Em2a Studios

03/30/2020

Also available to print and help out our healthcare workers during the pandemic - ear savers:

Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Creality is making buckles that adapt face masks so they are less painful for medical workers treating coronavirus patients.

03/27/2020

Update: We're switching to the NIH approved design that uses 3 hole punched page protectors:
https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013238

In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a pandemic going on. There’s been a lot of information floating around about how we as a maker community can help. Some of it is good, some of it is not so good.

We’re not 3d printing masks - those are best sewn right now.

We *are* 3D printing face shields out of PLA filament. Our local Banner Health said they would take them. They wipe everything down with an antiviral.

I love our medical teams, they’ve saved my life once before. I’m going to do whatever I can to return the favour. I’m passing on this information so you can help out, too.

We’ll only be able to get through this if we work together. (6+ ft apart 😁)

Join me?
We're utilizing the NIH approved design that uses 3 hole punched page protectors:
https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013238

And I have a shopping list for parts here:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/27ZRTCZ4MZ3Y7?ref_=wl_share

We can get about 18 masks per roll of filament.

Previous Prusa Research file link:
https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25857-protective-face-shield-rc1/comments

A prototype face shield that we developed. In three days, we went through dozens of prototypes and two verifications with the Czech Ministry of Health. Check this print for 2 and 4 stack versions. Version RC3 changelogChanges from RC2: Removed hexagonal holes for faster printing speeds With faste...

02/28/2020

Our Anycubic Photon at work printing an airlock for brewing sake. Pyrial Welding may have too much fun with this.

02/25/2020

and I are expanding! The new addition to our fleet is set up and already working hard. It runs a lot like the PrintrBots I used to use at ye ol’ TechShop, but with the added benefit of a climate controlled (and fire proof) enclosure. Build space is 220mm x 220mm x 250mm (roughly 8.7” x 8.7” x 9.8”), so we can also do significantly larger prints.

08/09/2019

Artist Alley booth T131 over by the Umbrella Corp group. Come say hi! @ Game On Expo

08/07/2019

- Running out of materials, but slowly but surely assembling what I’ve cut in the past couple days. We moved The Lab back into the house so it’s kind of novel to be able to watch the laser and work where there’s air conditioning again.

See you at Game On Expo!

08/03/2019

A couple friends recently confessed that they didn’t really know the work it took for me to do what I do. So, here’s a quick snapshot.

It starts with an idea. I wanted to make dice towers. I didn’t really know what makes dice towers do their thing, so I Googled it, poring over hundreds of designs, methods, watched a bunch of videos, flipped through about 20 Instructables, and pilfered through forums.

I wrote 5 hours for this, but I’ve been wanting to do this project for a while and knew exactly where to go to start and am missing a collective 20 hours over the last year and a half. Really, the 5 hours was for focused research and assembly of a one from the Glowforge forum so I knew how they *should* fit together. I loved Jeff’s fold out tray and Dan’s use of serrated tabs, so I borrowed those elements. The clips reminded me of snake fangs, and an idea was born.

The 1st draft took 5 hours from concept planning, to box generation, rudimentary point clean up, 10 minutes of cutting, and about 15 minutes of assembly. I needed to see how everything fit together, which pieces I needed and which pieces I could really do without. I kind of hated how it turned out, but I loved its potential. I decided I didn’t like where the tray hit so low and the teeth didn’t fit in nicely.

The second draft was 2 hours of adjustments, calculations, and then another 10 minutes of cut time with 15 minutes of assembly. Again, being quick and focused on “does this work?”

After being reasonably pleased with how the edits went, the third draft was about 10 hours of clean up, adjustments, file drawing, about 30 minutes for the snake head design, and lots and lots of gluing. I got rid of the “training wheels” tab that I used initially to make sure the lid ended up long enough, and assembled the box parts digitally before blowing it out to cut. Mind you, I was still off, and so the 4th draft took another couple hours of adjustments to satisfy my perfectionism.

That snake took 5 hours to draw each scale by hand. I also then vectorized my drawing, and fit it to each piece. The engrave with the cut took 3 hours.

All in all, that’s 35 hours and 6 sheets of material to make one working box.

05/30/2019

Check out the new cedar laser material we got in! 😻😻😻 This will definitely be used for the boxes