Freeside Atlanta

We've had two really great 3D printing meetups lately, one to talk about and demo 3D printers , and another to help people build and debug them . Here's some of the stuff we saw -   Jorge brought in his Rostock Prisma to show it off and debug a few extruder issues. It's a really cool and fairly robust design. Plus, it's a lot of fun to watch! You can also check out the Thingyverse page that Jorge has put together for it.  We also had Ant's 3D printer and the Thing-o-Matic going, so people could benchmark or run off a few parts. James Stephens also brought in his RepRap Mendel to debug some extruder issues. Randy did some work on his CNC, building a cabinet with removable side-walls for it, while Van continued working on his 3D Printer, the same variant as Ant's and the one that I am building for the space. I made slow progress on that, too, and it "only needs to be wired up" now. That's all for now! Watch our Me...

I got an interesting question on my YouTube channel yesterday asking if my transimpendance ammeter can measure A/C in addition to D/C and if the output of the instrument is A/C. The answer is yes to all of the above. Good question and a fun little thing to test on the bench on a Saturday morning.

I pushed 185 watts through my custom DC relays last night. They ate up that power like a champ. Likewise, I've also been testing it in the off condition to measure its steady off power consumption. The cards burn 150 nano amps or 1.8uW when off. That's means it's about 80 mega ohms which is OUTSTANDING. This project is really moving along nicely. I have some serious burn in testing to do and then it's time to get the main board encapsulated and do some real life testing. That's going to be fun!