Mark Rehorst's Tech Topics

UMMD was built to print decorative objects like large vases and lamps.  A couple failed test prints, including this one at the Milwaukee Mak...

Here's a project I did about 11 years ago , years before I built my first 3D printer.  It's a Van De Graaff generator (VDG) that pro...

I recently saw a couple pictures someone posted of two identical prints, made on the same machine with the same gcode file, one using very i...

Some people like to dress their printers up with 24 bit RGB variable color LED lighting that they can control from a phone.  Meh.  I just wa...

UMMD, my recently built coreXY 3D printer , has been at the Milwaukee MakerSpace for the last week while I put the finishing touches on it ...

In this explanation, I'm going to use SmoothieWare as an example for the config file entries, but there are similar entries for whatever...