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My 3D printed CNC cuts steel!! I made a couple of modifications to my 3D printed CNC and now I have a way more capable machine. The original design can cut wood quite fast and reliably but with aluminium I found its limits so I decided to make it a bit slower but way more capable of cutting metals. I swapped the Nema 17 for ones with a 1:19 planetary gear ratio and swapped the GT2 belts for HTD 5M belts and now it can push the bit agains the material really hard. I tried to cut aluminium at very high speeds with flawless results which gave me the courage to try and cut steel and surprise! It cuts 1.5 mm steel like butter!! If you want to get the plans to build your own you can find them here:
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My 3D printed CNC cuts steel!! I made a couple of modifications to my 3D printed CNC and now I have a way more capable machine. The original design can cut wood quite fast and reliably but with aluminium I found its limits so I decided to make it a bit slower but way more capable of cutting metals. I swapped the Nema 17 for ones with a 1:19 planetary gear ratio and swapped the GT2 belts for HTD 5M belts and now it can push the bit agains the material really hard. I tried to cut aluminium at very high speeds with flawless results which gave me the courage to try and cut steel and surprise! It cuts 1.5 mm steel like butter!! If you want to get the plans to build your own you can find them here:
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This is the third assembly of the marble clock that will show seconds. I made a high throughput marble elevator that can feed enough marbles to the marble selector to keep it running in realtime. I only made it work slowly for now as I need to synchronize it with the rest of the assemblies first so nothing breaks. Next I need to do just that, synchronize this assembly with the other two before I attempt to build the third one as there's no way that I will be able to test that one without the rest of the clock working. As always love to read you comments and suggestions.
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In my quest to build the most reliable marble clock ever I went and built a rotary cam marble selector, 15 cam disks a spur gear reduction with a beveled set to change the rotation plane and lots and lots of 3D printed parts to make which I hope will be the solution to all my marble selection problems. I went back to glass marbles and something I don't mention in the video is that I like way more the sound of the glass marbles knocking. It is a little bit like music. As always love to read your comments!
In my quest to build a marble clock that displays seconds I got to a point where none of the things that I've tried worked reliably so I went back to the drawing board and after internalizing that this marble clock is in itself an absurd machine and that no one can stop me I went all in and built a contraption that at the same time that makes no sense it also works reliably and will make the clock able to work 100% of the time.
This is just one fourth of the total assembly that I have planned for the mechanism required to show one of the two digits required to show seconds and I'll probably merge this clock with the original one so It can show at the same time the complete time with hours, minutes and seconds and make some marble "music" at the same time.
From what I've experienced and If I manage to build it entirely, this will be the first clock that can be detected by a seismograph.
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I got hundreds of comments on my last video encouraging me to build a sorting machine to sort the marbles of my marble clock. Fair enough, I built one. Now the question is, should I put this in the clock to sort the marbles while the clock is working or should I make a different sorter for the clock. This one is super loud, which seems to be on brand with my clock designs, and seems fast enough to be used with the clock in realtime. I would obviously polish the design to make it nicer but you tell me. What should I do?
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In the frenetic pursuit of a working marble clock that displays seconds, in the last video I forgot to actually explain how the clock works and that was the premise for this video. Little did I know about what was going to take to do it as I was in the end going to lose this battle. I'm already working on adding extra overkillness to it to be absolutely sure that it works and works reliably so I can already tell you to expect something absolutely bonkers for the next iteration. As always loving to read your comments so bring'em on!!!
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It seems that building a marble clock that updates every minute isn't a hard enough challenge so I fell to the trap you all set for me in the comments and I'm now building a marble clock that can update every second!! Yes, bonkers, I know, but I hope this becomes an even more fun build than the last and you all follow along with me. Keep the comments coming as they are music to my ears and will help me improve this monstrous machine.
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As I promised in the last video I tried my best to make the clock update minute by minute. It wasn't an easy feat as I dealt with many (expected) issues. As many of you will notice I'm still having lots of issues with the marbles getting stuck on the machine as there's about a 2:5 ratio between good and bad marbles. If anyone knows about a good source of glass marbles please let me know. I had to do a bit of fiddling with the programming to get the timing right and I broke a few more things that what can be seen in the video but at least we have a clock that runs on time now. It is now louder and has less music to it, it is less zen and more stressful but learned a lot here. This project was a lot of fun and I may try some of the things that I could not do in this series in the coming videos. As always loving to hear from you in the comments.
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It took a while indeed but it works!! The "small" issue of the marbles getting stuck everywhere brought me to do one redesign after another which in the end took me to reprint every single piece on the machine but at least it solved the problem. In addition to reprinting everything I had to use steel wire for the marbles to roll on because any minimal imperfection would get the marbles unable to start rolling from a standing stop.
While I was at it I moved the joints to the middle of the inclines and consequently moved the first gate too and that made impossible for the marbles to get trapped in there too.
I changed slightly the marble selection mechanism and now marbles are pushed into the channels instead of rejected out of the elevator. I don't mention in the video why I did it because I hope will be the key of my success in the next and last video for this project where I will try to make it work minute by minute.
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I've always wanted to build a marble clock and now I realise what a huge mistake I made. I had to 3D print huge parts several times and dedicate lots of hours to sanding, filing and getting the parts just right so the marbles don't get stuck. For now I got the marble circuit running with the marble paths, the marble lift that raises the marbles to the top of the circuit and the marbles get in and out of the lift without issue so I think I'm ready for the marble selector. This is the first half of the build and I already think this project is going to be on the "too much" side but I won't be defeated so stay tuned for part 2 because I'm going to make this build epic.
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Building a giant robotic hand for my giant rideable robot wasn't on my bingo card for this year and yet here I am.
In this video I'm building a giant robotic hand that will potentially be a part of my giant rideable robot build so If you're interested on me giving it a go you know what to do ;)
This is definitely the first iteration of this 3D printed robotic hand as once finished I got lots of ideas that will make it 10 times better and honestly, does one ever finish building his giant rideable robot?
As always leave your thoughts down below so I know what todo.
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The files for this 3D printer are here: ivanmiranda.com/products/big-3d-printer-mkv These files are mostly finished and I'll keep updating them with whatever improvements or changes I make to the machine.
The part 1 of the build where I complete the frame and the CoreXY assembly, including the carriage with the hotend, extruder etc. can be found here: youtu.be/qnOci3cJapQ
This is the second and last part of the giant 3D printer with a build volume of 1110mmx1110mmx2005mm that adds up to more than 2.5 m3 build volume.
This is my largest DIY 3D printer build to date and I truly enjoyed building it and I hope you enjoy watching the video, as always let me read your thoughts in the comments.
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I will keep adding stuff to the files until they're complete and then I'll send updates as I keep improving the machine.
I've built a giant 3D printer with a build volume of 1110mmx1110mmx2005mm that adds up to more than 2.5 m3 build volume.
This is my largest build to date and as far as I know is the largest DIY 3D printer in the world. And I've designed it from scratch keeping in mind that anyone should be able to attempt tbis build so each one of the parts of this build fit in a 200x200 mm print bed.
This is part 1 of the build where I complete the frame and the CoreXY assembly, including the carriage with the hotend, extruder etc.
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This video is a restart of the 3D printed Go Kart project. After I redesigned the Lego Inspired parts I finally decided to reprint the steering system and finish the chassis, the seat and the wheels. After this video I only need to add the motors and brakes and it should be ready to go!.
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And send some love to PolyMaker for letting me go wild with their filament! (affiliate link): bit.ly/3i4PEkd
I finished the excavator at last! This thing is lots of fun and very fragile. I, again, went too far and this thing is too big for this kind of design. I recon I could try a different design using the blocks to make an excavator at this scale that doesn't "autodisintegrate".
The choice of using servos was on one side poorly made because they lack power and speed and in the other side poorly made because there's no feedback position so any minor distraction makes the thing implode. If I were to try again something similar I would probably use linear actuators (like the ones used in beds) and would wire endstops to stop the thing form harming itself.
I broke a few screws here and there but the screws are quite reliable even though the printing orientation is not the best.
As always leave your comments and questions down below.
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I'm building a giant excavator using the 3D printed Miranda Blocks that I designed to build the Go Kart to race Matt Denton and his lego inspired Go Kart. When I started building the Go Kart I realised that there were a lot of improvements that could be done to the blocks but Iterating the design on that monstrous scale was going to take a lot of time and be quite wasteful so I created this scaled down version of the blocks which took a loooot of filament so go and send some love to PolyMaker for letting me go wild with their filament! (aff link): bit.ly/3i4PEkd
As the goal of the blocks is to be able to use and reuse them to prototype different projects I needed a project with a little bit more punch than a car so I decided to try and build an excavator. This excavator design is already too big for these blocks but that's intentional as I want to test the limits of the design so I can be sure that I thought of every detail before starting to print these at full scale.
Thanks a lot to Creality for sponsoring this video and letting me work on a fun project.
CHAPTERS 00:00 INTRO 00:57 SAFETY 02:01 FOCUS BAR 02:18 ONE BUTTON OPERATION 02:42 BUILT IN LEVELLER 02:49 GRADIENT ENGRAVING 03:24 SCALE ENGRAVING 04:08 CUTTING AND ENGRAVING 06:42 TESTING 07:10 WE ARE CREATORS OF MASTERPIECESI BUILT MY OWN HUGE LEGO INSPIRED BLOCKS FOR A LIFE SIZED GO KART!!Ivan Miranda2022-11-29 | No matter how big or small your custom manufacturing project may be, you can start your manufacturing project with Xometry. Visit xometry.com/miranda to get your design quoted, produced, and in your hands in no time and use code: MIRANDA25 for $25 off your first order
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Hi everyone! The second part of the Lego Inspired Go Kart build is here! This time I focused on the Miranda Blocks design and tried to make more sensible progress by testing the Go Kart Design with the newly created Miranda Blocks Mini.
As always please let me know your thoughts down below.
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I'm finally building a lego inspired go kart to race Matt Denton. I had the opportunity to try his at Makers Central last spring and I challenged Matt to a race. I'm going to win! Go team Miranda! If you are interested on a scale down version of the Miranda Blocks that I'm using for this build let me know in the comments!
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Making it print took a bit too long because I went the fancy way with the Z axis homing sequence. The Duet3 boards are full of possibilities, you can check them all out here: duet3d.com
And all the filament on this video was sponsored by Polymaker. They seem to be as crazy as I am or more so please send them some love!: www.polymaker.com
The printer is finished as it is already printing but there's one more video in this series where I plan on fixing and mending all the bodges that I had to do to be able to progress during this build. I've learned a lot and there are a few low effort changes that will make it ten times better. Not sure if that video will be the next one or I will need a bit more time so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss it.
CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:34 Carriage assembly 02:32 Drag chain contraption 05:27 Filament runout sensor 07:53 Bed homing sequence 10:12 PrintingI FINALLY CAVED, COREXY - GIANT 3D PRINTER BUILD PT. 4Ivan Miranda2022-10-12 | Check out PCBWay at: pcbway.com/?from=Ivan for 3D Printing, Sheet metal fabrication, Injection moulding, CNC services and more!
I kept doubting until the last minute while designing the printer but in the end I caved and went for the CoreXY arrangement on the XY axis belts.
It was easier to implement than I thought and harder to understand than I anticipated. I had to even make a prototype to wrap my head around the concept and still I'm not entirely sure about how to adjust for squareness but I'll get there eventually I'm sure.
I went all in with the motors because I hope to be able to print thinner layers really fast with this one but time will tell.
Send some love to polymaker.com to let them know that you like them supporting my madness.
CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:20 What's CoreXY? 01:06 Gantry assembly 03:36 Installing the idlers 05:16 Replacing the Z pulleys 06:19 The motors 08:10 Installing the belts 09:22 Testing
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I'm building a giant 3D printer from scratch, the printer will have a print volume of 1000x1000x1420 mm. Everything you see in the video has been designed and 3D printed by me and the files will be available on my website www.ivanmiranda.com when the project is finished.
I'll be using a Slice Engineering magnum plus hotend and It is controlled by a Duet3 MBHC which is a fantastic controller, check it out!: duet3d.com/products
In this episode I install 4 - 1Kw heaters on a 3mm aluminium plate. The heaters are individually controlled by the Duet3 through 4 SSR and each heated bed has an independent thermal fuse just in case things go haywire. On top I used a regular piece of 5mm glass. That will be more than enough for PLA or similar plastics.
CHAPTERS 00:00 The plate 01:07 Half wave rectifier 02:06 Thermal fuse 03:48 Sticking to the plate 06:57 Wiring 08:24 Fail 1 - Short 08:48 Fail 2 - Common ground 09:11 Fail 3 - SSR Triac 10:33 The glass 11:48 Speed testMOST POWERFUL 3D PRINTER BED EVER (lifts human) - GIANT 3D PRINTER BUILD PT. 2Ivan Miranda2022-09-10 | 🌏Get NordVPN 2 year plan + 4 months free here ➼nordvpn.com/miranda It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee!
I'm building a giant 3D printer from scratch, the printer will have a print volume of 1000x1000x1420 mm. Everything you see in the video has been designed and 3D printed by me and the files will be available on my website www.ivanmiranda.com when the project is finished. I'll be using a Slice Engineering magnum plus hotend and It is controlled by a Duet3 MBHC which is a fantastic controller, check it out!: duet3d.com/products
The bed frame is lifted by four Nema23 motors with a 47:1 gear ratio and it already weighs 15 kilos without the bed heater or surface so this is going to end up being a heavy one, but you'll see in the video that that won't be an issue. The motors are being run at 1.2A for the stunt at the end of the video so I have plenty of power to lift whatever I decide to print.
CHAPTERS 00:00 The frame 01:35 The motors 02:37 Bracing 05:17 Minor Setback 06:30 NordVPN 07:28 Wiring the motors 09:48 Mainboard 11:02 Calibration 11:40 Belts 13:43 TestMAKING A GIANT FRAME FOR A 3D PRINTER (from scratch) - GIANT 3D PRINTER BUILD PT. 1Ivan Miranda2022-08-22 | Start your free trial to Altium Designer for 15 days: altium.com/yt/ivanmiranda Check out Octopart: octopart.com I'm building a giant 3D printer from scratch, the printer will have a print volume of 1000x1000x1420 mm. The printer will be able to print about 4kg of Filament a day and amongst other things it'll be able to print an entire Go Kart chassis in one go for my challenge with @MattDenton or the hull of a boat that I can ride. Of course the Big Tank will see new parts printed on this once it is up and running. Everything you see in the video has been designed and 3D printed by me and the files will be available on my website www.ivanmiranda.com when the project is finished. I'll be using a Slice Engineering magnum plus hotend and it will be controlled by a Duet3 Controller board.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Cutting to length 02:07 Vertical posts 05:00 Altium Designer 06:07 Y axis guides 08:55 Braces 09:37 Feet
After using the Tiny CNC that I made back in January for a while I've been wanting to improve it and make it more rigid. The natural next step for that router would have been to machine the plastic parts in aluminium but I was sure that the rods and bearings were way more important in terms of rigidity so I set myself to redesign it using linear rails. In the end I started the design from scratch and every single 3D printed part in it is new. I've tried to keep it as compatible as possible with the hardware of the MKI just in case those who got the files for it can switch to this new design.
In this new version there's also more clearance for stock, up to 85 mm and more usable Z travel as it can move up to 60 mm. The vacuum hose adapter of the MKI was taking a lot of usable stock clearance so I've designed a new retractable one that mounts on the side.
This one is clearly more rigid and can be pushed a lot to machine faster and better parts and I'm pretty happy with the final design.
As always I'd love to read your thoughts down below. Enjoy and thanks!!
CHAPTERS: 00:00 The frame 04:40 Gantry 06:10 Altium 06:55 Gantry II 08:55 Carriage 10:56 Z Assembly 12:00 Wiring 13:11 Vacuum Adapter 13:36 Wasteboard 15:18 Calibration 17:04 Testing 17:45 Conclusions
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I've been doing a lot of off camera work to the tank so I could get it ready for this test, It has been a fun test and I've learned a lot about what does and what does not work. By my observations I'd say that the parts that failed did it so because: · I printed them really weak because I was running to finish the tank. · The parts were at least 2 years old and had been supporting the weight of the tank all that time. · There are a couple of design flaws that introduced unwanted weaknesses mostly on the links.
Even though the fact that it is 3D printed is a clear drawback I think I'm pretty close to it working as I want so I'll keep pushing through. I still consider the tank finished but I'll have to redesign and reprint a bunch of parts. Please let me know what you think about it in the comments!
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 01:39 Transporting the tank 02:46 How does it work 04:34 PCBWay 05:18 Testing 09:56 Unexpected disassembly 11:15 Damage reportI CRASHED MY GIANT 3D PRINTED TANK WHILE DRIFTING ITIvan Miranda2022-05-22 | Thank you INTO THE AM for these Elevated Everyday Graphic Tees! Get yours now and get 10% off site-wide when you click this link: intotheam.com/ivanmiranda
This time I added a giant hopper on top of the Giant 3D Printed Tank to get a whopping 200 balls of capacity. As always I found a few difficulties in the process but I ended up having way too much fun as it always happens with this project. As always loving to hear your thoughts in the comments.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Making it faster 03:10 Hopper assembly 04:57 Into the AM 05:33 Troubleshooting 08:45 Testing!
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Finally! The tank got a cannon! The ball feeding system is a hybrid from the last two ball launcher builds as the revolver separates the ball hopper from the airstream and gives a constant launch rate and the conveyor can feed balls in line at an insane speed.
As you already know I cannot make anything not huge and the large cannon was a bit of a struggle for the turret base plate but I reprinted the side wall in one part and that seemed to give it enough rigidity. I keep forgetting that the entire thing is made of plastic.
The turret is still missing the hopper for the balls and I have bought a few switches, lights and levers to add proper controls for the turret on the sides of the seat so I can operate the turret while driving.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Barrel 01:50 Ball revolver 03:18 EDF motor 03:42 PCBway 04:30 Cannon on the turret 05:16 Tilt actuator 07:24 Ball conveyor 09:37 Testing
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About the 3D printer used to print the huge prints on the video: youtu.be/KhBdMpEGH0o
About the CNC router used to make the aluminium parts for the video: youtu.be/dkvED8p8bt0
I made a turret for the 3D printed tank so we can put a cannon on top of it. I also installed a few accessories on it that will make easier to install the barrel and the rest of the motors and actuators to make it work. I'm using a nema 23 stepper motor to make the turret spin and seems to be more than capable to spin the turret at a decent speed. I'm running the motor @12V for now but 24V will be available when I install the electronics for the cannon. As always let me know your thoughts down below!
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Turret base 00:46 Giant bearing 01:23 Centering endstop 02:01 Pan motor 04:24 Rotating base perimeter 05:30 PCBWay 06:15 Electronics 07:52 Programming and testing
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I finally got back to the big tank project! This was more fun than I even remembered.
Many of you may remember that the tank had a clamshell style cover, and it seemed like a good idea to me at the time but it had two 30 Kg gas cylinders to help with the lifting and those pushed the lid forward constantly when the lid was closed. That shifted the cover forward and bent the back of the frame, a couple of the hinges also broke. That paired with the fact that it was going to be impossible to fit a turret on top (too heavy) and that it was incredibly disorienting (and uncomfortable) to ride the tank on my back made me discard the idea and start over.
The new seat is surprisingly comfortable (I've never designed a seat before) and it allows for the next modification to the driving of the tank, PEDALS!. Before getting to the pedals idea I revolved a lot around a complex driving wheel with buttons and levers but in the end, my feet where free and is super intuitive to control. In the video you may see that I put a couple of encoders on the pedals but those had pretty poor resolution and I had only 12 encoder counts for the entire travel of each speed so I ended up temporarily connecting linear potentiometers to the Arduino as an almost drop in replacement. I'll need to swap those for something more robust and most probably will add two on each pedal as a safety as this thing going hay wire doesn't sound safe. I also added a couple of 200 amp switches on the panel behind the seat that will in the future cut power to the batteries.
And as an inevitable modification I removed the three chain reduction gear that I previously mounted as it was extremely unreliable and kept broke, I broke chains, shafts, bolts.. everything in it was failing all the time. Since I made that video I've learned a lot and HTD 5M belts seem to be the most reliable and easy to design for solution so I went with that.
The turret and the cannon will be sitting in the flat spot on top where I've already left mounting holes.
As always I'm super thankful for your support and eager to read your comments. Thanks!!!
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I made a CNC router using mostly 3D printed parts that can cut metal! The machine uses a Makita router as the cutting tool and as I show in the video it can easily cut complex parts out of aluminium.
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I couldn't resist it and I made a Marble Music Machine. I 3D printed all the parts except the note drum out of resin and made the frame out of aluminium profiles. I designed and built this machine from scratch and I must admit it took probably three weeks more than I anticipated which is probably my worst time estimate for a project ever. This build is of course inspired by the MMX build by Martin from @Wintergatan and also @danielbruin and @matthiaswandel builds. If you liked this video and want me to go mental with this I'd love to go big so please leave a comment down below so I know.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Frame 02:21 Note drum 05:11 Altium 06:10 Marble droppers 08:51 Marble lift 10:06 Marble runs 13:42 Belts 15:39 Motor 17:06 Midi Pad 17:41 Final Test
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I made a hat that keeps me dry in the rain, I think we've been stuck in the umbrella ages for too long so I wanted to give it a go to improve it. It certainly can protect you from the rain although it is super loud and not very practical. Every time you see a test there's an hour of cleanup after as the only place where I could make fake rain was inside the shop. The hose was probably way more intense than any rain that we usually get here but as I was expecting the weather wasn't going to collaborate on this one. As always let me know what you think in the comments.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:44 MkI build 04:16 MkII build 05:46 Keeps 07:26 MkII test 08:49 MkIII build 9:21 Final test
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Somehow I got carried away by the comments in the last video and decided to sharpen my welding skills trying to rebuild the mill out of steel.
I remade the entire frame out of 40x40x2 steel box and TIG welded it using a technique called winging it. As a known side effect of this technique the frame is not square, straight, coplanar, or any of the required properties for the frame of a machine like this. I solved it by shimming almost everything on it with washers of different thicknesses and a lot of brute force. In the build of the aluminium one almost everything went perfect first try, in this build I had to wrestle with it a lot, way more than I'm capable to show in a single video. The machine is obviously more rigid than the aluminium one and after a lot of fiddling with it, it is surprisingly straight where it counts and seems to even be properly trammed.
As a bonus at the end of the video I decided to obliterate some aluminium and steel with the wrong dull bit and completely wrong feeds and speeds.
As always let me know what you think in the comments.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Preparing the parts 02:20 Welding the frame 04:47 Raid 06:37 Finishing the frame 07:07 XY Table 10:50 Z Axis turret 13:04 Final assembly 14:42 Testing3D PRINTED VERTICAL MACHINING CENTER FROM SCRATCHIvan Miranda2021-07-03 | Go to https://NordVPN.com/ivanmiranda and use code IVANMIRANDA to get a 2-year plan at a huge discount plus a free bonus. It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!
I've built a vertical machining centre or what some may call a CNC knee mill. It is mostly built out of 3D printed parts and aluminium profiles. I had to do an insane amount of cuts drills and taps on this build but I think the end result is very much worth it. Apart from the XYZ movement it has a lifting XY table that allows for very tall parts to fit in the work area and a tilting head to do weird chamfering and slotting jobs. The motors are Nema23 attached to some ball screws and MGN12 linear guides and blocks. I'm already aware that I should have protected the guides and the ball screws from the chips while milling. I'll try to add some covers in the future. It is way faster cutting through steel than my previous all metal CNC too so I'm pretty sure it'll come in handy for future projects. As always let me know your thoughts in the comments.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 Lifting table 02:41 XY Axis 04:21 NordVPN 05:29 XY Platform 07:42 Frame 09:00 Z Axis 09:47 Final assembly 11:39 The boring wiring 13:05 Moving and homing 14:12 TestingLARGE 3D PRINTED CNC FROM SCRATCHIvan Miranda2021-06-03 | For more information on the Flashforge Adventurer 4 go to flashforge.com/product-detail/64
I was in need of a large format CNC router so I made one. I designed all the 3D printed parts and structure in Fusion360 and then made all the cuts, holes and taps. The router is capable of cutting 10mm soft plywood really fast and I don't think I'll have any issues with any kind of wood cutting. It probably would be able to cut aluminium really slow too.
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I did this entire build just to make a 3D printer that can be shared so others can make their own. There's not a single unmodified part in this design, all the parts have been modified one way or the other. If you have any questions leave them down below and I'll try to answer them here and if suitable include them in the FAQ. ivanmiranda.com/pages/big-3d-printer-mkiv
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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 01:54 The base 03:36 The bridge 04:37 The bed 06:19 Smart TV for your smart TV 07:25 Bed Installation 10:35 The gantry 13:24 The carriage 14:47 Bed heater and surface 17:20 The hotend and extruder 18:24 The wiring 21:17 Print test 22:03 Printing a giant wrench
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I've built a working all terrain skateboard! This time I go to test it in real life conditions and it is awesome! Both front and back trucks are mostly 3D printed but this time I custom machined an aluminium plate to mount the motors so heat is dissipated better. I made a new board that is now the right width and a bit longer than last time and made two new chassis profiles and both worked perfectly as there are no collisions between the chassis/board and the two trucks even when going through rough terrain. Each truck has is own motor/VESC/battery and there's a wire that brings the RC receiver signal from the front truck to the rear truck so both trucks move at the same time. I have no idea how fast it is, not a lot but in the other hand I felt no loss of speed at any climb rate, I know it does not show on camera but some of those hills were pretty steep. I feel like it would have made no difference if four people were standing on it when going uphill. I was running the motor with 24V but it can go up to 48V and the ESC was running on BLDC mode with all sensors and limited to 60A but it can go 100A no problem so It could be a good idea to go for less reduction. I also have the speed limited in the VESC configuration so it does not explode, let's not forget that all of it is 3D printed PLA and if pushed hard it will disintegrate. This project is not over, I want to make it faster and probably I want to ditch the 3D printed plastic for something more reliable in the long run as this is becoming more and more a sport I want to practice. All terrain skateboarding to the olympics!!
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I finally did what everyone was asking for, I machined all the parts of the 3D printed CNC out of aluminium. I used both 10 mm and 6 mm flat stock to machine all the mechanical parts and then I used a lot of elbow grease to make the borders nicer. Drilled and taped al the holes by hand but I positioned them with small marks made with the CNC. Before the change was very difficult to make the walls cut by the bit perfectly vertical because of the flex of the entire structure. After the modification the walls are perfectly vertical as far as I can tell. I also reinforced the Y axis rail beams with two more vertical posts on each side and swapped the bridge aluminium beams for steel ones. An extra benefit of this change is that I can push the motors a little bit further now as the aluminium brackets help a lot with heat dissipation were the 3D printed parts melted. There are a few improvements that still can be made, like the vacuum hood which now sits too high and does almost nothing but this is now a machine that performs extremely well for my needs. Now let's thing of things that I can make with this machine or projects that I can bring back for a more metallic finish ;) Leave your ideas in the comments and I'll see what I can do.
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As an exercise to hon my machining skills and to fill a gap in my 3D printer farm I decided to machine all the parts for a new 3D printer out of aluminium. It has been very rewarding and I learned a lot, I'm confident now that I can set up a job for any part I want.
The Z axis motor brackets were the first ones I tried and it shows, very bad cuts but useful parts. I was using a thicker plate and different alloy and that gave me a few headaches.
I started the build with the intention of using an SKR 1.4 turbo electronics, and you can see that I even installed it on the printer but once I got to the point of modifying the firmware I saw that it was going to take another month alone to learn how to do it properly so I went and grabbed a ramps 1.4 that I had lying around as I can configure those in a breeze. As a result I had to remove one of the Z axis switches but it all worked well in the end so I'll keep the ramps in there.
I had to make a few changes along the way like the X axis belt tensioner but I couldn't show all of them or this video would have been 3 days long.
I hope you enjoy the video as much as I did enjoy making it!!
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I've built a tank skateboard! it turns like a regular skateboard but has tank treads as wheels. The front and back wheels have been 3D printed with PLA but the motor mounts have been created as separate parts as I'm planning on making those out of aluminium with my 3D printed CNC: youtube.com/watch?v=_atw3e0nIrg
I still need to make a few improvements to this version: 1.- Make the entire thing narrower, I'll use the prototype you can see in the video to figure out what are the actual clearances required and remove all unnecessary lengths throughout the skateboard to bring it down to a minimum, I know, I know, it is suuuuperwide right now.
2.- Improve the holes on the wheels sideplates so they adjust better to the real path the steel bars make through them, I made a template in a previous video to make those as precise as possible but I made so many changes in the design after that that it is far from perfect now.
3.- Improve the belt tensioning mechanism, tensioning the belt by pulling the motor before fastening it does not provide enough tension in the belt as the belt is quite rigid and I cannot stretch it enough with my hand.
And of course any other improvements that you convince me make in the comments so bring'em on!!
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I made a sand drawing robot with 50 miniature servos and a two half tanks, I use an Arduino Mega 2560 to read from an sd card a text file with the desired image and send the servo position data to another two Arduino Mega that then send the adequate signals to the servos. 5 DC to DC converters connected to a 6S LiPo battery provide enough power to support the stalling current of all the 50 servos at once. Two half tanks provide enough grip and torque to drag all the servos through the sand. The entire thing weighs around 14 Kg in working order (with the batteries on) so I had to build a tailor made trailer to cary the thing as there's quite a walking distance to the test field. I made another version a couple of years ago that can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=7T1esQgRwrM This new version draws way faster than the previous one but the older one had way more contrast, it is time to think on an MkIII As always leave your thoughts and questions in the comments.f you want to support this channel you can do it here:
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I've done another iteration of the big 3D printer, if you haven't seen the previous one, you can check it out here:
After printing around 2000 hours working on a secret project I've found a few things wrong with the previous design and I decided to do another iteration to improve the design. Amongst the things I wanted to improve:
Reliability of the bed moving mechanism, wheels on the sides would work great for a small bed but this one was way too big an heavy so I switched to top rolling wheels.
Weight of the bed: The bed was too heavy so I designed a new bed levelling system based on eccentric nuts that removes the need for a second platform because this one levels straight on the wheels. Pretty happy with this one. I already saved 1.8 Kg but I may go from 5 mm mirror to 3 mm mirror just to see if it holds up and I can shed a bit more weight (probably another 1.5Kg. I may add two extra motors on the Y axis just to divide the power transfer to 4 belts instead of 2 reducing even more the effect of the belts stretching.
Rigidity of the carriage/nozzle assembly: The X axis beam was too flimsy and not very resistant to torsion, I added a second beam and now is as rigid as I need.
Rigidity of the printer base: The base was too flimsy and was as flat as the surface it was sitting on, now with the two extra beams in the bottom and the braces to the top part is way more rigid and also even if the printer twists the bed will twist with it keeping the bed level.
As always leave your feedback in the comments, anything I should improve? Anything I should try?
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This is the world fastest toy train of this size (as far as I know) reaching a scale speed of 485 Kmph. The track gauge is 66,5 mm compared to the 1435 mm of the French TGV, so it is faster than the TGV when it is carrying passengers. The entire track is banked at 45º which gave me some issues on the straights but I wanted to avoid the jumping that would occur if the banking transition was too sudden. Making the track was a challenge on itself and making those straights straight took way too longer than expected. I ended up using rope to set a straight path to follow when laying down the track brackets and of course I hot glued everything to the shop floor. The biggest limitation with this setup is that in the straights the train keeps derailing because the banking is too high so I'm already thinking of the next iteration because I won't stop until I need to make a shield to protect me during testing. If you have any knowledge of any real toy train record please let me know in the comments.
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Hi everyone! I made an RC 3D printed mini tank. It is an amazing toy for the shop but it is designed to be used outside, on the sand and dirt. I cannot wait to test it outside. The entire tank has been printed in PLA including the GT 2 big pulley inside. The Pulleys and sprockets are press fitted into the M8 rods which works incredibly well. I developed a new method to install the pins in the tracks that requires no tools and no extra parts, just a single piece of filament, a real time saver. It took a while to design this one as I wanted to publish the files so If you want to make your own go to my website:
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It works!! I'm making an electric tank skateboard and on this video I show how I make one of the trucks, this is the most difficult and important part of the entire project, that's why I'm so happy I succeeded on making one work. I'll finish the other one off camera (unless some incredible discovery) and on the next episode of this series we will be working on the entire skateboard. The idea for this video comes from this video youtu.be/cN-5szFyyrg from @JohnHill that I saw a long time ago. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments and I'll try to read all of them.
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It works! The 3D Printed CNC MkII is finished and it works beautifully. I made a test cut for an HTD5M 100 tooth gear in less than 45 minutes in 6mm aluminium plate and it was perfect!! Imagine what can we do with this!!! Incredibly I did not break a single bit during the making on this video, I invested quite some time with that poplar soft plywood refining the process and I go quite good at it (as good as to not break bits).
As you may remember there was a previous version of this that ended up becoming a donor in a "part" emergency. This revised version is easier to assemble, more refined and can be printed in smaller printers.
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