3D printers

Printing Teddy Bears: A Technique for 3D Printing of Soft Interactive Objects

This paper considers the design, construction, and example use of a new type of 3D printer which fabricates three-dimensional objects from soft fibers (wool and wool blend yarn). This printer allows the substantial advantages of additive manufacturing techniques (including rapid turn-around prototyping of physical objects and support for high levels of customization and configuration) to be employed with a new class of material.  

A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects

We present a new type of 3D printer that can form precise, but soft and deformable 3D objects from layers of off-the-shelf fabric. Our printer employs an approach where a sheet of fabric forms each player of a 3D object. The printer cuts this sheet along the 2D contour of the layer using a laser cutter and then bonds it to previously printed layers using a heat sensitive adhesive. Surrounding fabric in each layer is temporarily retained to provide a removable support structure for layers printed above it. This process is repeated to build up a 3D object layer by…

Budaschnozzle 1.0 test video

Test video. Budaschnozzle 1.0 printing  

Budaschnozzle Broken PEEK Removal

Video of how to remove a broken PEEK insulator from the nozzle. You will need to heat up the hot-end to extrusion temperature before trying to remove the PEEK insulator. You will need a flat head screwdriver and a pair of pliers.  

LulzBot Headquarters Printers

A quick video of 20 of our shop printers printing at the Aleph Objects/ LulzBot headquarters.  

LulzBot HQ RepRap 3d Printer Fleet

Budaschnozzle 1.1, How to change out the PTFE tube

The Budaschnozzle 1.1 comes set up to print 3mm plastic filament. With a optional PTFE tube that can be changed out in the hotend, you can print with 1.75mm filament. This video shows the quick and easy process of changing out this PTFE tube.  

Budaschnozzle 1.1, Changing out the nozzle

One of the goals in the redesign of the Budaschnozzle 1.1 was to make the nozzle easier to change out. Here is a video showing how easy it is to change out the nozzle. Notice that the nozzle is changed without needing to take the hotend off of the printer.  

First test print with Polycarbonate plastic

Video of our first test print with polycarbonate plastic. We are using a modified Budaschnozzle 1.1 currently. We will do tests with the standard Budaschnozzle 1.1 shortly.  

LulzBot Prusa Mendel 1.0, Print From Start to Finish

A video detailing the process of the LulzBot Prusa Mendel printing a test Octopus.  

LulzBot Headquarters March 2012 / Fleet update

Earlier this year we added more printers to our shop fleet and reconfigured the shop setup. Have a look at 28 printers running all off of two computers.  

Making ABS / Acetone Solution

Loading Filament onto the AO-100 3D Printer

Setting the Z Axis Home Height

Leveling the AO-100 Print Surface

Prepping the Print Surface / Removing Finished Prints

The LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer

LulzBot / Aleph Objects, Inc. Headquarters

Unboxing the AO-100 3D Printer

Aleph Objects / LulzBot Promo