[Lab] Can you 3D print for me?

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

Though the wheel you sent looks good.  I am assuming the measurements are in mm?

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds




On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
<jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great thanks,  Ill take a stab at it.  If google sketch up exported to
> stl could I use that?
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> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby
> <themumbys at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have taken the liberty to whip up a quick "Wheel Generator" in OpenSCAD...
>> Probably doesn't rival something that Andrew Plumb would put out ;) but it
>> should get the job done...
>> It's set for higher precision circles, and lets you tune all the parameters
>> you like to make a nice wheel...
>> Just download OpenSCAD from http://www.openscad.org/ (scroll down to the
>> releases page, I'm using the windows version just extracted the zip and ran
>> from the folder).
>> then open up my script (attached) at the top there are several lines of
>> parameters you can change about the wheel. When done tweaking, hit F5 to
>> render it and see what it looks like... you can revise as much as you like
>> and keep hitting F5 to re-render.
>> When done just send the scad file back to me and I can render it out to an
>> STL and print from that.
>> Or if you wish you can hit F6 to render CGAL, then go to the design menu,
>> and export as STL, and most people should be able to print from that, or cut
>> it on a CNC I would imagine.
>> Let me know if you want me to print it. I believe I might have enough
>> plastic on the UP (more coming Friday I believe) and I hope to have my
>> reprap back in working order by tomorrow (and it has tons of plastic lol)
>> - Paul
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
>> <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Paul/Andrea its much appreciated.
>>>
>>> I have attached a google sketch up of what I was hopping to have or
>>> similar.  the wheel does not seem to be as round as i would like.
>>>
>>> the inner circle part is 5.5mm wide and 4mm high.  The rest are just
>>> approximate  10 cm diameter wheel 1 cm thick (to put an elastic on it)
>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> I don;t really thin 10 cm will be too big.  I think the motors are
>>> powerful enough.
>>>
>>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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>>> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
>>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Paul & Andrea Mumby
>>> <themumbys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I am sure we could work something out. If you send me specs and
>>> > measurements
>>> > and perhaps a rough sketch i could likely do the design work too if you
>>> > have
>>> > trouble
>>> >
>>> > On 2011-04-11 9:48 AM, "Jean-Marc LeBlanc" <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Hi
>>> >> I am building a robot for the ORE_bit life folower, I bought this
>>> >> base, and the wheel a gear up a little too much I find and its a
>>> >> little slow. So I though I could make bigger wheels.
>>> >> Does any one think If i made a google sketch up of the wheels and pay
>>> >> for the plastic, they could print some for me?
>>> >>
>>> >> I have never sketched any thing for 3d printing and have limited
>>> >> experience with google sketch up though.
>>> >>
>>> >> Also I was thinking if this works well maybe I could print a custom
>>> >> frame for it?
>>> >>
>>> >> thanks,
>>> >> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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>>> >> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
>>> >> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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