So now that I have my new Ender 3 3D printer. I have had to make several tools for myself. The first problem I ran into was the way the filament fed from above allowed it to get into the z axis worm screw, breaking the filament. so until i had a fix for this I had to un-spool a length of filament and having it drag a clamp across the floor to give it some tension. so i made this pulley:
and used it with a 2 x 4 cut to 1 foot length. i then glued a short piece I cut to widen and raise the pulley to a better position.
I added a magnet alarm sensor to detect if the spool had tangled. I have not added the alarm yet.
then I printed this camera mount it is back to go to the end of the X axis mechanism, I am using neodymium 5/ 8" x 1/4” magnets to hold everything together for easy modification.
Then I made a 1" x 3" piece of steel LED light and the camera itself. The LED I got by stripping this little flashlight I got from harbor freight ($1.69 each) and used a 5 Volt USB cord along with three 10Ω ¼W resistors in parallel to power it. Super glue held everything together on that front along with the magnets in the mount.
So then I had this:
Now I upload the .stl files.
and used it with a 2 x 4 cut to 1 foot length. i then glued a short piece I cut to widen and raise the pulley to a better position.
I added a magnet alarm sensor to detect if the spool had tangled. I have not added the alarm yet.
then I printed this camera mount it is back to go to the end of the X axis mechanism, I am using neodymium 5/ 8" x 1/4” magnets to hold everything together for easy modification.
Then I made a 1" x 3" piece of steel LED light and the camera itself. The LED I got by stripping this little flashlight I got from harbor freight ($1.69 each) and used a 5 Volt USB cord along with three 10Ω ¼W resistors in parallel to power it. Super glue held everything together on that front along with the magnets in the mount.
So then I had this:
Now I upload the .stl files.
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