Welcome to This week in 3d, I don’t think I need to explain what it is, the hint is
in the name, and it’s mostly something I invented so I can practice my newsreader voice,
I feel like if this gets popular I might even have to find an intimidating theme tune that
makes you instantly conditioned to expect depressing news, anyway here we go and it’s
not just this week because there was also a last week, just go with it.
Ultimaker and Makerbot merge with a fresh inventive name – yeah I gotta work on this
newsreader voice, give me a few weeks, I’ll get there.
This is somehting that would have been covered weeks ago if I was doing this so it’s kind
of old news now, but I think it’s big enough to include – Makerbot was previously owned
by Stratasys since 2013 and the news is that makerbot and ultimaker have now merged into
one entity which is now complete and the new name is maker baker.
No it’s not, it’s Ultimaker, with a capital M. I know.
In their defence I’m not sure what else they could have chosen.
Anyway there is some interesting potential future outcomes here as this means that now
UltiMaker now owns thingiverse, the ailing stl sharing website, I think I can say that,
I was around for that time when it stopped working properly last year ish…and there
have been some hints that they might have plans for it that don’t involve adding more
ads.
I did personally ask what the plans were but not for this segment, just out of nosiness.
I don’t really have any clue what the future direction is going to be for the new company
but I was sad to see that the referred to already as former ceo of ultimaker lower case
m plans to leave, and I’m not sure what to think about that, hopefully nothing.
I want to be optimistic about the future for the new company, unusually for me, I know.
Of course on the topic of Ultimaker we already know that cura 4.2 beta was released because
I put a video out about it last week and you’ve all watched it so I don’t need to mention
it right?
ERRF is looming on the horizon for the North American viewers, while the rest of the world
braces for the massive influx of ERRF related content on social media,
haha no it’s fine, carry on.
This is 8th and 9th of October and ERRF is taking place in….
…America.
So if you live there, why not pop over and check it out.
Please be careful though, after what happened in MRRF earlier in the year where a not insignificant
number of 3d printing attendees got infected by you know what, that’s not the kind of
thing I mean when I say mass spamming of ERRF related content.
And I will say no more, I’m not your parents.
It looks huge though, I would take part if I lived in that place called America.
But I don’t, so have fun if you are going.
Oh also if you can help E3D as they’ve once again had their stuff held up in customs,
this is the third time I think I’ve seen this, it’s kind of becoming their thing
now, last time they wanted to fill their stall with machines too so just keep an eye on that
if you’re going and can potentially help out by taking them some tea bags or something.
Buyers left spoiled for choice as multiple machine releases announced this week, actually
not all this week, but there is the Biqu hurakan which is probably not the best timing for
a machine with that name but that’s the name they have, it’s a klipper bed slinger
which is a first I think, commercially, I have one coming to review apparently but it’s
currently delayed due to the high winds…it’s not, but that sounded ….anyway, the Sovol
SV06 was also announced this week , sovol in an unusual move started out with a cloth
over the printer and slow reveals of features but I guess got annoyed with people asking
if it was a corexy and just revealed the product page, by the time I share this it’s bound
to be public..hopefully, but I have one of those already, I have a pre production machine,
am I allowed to review that?
Don’t care, doing it anyway.
I feel like the sv06 review…sorry preview will be out around the same time as this video
so I don’t need to dwell on it, but it’s kind of refreshingly different in an era of
bigger and more featureless machines, meaning visually featureless, all machines seem to
look like black 2040 aluminium at the moment, and we don’t talk about how much it looks
like a you know what.
Geeetech have released their thunder…it’s all about weather isn’t it at the moment,
didn’t there used to be a biqu thunder, umm…anyway I don’t have a review planned,
do you want me to?
Let me know in the comments.
it’s claimed to do 300mm/s but I dunno, I mean, I would be surprised?
It claims a 21 minute benchy and that’s actually quite fast.
The steppers have closed loop control too which could well bear poking at, I have some
so called closed loop drivers here, what it is, is encoders that go behind the stepper
to just check the location, and correct it if necessary, but them being wired separately
is making me wonder whether these are slightly more intelligent..could actually be interesting.
It and the hurakan are both Bowden though and that is weird, I can’t entirely understand
that as a choice.
But there you go.
Prusa has done a thing thats the title I actually have here, look
I’m on a deadline, it is what it is.
Prusa have apparently added into their firmware a thermal protection function that ...to quote
them...aims to detect unexpected heating issues of ANY sort.
I wonder if that includes when marlin is idle and not during a print, seen that, quite scary,
not on a prusa I might add, anyway yeah it’s based on simulating the hotend and I haven’t
looked into it THAT much but it seems on the face of it that they’re doing something
a bit not unlike a little known functionality in marlin that nobody uses that’s called
...hang on….
Model predictive temperature control.
Someone I know well on our discord has previously recommended I look at this and it’s pretty
high on my list so expect that soon, but as it stands it looks like maybe...that’s what
this is, but maybe not, could just be similar wording, I don’t have time to dig into it
for this news thing, comment if you know obviously, the upshot is that this is supposedly going
to be able to detect things like this.
Which honestly would be quite nice as that’s...nightmare fuel.
Top tip if you ever get this by the way, I see people all the time panicking, it’s
actually not that bad, set the hotend to 60C and that is the glass temperature for PLA
at least, you can then peel it off in big sections.
Social media users are losing their minds over full control
Full control is a spreadsheet VBA thingy that you can put numbers in and it makes raw gcode
for your printer, you can break all the normal slicer rules because we don’t need a slicer
where we’re going, but to say it’s intimidating is an understatement, and it needs excel,
proper excel, but that is not the news, the news is that I’m surprised VBA is still
a thing, no that’s also not the news – the actual news is that there is now a website
fullcontrol.xyz which is different to the standard one and looks very fancy, and it’s
like an advent calendar of models to print out!
What I’m really interested in is the promise of a python version of full control, I can’t
imagine I’m alone here.
But the examples are somewhat customisable and in most cases a bit of a show off with
regards to what FDM is capable of and that’s right up my street obviously.
That is it you’re probably vaguely up to date, I have been…talking…and this was
the week in 3D.
cut to the music we don’t have yet.