Category: 3d printing
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Breaking out the 3D printer again
It’s been almost exactly a year since I first got a 3D printer, and a couple things have conspired recently to convince me to take it off the shelf and try using it again. The most pressing need is for more parts boxes for organizing SMD parts: I use coin envelopes for storing cut strips…
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3D printing update
No real project to tie these together, just a common tool/technology: SainSmart filament review A while ago I bought, and received, this SainSmart 1.75mm PLA filament. Recently I’ve only been using my printrbot for making organization boxes; today I happened to need more, so I took this as a chance to test out the new…
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Dropbox Hackweek, part 2: building a simple robot
I’m late in writing this post since Hackweek was a few weeks ago now, but better late than never I suppose. As I mentioned in my previous hackweek post my goal was to use my new 3D-printer to build some parts for a simple robot. Unfortunately, getting the 3d-printer working took four out of the five…
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Dropbox Hackweek: 3D Printing
One of the many perks of working at Dropbox is getting to participate in Hackweek, a weeklong hackathon for everyone in the company. In the past I’ve worked on an AI project to predict user file accesses (fun but unsuccessful), a Python type analyzer and then a Python compiler built on top of the type…
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