Ben's Tech Stop

Summary & Purpose In the Advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) class I needed to decide on a final project. I thought about...

Interestingly enough, the last blog on the educational tools is the first that people will read. And this was by design, rather than...

Infill percentage controls the plastic to air ratio inside of a print. For instance, 0% infill means that there is 100% air inside of a...

Slicers have several types of infill, with different purposes for each style. I will cover each of the primary styles available, and...

When setting up a print in a slicer, layer height can be key for several different instances. I touch on it in the overhangs post. You...

Supports are meant to be temporary, but they can be a bit of a pain to remove. If there isn't enough distance between the top or bottom,...

Bridging is the process of extruding a string of plastic over a gap. Typically it is across two points, in a straight line. Several...

Of course, I am quite familiar with these terms, and how the affect printed objects. Even so, they taught me a bit more about printing....

When I first bought my Robo3D R1+, I had only dreamed of putting together a printer. Two years later, I purchased the Folgertech FT-5 R2,...