{"id":351,"date":"2019-08-23T01:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T01:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2019-08-24T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:13:43","slug":"3d-printing-and-printers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/other-hobbies-and-projects\/3d-printing-and-printers\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing and Printers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>Making Something from Nothing&#8230;<br><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3D Printing caught my attention from fellow robot builders on an old  well known robot forum back in 2013.  Although commercial version were available, they were not hobby based  and finally people were now able to afford to build their own at a  reasonable price. Plus when others are doing something cool, you want to as well so I  followed a couple builds by Jinx and Hoff70 and decided to dive in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIt was fun, a bit challenging, but it worked and my first build was done in late 2013 as the <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.123.10\/3dPrinting\/ProtoPrusa\">Prusa i2<\/a> was printing.\nGreat tips from the online crowd really helped out as they walked me through debugging things and getting it all working.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nAfter getting the i2 working I was really interested in building another\n as most forum users were and the prices for the electronics were \ndropping so I picked up some cheap electronics \nand steppers and starting building a couple more printers. I found an \nold style \nbut so super simple Wallace design that had been upgraded to M8 or 5\/16&#8243;\n rod and \nstarting printing parts on my Prusa for the new printer. Then I found a \nnewer \ndesign called the SmartRap and got interested in it and starting \nprinting parts \nand seeing how cheap I could put it together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThen I lost interest&#8230; Happens quite often but during 2015 I fully concentrated \non getting my 1969 Mustang back on the road after twenty years of being down and \nall other projects were pretty much put on hold. The Mustang was running by mid \n2015 but no printer interest resurfaced so the two printers sat in the closet \nuntil late 2016 when I became interested again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Here you will find build information, pics of prints, and some custom parts that  I&#8217;ve used on my builds. Nothing spectacular, just having fun.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"\/index.php\/other-hobbies-and-projects\/3d-printing-and-printers\/gray-hair-wallace-build\/\">GrayHair Wallace Build &#8211; 02\/2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"\/index.php\/other-hobbies-and-projects\/3d-printing-and-printers\/mr-wallace\/\">Mr. Wallace Comes out of the Closet &#8211; 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/other-hobbies-and-projects\/3d-printing-and-printers\/prusa-i2-printer\/\">Prusa i2 Build &#8211; 2013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Something from Nothing&#8230; 3D Printing caught my attention from fellow robot builders on an old well known robot forum back in 2013. Although commercial version were available, they were not hobby based and finally people were now able to afford to build their own at a reasonable price. Plus when others are doing something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/other-hobbies-and-projects\/3d-printing-and-printers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3D Printing and Printers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":347,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/479"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}