2012-10-10 15:52 by Jonathan Buford

#MakiBox Midweek Glimpse - Gearing Up!

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What's that you say? You think the MakiBox could use some huge, tough looking gears? Well, we are working on just that right now.

 We are trying some variations of nozzles which have helped us to reduce the running temp and the backpressure in the system, and now we are building a gearbox to assist the mechanism. In parallel, we are working on the feedback electronics so that we can make the flow nice and smooth and operate ninja quiet (or at least not be annoying). 

For those that have a hankering to chat a bit, we will host another Hangout on Air at this time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=MakiBox+Hangout&iso=20121013T12&p1=102&ah=1 Saturday early for some, late Friday for others. We will have more coming up at different times for those that can't make it live, and it will be on Air, so would be available later on the YouTube.

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2012-10-08 15:59 by Michael Tsang

#MakiBox A6 Update - G+ Crosspost

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This time you will have to hop to G+ to check out the Update Awesomnes - because lately Posterous & our DNS don't go together :(

G+ Pellet Extruder Filament Output

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2012-10-03 16:16 by Jonathan Buford

#MakiBox A6 Midweek Glimpse - It's a Barrel of Fun Here

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This week is turning out to be a good one so far with steady progress on all fronts. We should have some good stuff to share at the end of the week.

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2012-09-30 16:20 by Jonathan Buford

#MakiBox A6 Weekly Update - Openly Busy

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This has been a very busy week, but it is one of those that is difficult to show the results of that work in the current state.

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2012-09-26 16:51 by Jonathan Buford

#MakiBox A6 Midweek Update - Finding The Drive

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We are continuing our grind on tweaking the drive and generally seeing more and more consistent results from it.

 In general, things are really starting to get a nice buzz here in the lab, and I think everyone is seeing things heading towards wrapping up.

Our end of the week update will likely be on sometime during the weekend, depending on how things progress tomorrow.

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