tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60436328035312394102024-03-13T07:53:12.883+01:00My EggBotMy experience and adventures with my EggBot printerkittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-492390974381494992020-04-08T13:43:00.000+02:002020-04-08T13:43:04.298+02:00Easter eggs 2015I already mentioned in my earlier post that I have printed many eggs in the last couple of days for Easter. Some were for friends and some for my family. I didn't want to post the pictures before Easter it might have ruined the surprise!<br />
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Here is my Easter collection for 2015:<br />
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.154509499999996 18.394787999999938 47.8413145 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-51327806188810679152015-04-01T09:23:00.000+02:002015-04-01T09:23:47.530+02:00Easter present: a pattern generator for everyoneMy husband made something amazing for the eggers again!<br />
He programmed a pattern generator that enables you to create triangle or square-based patterns. The output is an svg file that can be plotted on an egg.<br />
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Link to the generator: <a href="http://eggbot.cloudy.dyndns.org/">http://eggbot.cloudy.dyndns.org</a><br />
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The egg-pattern-generator has many parameters that can be set before generating the file. First you have to choose whether you want triangles or squares, then you can specify the size and number of the rows, if you want to have the shapes random sized or not. And many more tiny modifications... Have a look and create your own pattern!<br />
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I made a few eggs based on the generated designs:<br />
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com2Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.154509499999996 18.394787999999938 47.8413145 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-57382746710393878212015-03-31T12:55:00.000+02:002015-03-31T12:55:07.110+02:00New designs on ThingiverseDuring last weekend I printed sooo many eggs for Easter and finally finished some of my half-made designs.<br />
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I published three more designs on <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/k1ttk4/designs" target="_blank">Thingiverse</a> (links are under the pictures):<br />
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Happy Easter egg making for everyone! :)<br /><br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.154509499999996 18.394787999999938 47.8413145 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-40969830251655701952015-03-05T17:53:00.000+01:002015-03-05T17:53:00.244+01:00Various prints and a strange pen behaviour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Some more prints from a couple of days ago. They look very good, I only discovered a few slight problems with them. </div>
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The 3D cubes one is not perfect, but you can still see the 3D in it. </div>
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I made these 2 eggs just as an example that how easy is to make a new printable design in Inkscape. I used my <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:710061" target="_blank">Google men file</a> (now uploaded to Thingiverse) and the Hershey text extension.</div>
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During the printing of the 3D cubes I discovered a new anomaly. My ultra fine Sharpie pen became thicker by the end of the printing. Have you ever experienced anything similar?</div>
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-72157461331278807702015-03-03T11:08:00.000+01:002015-03-03T11:12:03.086+01:00Making of a new distal pen arm<i>Guest blog from tml</i><br />
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As you may already know, eggs are mainly drawn upon by using Sharpie pens. The pen holder piece of the EggBot is designed to hold ultra fine point Sharpie pens. This is quite a good decision as Sharpie pens are both cheap and available everywhere.... except for Hungary. We don't have them.<br />
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On our recent trip to London we checked out a stationery and were lucky enough to find a 24-pack of fine point Sharpie pens at a very discounted price. Their lines are not as thin as those of the ultra fines but Kitti thought that they were good for painting infills so we bought them.</div>
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Back in Budapest she tried using them, without much success; as it turned out, fine point Sharpie pens are somewhat thicker than the ultra find point pens, so they did not fit into the pen holder arm that came with the EggBot Deluxe kit, as seen on the picture below.<br />
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Fail. After taking a look at the pen arm I thought that drilling could help but I am not a big fan of destructive methods and drilling a larger hole would have made the pen arm for the ultra fine point Sharpie pens less ideal.</div>
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My next idea was that I just 3D print that particular part of the pen arm using my emaker Huxley 3D printer I have since 2011. </div>
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The pen holding piece of the EggBot is an L shaped piece consisting basically of 2 wooden pieces, both screwed to an L-shaped, bent metal piece.<br />
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At first I thought that I would only print the particular piece holding the pen, but after looking at the part for a while I decided that it would be better to print the entire L-shaped pen holder arm in one piece. That way there are no bolts and metals, and plastic sheets, no unnecessary dimensions of freedom. </div>
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I did not feel like redesigning it too much so I decided to copy the idea of the arm's design completely. I used a pink ruler to take approximate measurements of the original piece. As it is not a very complicated part, I decided to use <a href="http://www.openscad.org/">OpenSCAD</a> for creating a 3D model of it. I use OpenSCAD whenever I can as you can create 3D objects in a programmatic way, by writing a simple basic-like code for generating primitives and applying transformations and boolean operations. The main advantage of this is that you can use constants and variables which makes it easy to generate multiple versions of the same object with slightly different parameters, like one arm for the fine Sharpie, one for the ultra fine Sharpie, which are basically the same, only the pen diameter changes.<br />
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I had to make a few changes to the original design, like I had to rethink the way the thumbscrew is fitted (as the original EggBot Kit part had a metal piece there which I didn't). I solved it by using a nut and bolt.<br />
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There was only one conceptual modification I made to the original design: I wanted to create a pen holder which can fit both kinds of Sharpies nicely and that switching between the 2 kinds of pens does not require a screwdriver. I also wanted the pens to fit tightly. You can see on the picture what I came up with: I modularised the part of the arm that has the hole for the pen and made it replaceable.<br />
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After the design was done, I started the usual iterative process; print, try, adjust variables, print, try again, adjust variables, until everything is perfect. I needed about 4 iterations to find the perfect numbers. The biggest challenge was to get the size of the shaft for the nut that holds the thumbscrew correct I also ended up with cutting my one-piece pen arm into 2 pieces and gluing them together. The reason for this is that vertical holes print much nicer than horizontal holes.</div>
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Here is a picture of what it looks like when fitted on the EggBot:<br />
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The thing files are available on <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:696294">Thingiverse</a>.<br />
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tmlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00823917670566640703noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-19967357704178949882015-03-02T18:41:00.001+01:002015-03-02T18:41:47.124+01:00Five minutes of fameI just discovered earlier today that my blog has appeared on the <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/" target="_blank">Evil Mad Scientist website</a>! ❤️<br />
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-14150835147819402492015-02-23T22:53:00.000+01:002015-02-24T11:29:23.429+01:00Lots of prints and the solution to my misprinting problems<br />
Today evening my husband's friend came over to see my EggBot in action. I showed him how it is printing but as usual we have seen the filling and outline misprinting problem. Since he is a nerd too we decided to debug it finally!<br />
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Do you remember these problems I mentioned in my previous posts?<br />
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We have done about 10-12 prints today. Most of them was for testing purposes but on the bright side I could use my new "fat" Sharpie pens because the new pen holder piece is done! My husband printed it out with his 3D printer a few days ago but we just didn't have time to test it yet. (He also promised a post about how he made it, so stay tuned!)<br />
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First, we tried to set the shape of the egg by lifting up and down the motor. It didn't make much change. Then we tried to print out some examples to see if only my designs are bad or it happens with the other ones too. It wasn't my designs. You can see that the prints look good from the distance. But once you look closer the lines are not aligned properly, some filling is not placed right, etc.<br />
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The next idea was to create a drawing with only squares to see if they are aligned properly. They were. Then we just printed a line that went around the egg two times exactly. However the line never reached the end of the second round, it was too short.<br />
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Since we didn't have much idea what can cause this problem at the end we decided to try to update the firmware from 2.0.1 to 2.1.5. And tadaaam, it solved everything!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google man after the update - still there is a tiny mistake with his left shoe</td></tr>
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-48668536285423576182015-02-17T20:56:00.004+01:002015-02-17T20:56:56.890+01:00Drawing and first printing of the flower patternI started drawing this pattern a few weeks ago, but haven't had time to finish it lately. Today I sat down to do last lines and add fillings to the lines.<br />
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What I first realised was that I forgot how to do the filling, so I opened the <a href="http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Drawing_a_smiley_face,_part_3" target="_blank">EggBot Wiki tutorial</a> I used earlier.<br />
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What I also realised was that I forgot to write about the trick I invented to make the filling and the outline match more. If after you duplicate your path you go to Path → Inset for one or two times, the filling will not cross the outline and it will look better on printing.<br />
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Once I finished, let's the printing begin!<br />
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However I put every unique pattern to a different layer, first I tried to print it with only one colour. I wanted to test the whole drawing without making any mistake in the pen changing process.<br />
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As you can see the filling is not inside the outline for some reasons. I have had the same bug with my Google Men drawing, but I haven't spent time so far to examine it. To be honest I thought I did something wrong when I changed the different pens, but in this case it happened with the first layer without any pen changes.<br />
I decided to try Extensions → EggBot → Reorder Paths for Speed.<br />
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After the optimisation the second try looked much better! At least for the leaves... :( I'm still not sure if this setting solved the problem, probably not, but now I didn't experience the same problem, I found new ones!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I should place the pen higher</td></tr>
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Besides my other obvious problems, the round patterns were not round at all, so I stretched the whole picture as much as I could.<br />
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The second black print looked better, stretching made its magic, round objects look almost totally round. However I still have problems with the filling. For the colour print I try to set a bit on the fillings. Who knows, I might get it right this time.<br />
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I also removed the blue flower from the left, because on the egg it was next to the pink one on the right and it did not look good. I replaced it with the orange one and kept the colour blue. Hopefully a not-filled flower will look better next to the filled pink one.<br />
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And this is how the colour print looked:<br />
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I can see that it is still not perfect, so before I publish the .svg file on <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/k1ttk4/designs" target="_blank">my Thingiverse page</a> I will work a bit more on it.<br />
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Thanks to my grandparents for providing eggs to experiment!<br />
<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-46518580777064773282015-02-07T16:56:00.000+01:002015-02-11T17:17:43.134+01:00Various printsFriends came over and I wanted to show them my EggBot printer. I quickly pulled out an example drawing and after a short pen-up and pen-down setup I started printing. The result was not as good as I imagined:<br />
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As you can see the lines are not in harmony at all and it is kinda not what one would expect to happen. The main problem probably was that I had smaller eggs this time and I moved the parts of the EggBot Printer to fit smaller eggs but I didn't realise that the pen wasn't in the middle of the egg any more. Anyway, they were happy to see it actually printing.<br />
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For the second try I printed one of my half-ready designs with the Google Man (from my Gmail background) on it. And it also contains a test message printed on it that I placed there using the <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/hershey-text-an-inkscape-extension-for-engraving-fonts/" target="_blank">EggBot Inkscape extension's Hersey text</a>.<br />
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The text worked perfectly, unfortunately it cannot handle the exotic Hungarian letters such as "ü" and "á", but I can finish it manually. Unfortunately the printing has some mistakes again. The fillings of the feet weren't placed correctly. It happened earlier too, so I will look into this more deeply in the near future and get back with a solution as soon as I tested it.kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-57936497113482445442015-01-25T16:10:00.000+01:002015-02-17T21:06:11.766+01:00New Sharpie pensSince we live in Hungary it was a real challenge to buy <a href="http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Sharpie pens</a>, optionally the <a href="http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Pages/ultra-fine-point-marker.aspx" target="_blank">Ultra Fine type</a> as none of the known stationeries have them here.<br />
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As I was told, before Christmas my husband went to several places to ask about Sharpie pens but he had no luck finding any. At the end he ordered it from Amazon and spent lots of money on the shipping from the US just to get some for me.<br />
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Because of that we had in mind to check every stationery when we are abroad. So we did in London, when we were there for a few days and we found some Sharpie pens at <a href="http://www.ryman.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ryman Stationery</a> and they were even discounted. We bought an other <a href="http://www.ryman.co.uk/sharpie-fine-permanent-markers-pack-of-24" target="_blank">set of 80's glam pens</a>, but this time only we could buy the Fine type. The 24 pens set was 9.99 GBP (instead of 19.99 GBP). I don't know how good deal it is, but made me happy anyway. I also chose a pack of gold-silver-bronze pens and some blacks for backup.<br />
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The only problem is that they don't fit the pen holder of the EggBot.<br />
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I am planning to solve it by asking my husband to 3D print a larger pen holder for me. I will report on that as soon as it is done! (May take some time...)kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-13907666756709661442015-01-17T17:10:00.000+01:002015-02-11T17:16:06.177+01:00My Thingiverse pageI started <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/k1ttk4/designs" target="_blank">my Thingiverse page</a> to share my designs. At the moment I only have the Hungarian folk pattern there, but as soon as I finish more and I can print them (more or less) flawless, I will upload them.<br />
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Visit my page for designs: <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/k1ttk4/designs">http://www.thingiverse.com/k1ttk4/designs</a><br />
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-88926817470288649712015-01-10T16:54:00.000+01:002015-02-11T16:55:30.835+01:00My first design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first design was inspired by my Mom. I told her about my plans to draw something in Inkscape to be printed on an egg later. She immediately ask if I am planning to do a Hungarian folk pattern. Hmmm, why not?<br />
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So I opened a browser to search for some inspiration and then draw my first pattern. To be exact, only the outline in black and white as I was not sure how to do the filling. I searched the EggBot wiki about a tutorial and soon found the <a href="http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Drawing_a_smiley_face,_part_1" target="_blank">"Drawing a smiley face" tutorial</a>.<br />
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After a few hours of work I felt like trying it out for real. I went to the fridge to get an egg, set up the printer and mounted the egg. What can I say, nothing can be perfect for the first try:<br />
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The pattern was too small and stretched. Also most parts of the egg were empty and that looked bad. What went well was the filling. But actually it went far too well as the pen went through the same places too many times. In the <a href="http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Drawing_a_smiley_face,_part_1" target="_blank">tutorial</a> I was advised to use 4px for the stroke, but I increased it for the next print to 5px and it seemed to be the right choice with my Ultra Fine Sharpie pens.<br />
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I also edited the drawing, stretched it to look more natural on the egg and to make it bigger. I also added few patterns to the top and the bottom. I must say that the result was much better!<br />
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I have some problems with placing the pen to low and because of that it makes extra unwanted lines at the "edges". But other than this, I like how it worked out!<br />
<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-73963100918129589732014-12-27T16:13:00.000+01:002015-02-11T16:34:00.418+01:00My first printAfter my EggBot was in one piece, of course I wanted to try it out! First, I only used the one colour, in my case it was black.<br />
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I opened a template file that I downloaded earlier in Inkscape and set up the printer, using the <a href="http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Making_your_first_plot" target="_blank">Inkscape EggBot extension</a>. Once again I followed the very clear instructions and after setting up the pen-up and pen-down positions in about 3 minutes, I found myself trying to mount the egg for about 10 minutes...<br />
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I don't know if you have ever tried to mount an egg before the way that it is as symmetrical as possible, but it seems to be one of the hardest parts of using EggBot.<br />
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<a href="http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Making_your_first_plot" target="_blank">The website</a> makes it seem very easy, but believe me, I was very frustrated after trying it for 10 minutes:<br />
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Pull back the plunger and roughly center the end of the egg on the headstock. Gently return the plunger to the other end of the egg. Spin the egg to see if it is centered, and adjust its position in the two egg cups as necessary.</blockquote>
If you have any good tips how to do it easily, please do not hesitate to share!<br />
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Anyway, at the end I managed to mount the egg and the printing could be started:<br />
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I later tried to print the snowman with 2 colours and other patterns. I also found one example file with text. Could not resist to print it too!<br />
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0Budapest, Hungary47.497912 19.04023499999993947.1545055 18.394787999999938 47.8413185 19.68568199999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-24251078552079164072014-12-27T14:16:00.000+01:002015-02-11T16:01:28.604+01:00EggBot software for InkscapeI don't plan to say much about the software install as it was easy and smooth. I followed the instructions from the <a href="http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Installing_software" target="_blank">EggBot website</a> and everything went as promised.<br />
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I also tested the Inkscape extension on both Windows and OSX and they worked perfectly.kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-37648586748722975052014-12-26T15:36:00.000+01:002015-02-11T15:44:38.852+01:00PensTogether with my EggBot, I also got some pens for Xmas. My husband did some research what kind of pens I should use, so he got me a pack of <a href="http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Pages/sharpiemarkers.aspx" target="_blank">Sharpie Ultra Fine</a> pens. I have now the "80's glam" set of pens!<br />
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-88083149039238862812014-12-25T10:05:00.000+01:002015-02-10T16:04:48.273+01:00EggBot Kit AssemblySince my EggBot Deluxe Edition came as a kit, the first adventure was to put it together.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Just to be clear, <a href="http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/171" target="_blank">referring to the EggBot website</a>, the Deluxe Edition means this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">"This Deluxe Edition — our most popular — includes the precision egg coupler, 5/64" balldriver, hex driver holster, and brass hardware upgrades."</span></blockquote>
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On the next morning I opened the box, separated the packets and opened the online <a href="http://shop.emscdn.com/KitInstrux/eggbot/ebk_html_21b_2/index.html" target="_blank">EggBot Kit Assembly Instructions</a>.<br />
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I have followed many manuals in my life, but I have to say that this Assembly Guide is very well done. It was always easy to follow and the instructions were clear. It was absolutely "girl-safe". :)</div>
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<br />kittkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08645399671502028473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6043632803531239410.post-46261722518185460832014-12-24T23:11:00.000+01:002015-02-10T16:04:09.500+01:00An EggBot for XmasI was very excited when I opened my present from my husband. I had no idea what he was planning...<br />
At the very first seconds I didn't even know what it was. A printer for eggs? Strange!<br />
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After checking out the box and looking at the pictures on it I realised that it is so cool that I want to try it out right now!<br />
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So this is how my adventures begin with my <a href="http://egg-bot.com/" target="_blank">EggBot Kit - Deluxe Edition</a>.<br />
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