Friday, 26 July 2019

Blast from the Past: The Monster

As part of preparing an OpenSCAD class, I wanted to show what my old printer (nicknamed "The Monster" in FabLab) looked like. Apparently I had never posted that on this blog, so it's about time. Here's the amazing almost-but-never-quite-working McWire "The Monster" printer:


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