It turns out that, just as with Una, the key to successful printing is the print height. I've got quite good at consistent printing with Una my Ultimaker, but I remember how much fiddling it took to get to where I am now. ![]() All I got was a little lump of goo on the bottom of the vat. Oh well. So I carefully filled the vat with resin, rubbed the build plate with some sandpaper to make it nice and rough so that the print would adhere to it, lowered the plate into the resin and set it off. There are a few buttons on the machine and some lights to tell you what it is doing. You set up prints on your PC via a web interface that works really well. The iBox is powered by a Raspberry Pi and uses a WiFi adapter to connect to your network. As long as something turns up at the end. I'm still looking at you Agent watch. Lots of people get very upset when these projects have delays, but I'm happy to give them time to get it right. The device was a bit late arriving, but I don't mind too much about that. So I backed it a while ago (I think it was November) and then waited. The iBox project promised a light powered high resolution printer for less than 300 dollars and was too tempting to pass up. I've only had one Kickstarter project come seriously unstuck - I'm looking at you Agent watch. ![]() I've had pretty good success with Kickstarter. Thanks to a combination of poor time management on my part and digging up an absolutely crucial road at rush our on the part of Hull Council I wasn't able to get to the MeetUp at C4DI tonight. But when I did get home I thought I'd fire up the iBox nano printer that arrived last week. ![]() Update: Please read the comments section of this post for the latest on this device.
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