{"id":176,"date":"2017-09-17T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/?p=176"},"modified":"2017-09-17T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T14:02:28","slug":"my-first-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/my-first-3d-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"My First 3D Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was rather impressed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EV3Dprinter\/\">Baz&#8217;s 3D LEGO printer<\/a>\u00a0when I got to see it at LW2017. So, I figured that when I had time I&#8217;d build it and have a go at coding it myself. I finally got all the parts this month and have built it up &#8211; albeit in different colours, and with a few minor structural changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124445051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124445051-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124445051-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124445051-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124445051-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124445051-1200x2133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124553393-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124553393-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124553393-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124553393-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124553393-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124835154-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124835154-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124835154-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124835154-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170917_124835154-1200x2133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I got the code working for the first time! It&#8217;s not fully fledged, but it&#8217;s functional, so I&#8217;m going to post a link to what I have so that people can follow my progress. The link below points to this basic code:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jander.me.uk\/LEGO\/resources\/EV3DPrinter_JN-v0-1.ev3\">http:\/\/www.jander.me.uk\/LEGO\/resources\/EV3DPrinter_JN-v0-1.ev3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will be expanded to do more things, such as simple geometric shapes\/prisms\/cones, and reading datafiles to print more complex structures. I doubt I&#8217;ll pursue the G-code system as that&#8217;s too complex to handle in EV3G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was rather impressed by Baz&#8217;s 3D LEGO printer\u00a0when I got to see it at LW2017. So, I figured that when I had time I&#8217;d build it and have a go at coding it myself. I finally got all the parts this month and have built it up &#8211; albeit in different colours, and with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/my-first-3d-printer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My First 3D Printer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}