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MN 3D Printers

2019-08-13T17:42:16Z

LarryG:

==Filament==
Filament is NOT included in the membership fee.

We have a limited amount of donated filament that you can use. If you make big parts or a lot of small parts, then you should bring your own spool(s) of filament. You might consider buying an extra spool and donating it to the common supply.

If you are purchasing ESun PLA+ printer filament we recommend buying the refills, we have plenty of extra spools available.

Currently all of the 3D Printers owned by Maker Nexus use '''1.75mm''' filament.

==Specific Models==

*[[HIC_Prusa_I3|HIC_Prusa_I3]]

*[[HIC_Prusa_M2|Prusa M2]]

*[[MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer]]

==General Info==

===Big ball of plastic on the extruder of Prusa===

A large ball of plastic attached itself to the nozzle and heat block, and in removal, the wires for the thermistor were damaged. To clean up an issue like that, don't try to remove the plastic while it is cold, you will break things every time. Typically, first thing to do is to remove the filament through a normal filament unload (preheat the nozzle ONLY - no need to preheat bed & unload filament). Then, raise the z axis so you have plenty of room to access the ball'o'plastic. Bring the nozzle temperature up to 30-40 degrees over your printing temperature. Be careful, this is obviously going to have hot plastic all over the place, and it sticks to skin. Wear gloves, use tools, do not try to grab plastic with your bare hand!!!

Once the hot end is at temperature, slowly begin pulling out loose plastic. What is contacting the hot end will get molten. Start scooping/pulling it out, push more plastic against the hot end, repeat. Be very careful of the wires attached to the hot end. There will be two sets, one for the heater cartridge, one for the thermistor. If you damage either, you'll be replacing them. Work the plastic blob into contact with the hot end until it starts to soften (as a blob). You can then try to start working larger chunks free, but again, don't force it, the wrapping for the thermistor, in particular, likes to bond to melted filament because it is a woven wrap. Some time and heat will free up the hot end. Once the majority is gone, cleaning up with a coarse paper towel that won't leave towel fibers is fairly easy. Again, it's HOT, be careful.

So that's what you do if you're at home, if it's one of our printers, ask for staff!

Typically, a failure like this is a first layer adhesion issue. If it failed after the first layer, there are a lot of potential causes.
A good takeaway though: get a staff member to deal with it. There are specific ways to clean that up, but if you do it wrong, you'll break wires. In this case, we lost a $9 thermistor. Not a big deal.

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Maker Spaces In San Francisco area

2018-05-28T03:51:36Z

LarryG:

=Resources=
We have assembled a great list of resources to help you work now that TechShop is gone. Below are maker spaces that you might consider using.

We also have a page of [[Businesses offering paid services (SF Bay Area)]] at a discount to ex-TS members.

If you need a job in the maker community of SF... [https://sfmade.org/services/job-seeker/job-listings/ SFMade Job Board]

There are some [[businesses offering discounts]] to TS members.

=On Peninsula=
* [[Foster City Library]]
* [[Foothill College Makerspace]] - Office enviroment. Helix laser cutter. Several 3D printers. Software on computers. Dremel CNC machines.
* [[Studio for Metropolitan Craft]] Willing to share his Trotec laser.
* [[South San Francisco Public Library]] - 3D printers, sewing, Arduino

=Greater Bay Area=
* [http://www.chimeraarts.org/ Chimera] - Sebastopol. Small hobbyist space.
* [https://santacruz.ideafablabs.com/ Idea Fab Labs] - Santa Cruz
* [https://www.thecybergarage.com/our-story/ Cyber Garage] - Marin. K-12 focus.
* [https://www.cabrillo.edu/services/extension/makerspace.html Cabrillo College maker space] - Aptos

=SF City=
* [[Noisebridge]] - SF. Open to public. Run as a consensus organization.
* [[Sheet Metal Alchemist]] - Will rent Epilog laser for $15/hour
* [[Box Shop SF]] - sheet metal and sculpture artists
* [[ManyLabs]] - Co-working space
* [[T8 Fab]] - 3D printing and CNC router
* [[FabLab SF]] - A bit of a mystery
* [[TheShop.build]] - A new big shop in SF opening in the old TSSF location.

=East Bay=
* [[The Crucible ]] - Metalworking
* [[Ace Monster Toys]]
* [http://portworkspaces.com/special-techshop-offer/ Port Workspaces] - shared office space, but they are starting a maker space
* [[The Compound Gallery]]
* [[Department of Spontaneous Combustion]] - TIG, MIG, bandsaws
* [[Lower 48]] - small wood shop
* [https://mothership.hackermoms.org/ Mothership Hacker Moms] - Berkeley
* [[Circuit Launch]] - electronics, Berkeley
* [[Sudo Room]] - hackerspace

=South Bay=
* [[Hacker Dojo]] - Santa Clara. One laser, one 3D printer. Small woodshop tools. Considering growing.
* [[Santa Clara Adult Education woodshop]] - Big woodshop. 336 Lafayette St, Santa Clara, CA 95050
* [http://www.schoolofvisualphilosophy.com/ School of Visual Philosophy] - 425 Auzerais, 95126. An office with cnc machines in it.
* [[Coyote Grange]] - South San Jose community room, summer maker classes. Wants to increase the program.
* [http://www.sjcc.edu/academics/departments-divisions/machine-technology San Jose City College Machine Technology Department] - Isai Ulate, MBA/HRM, Machine Technology Instructor San Jose City College, 2100 Moorpark Ave, Ca 95128 Isai.ulate@sjcc.edu 408-298-2181 Ext 3836

=Groups Working to Create New Places Near By=
* [http://makernexus.com Maker Nexus]. We also have information '''[[Maker Nexus Makerspace|in this wiki]]'''.
* [http://www.enclaveworkshop.com/ The Enclave]
* Maker Dojo
* A group is working to start a professional machinist co-op
* [http://theshop.build TheShop.build]
* [[LVL Up]]

== Networking Groups of Makers locally ==
* [https://www.meetup.com/Cupertinker-Space Cupertinker]
* [https://www.meetup.com/techiefamilies/ Techie/Maker Families]
* [https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SBMetal/info South Bay Metal Worker Hobbyists]
* [https://groups.google.com/group/hbrobotics HomeBrew Robotics]
* [https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112974120022463718222 Bay Area Maker Educators]
* [https://www.meetup.com/TechshopSJ/ TechShop San Jose Meetup]
* [https://www.meetup.com/TechShopSanFrancisco/ TechShop San Francisco Meetup]
* [https://www.meetup.com/tsmidpeninsula/ TechShop MidPeninsula Meetup]

[[Category:Makerspace]]

Maker Spaces In San Francisco area

2018-05-28T03:50:43Z

LarryG: TechShop 2.0 —> theshop.build

=Resources=
We have assembled a great list of resources to help you work now that TechShop is gone. Below are maker spaces that you might consider using.

We also have a page of [[Businesses offering paid services (SF Bay Area)]] at a discount to ex-TS members.

If you need a job in the maker community of SF... [https://sfmade.org/services/job-seeker/job-listings/ SFMade Job Board]

There are some [[businesses offering discounts]] to TS members.

=On Peninsula=
* [[Foster City Library]]
* [[Foothill College Makerspace]] - Office enviroment. Helix laser cutter. Several 3D printers. Software on computers. Dremel CNC machines.
* [[Studio for Metropolitan Craft]] Willing to share his Trotec laser.
* [[South San Francisco Public Library]] - 3D printers, sewing, Arduino

=Greater Bay Area=
* [http://www.chimeraarts.org/ Chimera] - Sebastopol. Small hobbyist space.
* [https://santacruz.ideafablabs.com/ Idea Fab Labs] - Santa Cruz
* [https://www.thecybergarage.com/our-story/ Cyber Garage] - Marin. K-12 focus.
* [https://www.cabrillo.edu/services/extension/makerspace.html Cabrillo College maker space] - Aptos

=SF City=
* [[Noisebridge]] - SF. Open to public. Run as a consensus organization.
* [[Sheet Metal Alchemist]] - Will rent Epilog laser for $15/hour
* [[Box Shop SF]] - sheet metal and sculpture artists
* [[ManyLabs]] - Co-working space
* [[T8 Fab]] - 3D printing and CNC router
* [[FabLab SF]] - A bit of a mystery
* [[TheShop.build]] - A new big shop in SF opening in the old TSSF location.

=East Bay=
* [[The Crucible ]] - Metalworking
* [[Ace Monster Toys]]
* [http://portworkspaces.com/special-techshop-offer/ Port Workspaces] - shared office space, but they are starting a maker space
* [[The Compound Gallery]]
* [[Department of Spontaneous Combustion]] - TIG, MIG, bandsaws
* [[Lower 48]] - small wood shop
* [https://mothership.hackermoms.org/ Mothership Hacker Moms] - Berkeley
* [[Circuit Launch]] - electronics, Berkeley
* [[Sudo Room]] - hackerspace

=South Bay=
* [[Hacker Dojo]] - Santa Clara. One laser, one 3D printer. Small woodshop tools. Considering growing.
* [[Santa Clara Adult Education woodshop]] - Big woodshop. 336 Lafayette St, Santa Clara, CA 95050
* [http://www.schoolofvisualphilosophy.com/ School of Visual Philosophy] - 425 Auzerais, 95126. An office with cnc machines in it.
* [[Coyote Grange]] - South San Jose community room, summer maker classes. Wants to increase the program.
* [http://www.sjcc.edu/academics/departments-divisions/machine-technology San Jose City College Machine Technology Department] - Isai Ulate, MBA/HRM, Machine Technology Instructor San Jose City College, 2100 Moorpark Ave, Ca 95128 Isai.ulate@sjcc.edu 408-298-2181 Ext 3836

=Groups Working to Create New Places Near By=
* [http://makernexus.com Maker Nexus]. We also have information '''[[Maker Nexus Makerspace|in this wiki]]'''.
* [http://www.enclaveworkshop.com/ The Enclave]
* Maker Dojo
* A group is working to start a professional machinist co-op
* [http://the shop.build YheShop.build]
* [[LVL Up]]

== Networking Groups of Makers locally ==
* [https://www.meetup.com/Cupertinker-Space Cupertinker]
* [https://www.meetup.com/techiefamilies/ Techie/Maker Families]
* [https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SBMetal/info South Bay Metal Worker Hobbyists]
* [https://groups.google.com/group/hbrobotics HomeBrew Robotics]
* [https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112974120022463718222 Bay Area Maker Educators]
* [https://www.meetup.com/TechshopSJ/ TechShop San Jose Meetup]
* [https://www.meetup.com/TechShopSanFrancisco/ TechShop San Francisco Meetup]
* [https://www.meetup.com/tsmidpeninsula/ TechShop MidPeninsula Meetup]

[[Category:Makerspace]]

Projects/Members

2018-02-22T19:02:40Z

LarryG:

= Wiki Member Links =

We don't want to host a ton of photos here. Instead this is a place to put a link or two out to places where you maintain some images...

== Jim Schrempp ==

*[http://www.shrimpware.com Shrimpware] is the high level entry to all my maker stuff.
*[http://www.jimschrempp.com/about_me/maker_jim.htm My personal site] has a page with photos and explanations of projects.
*I have several [http://www.instructables.com/member/jschrempp/ Instructables] - including one that won second place!

== Larry Gallagher ==

I have a [https://photos.app.goo.gl/N0JcrtXJuWWa9HnK2 Google Photo gallery] of my woodworking projects. Many were made in a home shop, others at various maker spaces in the Bay Area.