An anatomically correct IoT powered dog doll for disease simulation and stethoscopy training.

The more I started to inspect the body, the more I realized it was very far gone. With a full restoration being incredibly hard, time and money consuming, I decided to lean into the roughed up look by mounting some vintage truck air horns on the roof!

I recently invested in a Snapmaker U1, a toolchanger 3D printer with 4 independent toolheads. This opens up a lot of possibilities in terms of multicolor and multimaterial printing!

As I’m currently living in the smaller bedroom of a 2 bedroom appartment, I need to use my space as efficiently as possible. To utilize the lost space between my desk and the wall, I decided to print all sorts of brackets mounting different tools and objects.

Upon close inspection, the factory rubber bushings showed signs of cracking and deformation. I decided this was a great opportunity to get familiar with my new to me Revopoint 3D scanners.

Rubber gets hard and brittle with age, and since there’s no new parts available I’ve resorted to printing them myself out of TPU!

My friend Pieter-Jan from DAP Warandepoort was just starting out as a veterinarian and was gifted his grandmother’s old Peugeot to use as his runaround. He made a custom cabinet to fit in the back and tasked me with designing a partitioning system for the shelves.

As my designs improved and I found new use cases for 3D printing, I started running into scenarios where I wanted to incorporate more engineering grade materials.

The Creality K1C features numerous upgrades to make printing these exotic materials possible.

After heavily modifying my Anet A8, I decided I needed a new reliable workhorse. Little did I know it would turn into a massive project as well…

During my studies at Odisee, 3D printing was making a lot of advancements and became more accessible than ever. To get us familiar with the technology, we were assigned with making a moving mechanism. I decided to model mine after a Strandbeest.

This post details how I upgraded my first ever 3D printer, an Anet A8, into a CoreXY printer.