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Re:Jello 3D Printer (2013) by samcheng on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:56PM (#26498999)
It would have been a cool project, even if he used 8020 extrusion like most similar projects.

Instead, he used salvaged gear for this: He pulled old stepper motors from hard disk drives, and even used an old laptop battery as a power supply. Impressive!

Re:Jello 3D Printer (2013) by cwkoss on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:34AM (#26500145)
So impressive. Its like an implausible macgyver scenario in an action film.