I throw no stones, having (allegedly) performed similar feats of planning and (amateur) engineering.
Edit: Not to say that their engineering is amateurish, but rather my small forays into the field is what I meant.
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I designed a new arm that I hope will make it easier to open and shut the sides of my SimBox.
I printed it in 0.12mm layer height with Bambu Labs carbon fibre infused PLA.
The arm is 31x3x1,5cm and took 2:04 hrs to print.
Here condensed to a 7s timelapse. Ok, perhaps not the most exciting part to do a timelapse of, but it’s my first 
The part came out nice! Very rigid and a very nice print quality. Some smaller artifacs can be found in the top layer and some small seam blobs, where the printer shifts layer. The part stuck to the build plate perfectly!
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Did some more printing.
I actually have a rather fun project that has nothing to do with flying or flightsims…
My sister is a police crime scene investigator. They have this incredibly expensive lamp, designed to light up the floor from a low angle. Everybody who ever used a flashlight on the floor, to look for a lost contact lens, knows how that works. This light does that x100. It has got an extension handle that clips onto the light with a regular MAGlite clip…that snaps off every now and then.
ConTrollR, to the rescue…wherever an overengineered solution is totally unwarranted.
A slide mount that won’t let go of the lamp, unless the plunger is pulled. And it certainly won’t break!
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My daughter love Nike shoes… I found this cool little shoe key ring pendant and printed it in 0.08mm resolution.
This is one impressive printer!
Look at those laces!
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I’ve had my X1C for a year now.
I have no regrets! It’s a great printer!
One thing that they could’ve done better is the lighting inside the enclosure. It’s just not enough.
Being able to see and spot issues with the prints and being able to stop the printer remotely, is a nice feature. Just watching the prints grow inside is also quite cool.
Anyway, a Dutch guy have made a cool LED light controller for Bambu Labs printers. It’s basically a smarthome lighting switch that picks up on the printers network and adjusts the lights of a regular LED strip, that you mount on a spacer at the top of the printer.
In addition to provide more light during printing, it can also turn the lights red if the printer sends an error message or green when the print is finished.
Highly recommended!
With just the original lamp
With the BLLED
Finished!
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That’s awesome! I bought an X1C and AMS a few months ago. I’m very impressed. It just plain works.
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I was intrigued by these effect build plates, and just had to try them out…
Modern 3D printers lay down a very smooth first layer. Anything on your build plate will imprint itself onto the first layer that’s printed on it. Fingerprints, marks from earlier prints, etc.
The market has capitalized on this and have created build plates with patterns…
The one on the left is called Galaxy and the one on the right is…yes, you guessed it! Carbon fibre.
The Galaxy one is interesting as it is holographic. The colors you see only appears at an angle and shifts with the viewing angle. From what I understand this is simply due to extremely small variations in the build plate surface. If printed with a silky or glossy plastic, it will pick up these variations.
The plate with the carbon fibre pattern doesn’t shift color. I guess this is because of the matte surface and uniform pattern? Anybody know the optics behind this, please elaborate!
As I had a suitable project. I decided to test the CF plate…
I downloaded a ready made 3D model of a Stream Deck XL cover, and printed it.
Fits perfectly!
Looks really cool too…
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nice texture
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Love this… Taking a flaw and making it a feature. 
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Really cool!
I’ve used the textured build plate on my Prusa to good effect, but never considered a carbon fiber, how neat!
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