In a quest to help organise the chaotic community, to follow on from the JGAurora wiki I’m pleased to be launching the unofficial JGAurora forum! A central place for the community to come together, to provide support and inspiration. The Unofficial JGAurora Forum
Breaking my new year resolution and it’s only feb… 😞 a new project! I have been finding that I was answering the same questions again and again, so I put together a website to act as a resource for people to read and be brought up to speed. I present… the (unofficial) JGAurora 3D printer … [Read more…]
NEW: Please see the JGAurora A5 wiki for up-to-date firmware & instructions! New year, new 3D printer! This one was kindly received for review from JGAurora. I do have an unboxing video here, but for the full review you’ll have to wait… but here’s something fun for the meantime 😀 In the mean time, … [Read more…]
Wow – time flies when you’re having fun…. I’ve now had this printer for over two and a half years now, so this is a short update of where things are at, and my perspective on the printer with the benefit of hindsight. Aside from the new buildplate, and the acrylic top enclosure, one of … [Read more…]
Let me start by saying that I have a passion for technology – some might classify it as a love, others might call it techno-lust, but whatever it is, I really enjoy new gadgets, and I especially enjoy learning about what makes them tick. From a young age I’ve been pulling things apart, and I … [Read more…]
I initially had an idea of writing a bridge from DMX to talk to the Yongnuo YN360 or YN360-II wand-lights, but for a few reasons I found that this would not work well, primarily due to the high latency in the connection. Instead, I’m publishing my code for talking to the YN360 using the BLE … [Read more…]
So one of my recent new toys professional purchases was a lightsaber photography light wand. More specifically, the Yongnuo YN360 (newer version YN360-II here ) This is a icelight clone, that in my opinion is significantly more flexible, offering white light with variable temperature control, as well as providing arbitary RGB lighting as well. Frankly, the light was … [Read more…]
One of the major issues with the JGAurora Z-603S (at the least the one I received in 2014…) was that the build plate had a signifiant amount of warp across the surface. I measured this warp to be about 0.2mm – this may not seem like much, but this is already up to 4 layer … [Read more…]
I have stopped playing pokemon go, but during the frenzy I managed to purchase a pokemon go plus. The design of the device is hideous, so I decided to design a 3D printable replacement casing for it that would be more subtle and would allow me to use regular watch-bands on the pokemon go plus. … [Read more…]
If you’re like me, and prefer to use millimetre measurement units (MMGS) in your favourite CAD program you’re going to have a very bad time in COMSOL. By default, COMSOL will assume that a imported DXF file uses meters (MGS). The result will be that your simulation runs fine, but you may find that “nothing happens” or the … [Read more…]