The past three months have been super busy with the renovations to the new house and looking after our new baby. The business has been put on hold since it made more sense financially for me to be working on the house. Now that the move has happened the new workshop is slated for some […]
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This week we have only a small update since renovations to the new house are taking up most of our time. Something I’ve been interested in personally is recycling wasted filament from failed prints and support material. I thought I’d share some of the options available and what others have been doing. I found this
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The first job that I did as Lannix design was back in 2019 for a friend who is a property developer on the Sunshine Coast. He was after an architectural model of his latest project. I was excited and enthusiastic to do it since I really enjoyed scale modelling in the past and it gave
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This is it! The final installment of our Prusa i3 MK3S+ build guide. All that’s left to do is plug in all the cables and run some calibrations and the 3D printer will be ready for action. A video version of the build guide is linked below on our YouTube channel. Many have trouble with
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If you’ve been following our Prusa build guide, no doubt you’ve been hanging on the edge of your seat waiting for our next installment. The long awaited wiring guide is now here. Use this guide in conjunction with your included Prusa MK3S+ guide to build yourself an nifty 3D printer. This installment only deals with
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This was an interesting job I did a few years ago that I thought I’d share. I met a guy who had just acquired an AW11 Toyota MR2 that already had a turbo conversion. He planned to use it for rally racing and wanted to upgrade the existing turbo to a larger unit. The problem
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Once in a while everyone who uses a 3D printer will be faced with a clogged nozzle. It’s frustrating when you come back to a finished print and the top of your model is missing but it is a pretty simple process to unclog and start again. Before going into the treatment, let’s touch on
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The idea to reuse empty filament spools as parts storage isn’t new. When I first started 3D printing I recall seeing that people had made curved containers that fit within a spool and thought that was a nifty idea. I’d always thought I’d make one for myself once I had a few empty spools laying
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Before I started my engineering degree, 3D modelling and Computer Aided Design (CAD) seemed like a daunting skill to learn. Despite that, I was determined to get hold of some software and learn how to apply the mathematical knowledge I was acquiring in class. It was during the first semester that I joined up with
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If you’ve read our previous blog entry on making parts for this car, you’ll know how I feel about the price of its replacement parts. Our customer isn’t a fan either so he’s commissioned us to create more parts for him. The air filters are past their use by date so the idea was to
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