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3D Printing

Battery Cover Design in FreeCAD 1.0
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After many years of using Fusion 360, I have started to learn FreeCAD to support open source options and to get around the 10 editable designs limit. In this post I walk through my learnings from the first project I finished with FreeCAD.
Initial calculations for a 3D Printed BGA Socket
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One of the more frustrating things when extracting flash memories is finding so many footprints that don’t have off the shelf sockets. In this post I go through some thoughts and calculations on what it would take to make a 3D printed socket for a BGA part.
My First Gridfinity Drawer (For Batteries)
·860 words·5 mins
Turning a pile of batteries into a neatly organized drawer.
One Week with the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon 3D Printer
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A summary of what I printed, my first impressions of 3D printing, and my general thoughts on the machine.