3D printed DC-15a

[Bally]

After a bit of FB messaging with April Storm about her Wombot 3D printer, I bit the bullet and ordered one.

Tuesday was brown box day of a different kind:



Which, once I cleaned up the metric #####-ton of polystyrene peanuts, revealed this:



Due to having a little bit of experience with 3D printers up until now I jumped straight to ABS with a couple of small pieces to test it out. Aaaaand had the standard 'ABS not sticking to the print-bed' problem straight away. A glue stick helped get through the first tiny little print well enough, but I'm going to be looking for something better if I want to be using ABS as the standard material.

Also it's pretty much a pre-assembled kit using open-source firmware, a number of 3D printed parts, etc so I wouldn't recommend it for your first foray into 3D printing as the learning curve would be steep.

Once I get it printing reliably I'll finish off the last couple of parts for the DC-15a.