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by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Sun-04-Dec

Printer is done! THe designs will be uploaded in about a week or two, followed by a Wiki page with all the info you need.

I ended up going against modifying existing designs except for the effector, extruder, and joints. I pretty much build everything else from scratch! The printer works really well!

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by **thawkins** » 2014-Dec-Sun-06-Dec

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Sun-17-Dec

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Mon-16-Dec

I got a ton if the parts made now!

Just have to figure out a RAMPS box, RDSC case is printing now, then I just need to do a simple extruder mount and a spool holder.

I decided to cheat a bit for the bed mount, I'm going to use a piece of aluminum for it as I had it lying around and it's easy enough to mount on the OFD

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Tue-02-Dec

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There is the 3D model of the Orange Furball Delta V1!

There is roughly 40 printed parts for the printer, including the RAMPS and RDSC LCD mounts. A lot of these parts are just gathered from Thingiverse and will most likely be replaced with my own designs for the V2.

The LCD seems to stick out, but the mount enables it to be tucked away when not in use, leaving the form factor small enough to fit on a moderately sized desk.

The parts seem to be fitting together really well, and I plan on releasing them at the end of the month. Just being able to play with the Rostock movement on the short rods is amazing, I cannot believe how stable the hot end mount is!

The runners from my first design had a few issues. The rod spacing was wrong by a couple millimeters so it wasn't fitting perfectly on the rods. It fit, but it was hard to move. MY GT2 retention mechanism was also a fail. But luckily I was able to whip up a new design quick and everything is smoother than ever!

All printing is complete except for the power supply, but that is not a necessary part yet. The next phase is firmware.. yay.

Once the firmware is sorted, and the parts come in, assembly will commence. With the winter holidays fast approaching, the mail is quite slow. Oh well, at least I have more time to finish the firmware!

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Tue-16-Dec

Whipped up some clamps to hold the aluminum in, and wow it fits great! No need for screws, glue, or zip ties.

by **mechanizedmedic** » 2014-Dec-Tue-17-Dec

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Wed-01-Dec

More progress in the bed mounting area! My clips to hold the metal sheet on worked flawlessly and 4 small "nuts" holds the bed screws in just fine. This is so good, I might have to make a kit available in the future!

Starting work on some of the drawings for assembly, I just have a knob some sort of spool holder left to make

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Wed-17-Dec

All of the parts are here!

Hopefully I'll be able to assemble the whole thing tomorrow. The rods and hot end took forever to come!

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Thu-18-Dec

Well, here's where I am now. Found enough time to build this thing today, everything mechanically seems to work, endstops are at least functional, but I can't print. Not sure what the issue is, I posted in a Delta specific Google Group so I'm just waiting to see where that gets me!

Hopefully I'll be printing soon! I was able to get the thing to move around a but though.. my goodness Deltas look so awesome while moving!

by **orangefurball** » 2014-Dec-Mon-21-Dec

Well the mechanics are now working, the heatbed went out the window for now though. I don't need one on here and I can always add it later. I printed some clips that hold a glass square on for now!

The hotend I got was no good. Clogs like crazy, so I am waiting on a replacement for that.

And my RAMPS board was acting up, not sure if it was the shield or Arduino, so u bought a replacement of each. If its the shield I will have a backup Arduino, if its the Arduino, I'll have a backup shield. Nothing wrong with backups!

More updates to come when parts come!

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Thu-00-Jan

[img]http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/07/e26c487b6bf7ad227cf4bdcb215b7f2c.jpg[/img]

A few revisions later and it prints!!!!!

More info to come soon!

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Sat-13-Jan

Decided to post some test prints, there are a few objects including an owl, a dog, a "lucky cat", and a whistle. I also printed out s bunch of MAKE magazine's 2015 printer test pieces and they came out surprisingly good.

The last picture is showing my part cooling setup, there are three fan ducts that I designed that provide enough cooling all around the part to make overhangs amazing, the MAKE overhang test came out perfectly even up to the 70 degree angle!

by **kbowen99** » 2015-Jan-Sat-15-Jan

Looks like an awesome printer! are you going to publish your parts online?

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Sat-16-Jan

by **kbowen99** » 2015-Jan-Sat-23-Jan

How much would you estimate the price your printer at (just mechanical parts), Just curious...

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Sat-23-Jan

by **kbowen99** » 2015-Jan-Sun-11-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Sun-13-Jan

by **kbowen99** » 2015-Jan-Sun-13-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Sun-15-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Tue-23-Jan

The design is really close to being finished, I didn't really have a spool holding method, so I decided to switch everything up. I moved the extruder to be mounted on the top frame and having a spool holder mounted there, this was a bit difficult because of how compact the printer is. So I decided to do it in levels. The extruder is even with the top frame, and the spool is about 30mm higher. The problem then is getting filament to the extruder, but a simple guide that is level with the spool holder with some PTFE made the system work.

Its printing even better Now. The force from the PTFE pushing from the side was a small issue, now its fine because it pushes downward!

And the final update, I took off the LED strip. It didn't do much anyway, and the decrease in power means it run from a 10 amp supply. So I ordered that and its a lot smaller. Still waiting for it to be delivered, but it will be mounted under the bed, meaning its totally out of the way.

There is also an option of using a laptop style brick, but I think I'll stick with the actively cooled designs. The RAMPS board will continue to be mounted on the outside so its easily accessible, and the LCD will be mounted on the front of the printer. Easy access yet out of the way and simple!

by **thawkins** » 2015-Jan-Wed-00-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Wed-02-Jan

by **thawkins** » 2015-Jan-Wed-03-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Wed-03-Jan

by **thawkins** » 2015-Jan-Wed-04-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Wed-04-Jan

by **owens** » 2015-Jan-Wed-09-Jan

by **Mooselake** » 2015-Jan-Wed-12-Jan

Ask Plexus for a wiki account; spammers love wiki's, think thousands of accounts if you're not watching, so he approves account requests.

It'd be great if you kept it here. Add me to the interested list, too. Need a final home for the gear extruder and AMU.

Iirc you can call Microsoft support to fix that activation problem, but you'll need to dig a bit to figure out which number. I've done it, but it was quite a while back.

Kirk

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Wed-17-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Wed-17-Jan

Power supply mounted, LCD mounted, the design is complete!

Look at how much smaller this 10A power supply is compared to the 40A! Hopefully the 40 will drive my Jonbot better than the ATX one that's currently on it.

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Fri-00-Jan

For anyone who wants to print, here are the current files.

http://goo.gl/haXoYM

The hotend mount is set up for an E3D v5 right now. It will be changed to v6 before the Wiki/public release.

Let me know if you have problems/questions!

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Fri-01-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Fri-17-Jan

The Wiki page is now up on the Printrbottalk.com wiki.

http://www.printrbottalk.com/wiki/index ... hingystock

Not finished, but I don't think its bad so far. Please let me know if my instructions are clear enough. These instructions are obviously meant for someone with experience building 3D printers, because it is not yet the full retail version.

There is a picture of most of the stuff I have printed up until now. The quality is really something else, It's better than my Jonbot.

I'm going to be launching a really small Kickstarter. I'm going to be asking for a few thousand only (not only, that's a lot, but I don't want to ask for an astronomical amount that will never be reached) I was hoping to get around doing a Kickstarter but that's really the only way to gauge interest. At $3000 that's only 6-7 printers.

Here are what the tiers will be;

Hardware only pack - no printed parts, but everything else you will need.

Kit - a partially assembled kit. Well, kit isn't really the word the it. Basically all you have to is place the rods in, tighten some screws, and clip on everything else. The top and bottom frame will come assembled, the effector/runner assembly will come assembled, it shouldn't take more than a half hour to build (depending on how fan you can tighten screws)

That's it. No fully assembled printer for now. Mainly because there's no need to have it fully assembled. The increased shipping cost for a small individual like me would be insane for a full printer and the kit takes basically no time to build. Now if somehow there is a lot of interest, there will be a fully assembled model, but I'm thinking that that is not going to happen.

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Wed-18-Jan

Now funding on Kickstarter.

I didn't want to, but I had to get the price as low as I could (even at the small volume that I am asking for, it is still hard to get manufacturers to sell you affordable parts)

For anyone interested, you can visit the or my website for more info.

Thanks!

by **Munson** » 2015-Jan-Thu-11-Jan

I wish you good luck !!!

by **DonaldJ** » 2015-Jan-Fri-15-Jan

Ooooh! Big-Time media coverage: http://3dprint.com/39113/thingystock-3d-printer/

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Fri-15-Jan

by **evanalmighty** » 2015-Jan-Fri-19-Jan

Good job. Good luck with the Kickstarter campaign.

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Fri-20-Jan

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Tue-19-Jan

Just 23 days to go on the Kickstarter! Only 10% of the way to my goal though! If anyone is interested please check it out or ask me questions.

There has been some small updating to the printer, shorter arms to increase the Z height slightly, lowered the hot end for more stability and space for cooling, and went to an MK7 drive gear based extruder for better grip. Printing better than ever now!

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Jan-Fri-18-Jan

I wrote a small update to the campaign, you can view that .

It outlines some new changes to the printer, some more information on just how easy the kit is to assemble, and a price drop to the kit!

If you would like to help me out with the campaign, please share it on social media, with friends, family, or even on other 3D printing forums or groups that allow link sharing. Right now the only thing holding the campaign back is my inability to reach a large audience, so having whoever is willing to help me share it will make it a success!

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Feb-Thu-18-Feb

Well, not much time left for the campaign! Looks like the V1 won't be successful, but I have some [magnetic] ideas in the works for the V1.5/V2

Stay tuned!

by **orangefurball** » 2015-Feb-Wed-01-Feb

The Orange Furball/Thingystock V2 is well on its way. I have some different pulleys in mind for higher res printing and some better cooling for the extruder. But most importantly.. magnets!

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There is ZERO backlash with these magnets and the hot end now mounts on magnets for easy maintenance. Not only that, but the entire effector can be removed and messed with without any joint removal. Really a much better printer.

Another bonus.. it is a bit quieter than the plastic joints. A great upgrade!

I'll post some pictures soon. Ignore the bad print quality on the mounts; I printed then on my "spare parts" printer.

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