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Open Source 3D Printing Meetup.

Freeside Atlanta will be hosting an Open Source 3D Printing meetup. Like most events at Freeside this will be free and open to the public. We will have a number of 3D printers on hand to show off and will be building a new one during the meetup. This is a great opportunity for people to learn more about 3D printing and to see some printers in action. There will also be a special guest who operates ultimachine.com and has built a successful business around this emerging technology. Hope to see you there! When: December 4th 2010 @ 10am Where: Freeside Atlanta http://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/the-space Full Event Details: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?121,66570 More Info on Open Source 3D printing: http://reprap.org http://makerbot.com/ http://ultimachine.com/blog Add to your Calender:

The Egg Bot is Alive

I finally had some time (around 2 hours or so) to sit down with the Egg Bot and work with straighting everything up and finally getting a good egg out of it. Trying to go to high or low on the egg just stretches the image out and makes the design on the egg look terrible. (see our first try of the FreeSide Logo on an egg ) Different colors are done by creating layers in your image (like in photoshop), The software allows you to print one layer, change the color marker and then print the next layer, while remembering where it's at on the egg. As you can see in the above video, it works pretty well.