Projects.

Just some things I have planned to do for the next few months years decades...

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Assembling the toolhead for the Voron 2.4.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas

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Building the Flying Gantry Voron

Building another Voron... The Voron 2.4 with it's flying gantry.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Building a 8 channel Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder V2.0

Building an Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder to print using multiple colours of filament on the Voron.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Macro Keyboard based on the Raspberry Pi Pico

A 3D printed macro keyboard based on the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Accessories for the 3D Sets Landy

Printing Upgrades and Accessories for the 3D Sets Landy.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing a Sanctuary Hills House from Fallout 4

Building a House in Sanctuary Hills for the Sole Survivor.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Building a DIY Eurorack Modular Synth

Building a Eurorack Modular Synthesizer from scratch.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Creating a solar powered weather station

I won an auction on ebay and there were 3 Wifi Weather Station PCBs and some other components in the lot, let's order the rest of the parts and assemble them.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Single Board Computers and Microcontrollers

This page lists all of the single board computers I own and is mainly for me to keep track of what I have and what I am currently using it for.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Assembling the smallest Voron printer

Printing parts to build and assemble the smallest of the Voron 3D printers, the Voron 0.2.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Creating a Printed Circuit Board to control fans in Klipper

Making a Raspberry Pi Hat based on the Klipper Expander, to control additional fans using the Pi as a Secondary MCU in Klipper Firmware, the Klipper Fan Hat.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Making 3D Printer Filament from Empty Plastic Bottles

Sourcing and printing parts to assemble a Polyformer to make my own filament from empty plastic drinks bottles.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing the Rook, a cheap CoreXY 3D Printer

Sourcing and printing parts to 3D print and assemble a cheap CoreXY 3D Printer, the Rook 2020 MK2.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D LabPrint Piper Cub RC Aeroplane

Sourcing parts for a 3D Lab Print Piper Cub remote control airplane!

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Sets Landy 4x4 Pickup

Sourcing parts for a Land Rover inspired remote control car, the 3D Sets Landy!

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Upgrading the Anet A8 to an AM8 Switchwire

The AM8 is a drop in replacement for the frame on the Anet A8. However I will be upgrading to a metal frame with CoreXZ kinematics using the AM8 Switchwire Mod.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Voron 1.8 Modifications and Upgrades

List of upgrades that I plan on adding from the printer mods directory of the Voron Users repository.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Assembling a Nevermore Filter

The Nevermore filters the encosure to reduce the smell of printing ABS.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Assembling the Voron AfterBurner Toolhead

AfterBurner the toolhead for the Voron 1.8.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Assembling the Voron M4 Extruder

M4 Extruders for Dual color printing on the Voron 1.8.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Building a 6 channel Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder V1.1

Re-building an Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder to print using multiple colours of filament on the AM8.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Building my first Voron printer

The steps I have taken to print and source parts to assemble a Voron 1.8 3D printer.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Upgrading my Anet A8 to a Hypercube

I had originally intended to migrate from the Anet A8's acrylic frame to a CoreXY Hypercube style printer. This was abandoned for building a Voron instead.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printer Filament

This is a list of 3D printer filament I have purchased over the years and how I have printed with it.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printer Hardware Upgrades

This page contains information about how I upgraded my Anet A8 to add various hardware mods including swapping out the control board to a BigTreeTech SKR 1.4.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing the Red Rocket Truck Stop

How I built the Red Rocket Truck Stop from Fallout 4.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Out of Marbles, Marble Machine

Printing a Marble Machine

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing the OpenRC Truggy

This is the logical advancement of the radio controlled OpenRC F1 car. It uses off the shelf metal parts in place of some of the original 3D printed ones.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing an FPV OpenRC Mini Quad

How I printed my OpenRC 220 FPV Mini Quad, Designed by Daniel Norée. Another jump into Radio Contolled vehicles, this time I want to fly!

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Digital and Film Cameras

The many cameras I have aquired over the years.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing an electric guitar

How I built an Electric Guitar with a 3D printed body from scratch.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printer Enclosure

Creating a 3D printer enclosure using 2 Ikea Lack tables.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing an OpenRC F1 radio controlled car

How I printed my OpenRC F1 car, Designed by Daniel Norée. This project was one of the main reasons I got into 3D printing in the first place.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Printed Toys and Knick Knacks

Small Toys and Knick Knacks that I have printed.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printing upgrades for a 3D printer

This project was to take a cheap 3D printer and make it better by upgrading components and 3D printing improved parts.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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3D Printer Failures

3D printing is not all plain sailing, sometimes things go wrong. The best thing about building a printer from scratch, is that you also know how to repair it.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Assembly of an Anet A8 3D printer

This project was to assemble my first 3D printer with the premise to eventually make it better by upgrading components and 3D printing improved parts.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas
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Adventures with Thinkpads

The many tinkerings with the internals of an X220 Thinkpad.

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas