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3D printer holiday “barn raising”

So over the holidays Phil came to visit and we decided to put on a sort of electronic version of a barn rasing for his 3D printer. Phil broke down his printer and showed up with a bag of parts.

Phil was building the same model printer that I had a few years ago. So it was kind of cool using one printer to make parts to finish of another. Something cool about “I built that printer, and I am using to build another!” That said there was not a lot of “self replication” going on. Building a printer is still a lot of work.

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Joel knew we were doing a build, so he came over to hang out and help.

Phil said he felt bad that Joel came over and we just put him to work for the entire time he was here. I am pretty fortunate, I don’t have a lot of close friends – but the ones I do are all the type of people to come over when you need a hand. When I thought about it, my friend Ross had extended his trip through the US a few days over the holidays 3 years ago to help me build my own printer.

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Unfortunately my printer started having a weird problem that took a while to track down and fix. That set back the build a bit – so Phil’s still got some work to do when he gets home. Still, it was a fun productive visit.