Wheels – Milwaukee Makerspace https://milwaukeemakerspace.org Conceive, Collaborate, Create Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:16:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Milwaukee Maker Faire Preparations https://milwaukeemakerspace.org/2014/08/milwaukee-maker-faire-preparations/ https://milwaukeemakerspace.org/2014/08/milwaukee-maker-faire-preparations/#respond Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:46:09 +0000 http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/?p=7643 We’re planning on setting up a Nerdy Derby track at the upcoming Maker Faire Milwaukee so to that end we are preparing car parts.  We recently received a generous donation of filament from Inventables (thank you!) so MegaMax and others went right to work printing wheels for the Nerdy Derby cars.  The goal is to print 4000 (!) wheels before the Maker Faire.

A small batch-test run of twelve wheels

A small batch-test run of twelve wheels

 

Printing 40 whimsical wheels and once!

Starting a batch: printing 40 whimsical wheels and once!

6 hours later, almost done!

6 hours later, almost done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MegaMax printing 40 wheels in one go.  Go big or go home!

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Jason gets a little crazy with the building! (click for more hot photo action!)

 

Giant Arduino Board (1 of 2)

 

Flags!

Tom Testing the flags!

 

David

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