forward to follow.

This post is a detailed tutorial on how to use Mineways to export printable stl files for a RepRap or derivative machines. The details are from a large-ish landscape model, but the principle is the same for all types of exports.

PLA Review - Supply3DPLA Autumn 2011 batch

A bit flimsy, but overall good spools.

My Prusa Mendel is really proving itself, and have worked reliable for quite some time now. Having a reliable printer means it eats filament like a hungry hippo, and it was time to stock up. Since I have previous good experience with Supply3DPLA, I wanted to try the colours in the new PLA batch they got in this autumn (was it october/november?).

This post is rather long, so I'll try a jump-cut...

#RepRap Adventures #12 - Still "extruding"

*Insert joke*

Poop jokes? Always funny!

The joke came to life during a discussion in #reprap at freenode IRC, with a special thanks to digiFAB.
<digiFAB> Nudel: Sounds like it could be a good comic strip

#RepRap Adventures #11 - We beat you to what?

Click if you like pixels in large quantity.

A "I was thinking of making a printable makerbot, but I see you guys beat me to it"-line, has been heard from a google engineer. True story! [Who cares about citations?]

#RepRap Adventures #10 - Let me tell you one thing!

1200x400 resolution available for clickers

The rip-off line has actually been heard, true story! [citation needed]

RepRap-cat wants YOU to build a RepRap

I was just playing around in inkscape today, and came up with these. Click for 1920x1200 resolution.

In case you don't understand any of this, check out this video. It won't explain it though.

#RepRap Adventures #09 - Doing it properly

Click to view larger pixels.

Based on a true story!

With this, my backlog is used up, so #RepRap Adventures will now be posted whenever I draw one.

Feel free to comment with your ideas for how to continue this story. :-)