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Got an AER9 Laser Rifle from Fallout printed. Really? wow! That must have taken forever. Added more sound or REAL actual lasers? Show it off here.

I am not probably not capable of making a full sized answer until at least Wednesday, so I'll throw my idea here now and add images of it later (publishing stuff right now, and finishing other stuff). There is a set of systems I say on some ancient 3DP printer (think 80s) made by a guy I know who wa...

Depending on the powder, efficient recovery is necessary. Zcorp powder (the original) costs around $100/kg. It is ridiculously expensive. Granted that if you make it yourself, it could be cheaper, decent filtering is still a preferred thing. I think that you can make the 5cm gap as little as 1cm wit...

The basics I have had in my mind as well, but I like how detailed you thought of it here. The ledge thing is something I like in particular. It fixes quite a few problems I had with my design. In a way, this is how Z-corp printers unload themselves. They claim they can get rid of 70% of the powder t...

If you can manage to print SLA resin with a printhead you basically have an Objet printer, one of the most versatile techniques around. The real challenge is that most printheads are bubblejets and they need to heat the liquid to print them. I do not know if bubblejets can handle light sensitive res...

From what I have gathered in the datasheet, they are plastic beads covered in a PVA glue. Water melts the surface and when the water evaporates, the glue sets again. Grinding the beads up will probably leave a lot of the powder without glue, because it is only applied to the surface (from what I hav...

Neat way of building parts. I never really considered aluminium door signs (nor did I know of their existence) but 0.25mm (0.01") aluminium should be strong enough if the design is right. I don't know if $2 is a bit much for the thickness and surface area, but it is more available than most sou...

There is a design floating around that does indeed have that included in the model, but I couldn't tell you where it is, I don't know.

Heating the printbed would indeed help the speed. If you only need to push the temperature past the melting point by a bit, there is no need for 4-5 cycles (and no more smoking heat shields). The rising heat passing the printhead might be an issue, but that is a fixable problem. While I totally agre...

The Multi-Pass technique looks great. I can't believe the strength you are getting and how unsintered the surrounding powder is. My only experiment with Nylon sintering only left me with weak wire frames. Your sugar has surprising strength for the fact that it is sugar. The smoking heat shielding is...