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THIS WEEBSITE

I felt inspired to create this primarily as a fun website, and secondarily as a personal blog.

FartBlaster9001 was created on September 30, 2023

This page and the media page, as well as some secrets, were added on October 1, 2023

3D PRINTER

Early 2023 I had a manic episode in which I became determined to make this. I don't know why.

Heres some of my progress on learning how to work with SLA resin printers:

This is my first print. This was the design I came up with early 2023. The 50mm sphere has 106 spaces for 8x8mm cube magnets, as well as a m10 fine 4mm thread. The supports were standard.

The thread was incorrectly made as the internal, the resin not properly mixed, and the magnets were only given .05mm clearance. The print was difficult to remove from the printing plate.

Interestingly you can observe the expansion/compression of the resin, as the clearer section has less pigment and rubberizer, leading to worse tolerances the more properly mixed resin as it goes on with the print, also reducing the brittleness of the material.

The print did not fail as the sphere was printed directly on the plate, which you can see on the clear side where the resin is built up around a thread.

This is my second print. I decided to change to 6x2mm disc magnets with m7 coarse 10mm threads on a 30mm sphere. The supports were rafted and bracing each other.

I used leftover resin from the previous run leading to an incredibly soft print that easily flexed, causing the print to stick to the print screen rather than the supports.

This is my third print. I retried the same print as last time, but with fresh resin.

The supports were not strong enough to overcome the suction from the print on the print screen, detaching the print at almost 80% completion.

The disc magnets did not fit as I needed to use m8 coarse threading.

This is my fourth print. The now 40mm sphere has m8 coarse 10mm threading. Supports were rafted and braced.

The supports were not strong enough to overcome the suction from the print on the print screen, detaching the print at almost 70% completion.

There is some difficulty editing the .stl file mesh in Lychee slicer to add supports. The threads do not make it easy to compute, leading to crashes, inability to automatically add supports, and slow progress.

This is my fifth print. I decided to use the leftover resin in the print bed to make a set of dice using premade files in order to diagnose my supports.

The process of removing the supports destroyed them so I wasnt able to get a good picture of them, but it used an incredible amount of small thin supports that were connected in a web.

The d12 was unable to print for some reason. The raft got stuck on the screen right after it finished, so I assume it did not properly adhere to a scratch on the print plate introduced by the scraper, and was suctioned to the screen.