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Enclosure for mcGateway
By: eldaria Date: September 30, 2016, 5:34 am
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Hello Everyone.
I wanted an enclosure for the mcGateway, so I made one in
Tinkercad for my 3D printer.
It is quite tight fit, and my printer was not able to do it so
very nice, so I might modify it one day, but for now it was good
enough for me.
Here is a link in case anyone else want to give it a go.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1798888
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1798888
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: mr_mcthing Date: November 30, 2016, 2:01 am
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Nice! I have one printed today. Lets see if it fits :) Did you
also make an enclosure for the mc-modules? I would be interested
in those files too. If I have my enclosure printed I will upload
an image here.
I ordered one through
https://www.3dhubs.com
lets see how that
works out :)
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: eldaria Date: November 30, 2016, 2:27 am
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No I did not make one for the mcModule, I'm waiting for the one
mcThings were going to send, not sure what has happened with the
though.
Let me know how your fit is, mine was as I said a bit tight but
it works. :-)
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: ajohnson Date: November 30, 2016, 2:53 pm
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There's a post about a printable enclose here:
http://mcthings.createaforum.com/misc/re-post-enclosures/
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: mr_mcthing Date: December 1, 2016, 2:24 am
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Thanks I knew I'd seen them but could not find it any more :)
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: kbrooking Date: December 2, 2016, 11:12 pm
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Nice. How much would you guess it costs you to print one of
those? How fast can the printer print one out?
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: mr_mcthing Date: December 3, 2016, 3:04 pm
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I went to 3dhubs.com and selected one of the 3d printing
services nearby :) Collecting it myself cost me approx 7 Euro
for the mcGateway and two modules. The mcGateway enclosure is,
as already mentioned by "It is quite tight fit". But since I'm
not a 3d-designer I use it as it is now. The enclosures for the
modules are fine (not waterproof though).
so if any-one else is willing to design some state of the art
enclosures (for all the hardware, including the dongle and if
possible waterproof) than that would be interesting to see. And
sharing the 3d print files to use would even better :)
Of course we are also still waiting to receive the enclosures
form mcThings (Kickstarter)!
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: ajohnson Date: December 3, 2016, 5:09 pm
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The cost for me is hard to estimate. My wife bought me the
printer (a wanhao duplicator i3 clone) for my birthday so I
suppose that can't really be factored in, but at some point it
might be a consideration. The 1kg spool of PLA material it's
using to "print" the enclosures was $23. ABS and PETG prices
are similar.
A single mcModule enclosure with lid from the files linked above
on "fast" takes this printer 45 minutes and it says it requires
6 grams of material, but I decided to put 3 of them down at
once, which for some reason took 2 hours and 19 grams. I had no
trouble with those...
... but I'm trying to print the gateway and lid now, a much
larger set of objects, and it says it will take 5.5 hours with
39 grams of material, but I've failed 3 times now and aborted
after about 3 hours each time, so that's material wasted. I
probably need to clean the bed better, or maybe try just
printing the lid and base separately.
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: eldaria Date: December 4, 2016, 4:33 am
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Hi Everyeon,
If you do print the McGateway Enclusure, please add pictures to
the "Made" Section, I'm curious on how it turns out on other
printers.
[quote author=ajohnson link=topic=236.msg1435#msg1435
date=1480806563]
I'm trying to print the gateway and lid now, a much larger set
of objects, and it says it will take 5.5 hours with 39 grams of
material, but I've failed 3 times now and aborted after about 3
hours each time, so that's material wasted. I probably need to
clean the bed better, or maybe try just printing the lid and
base separately.
[/quote]
It is usually not a good idea to print two seprate things at the
same time, some printers can do it, but I usually can't.
Also depending on your printer the lid can be tricky due to
warping, and is problem I also have with very flat objects.
What I do is add a skirt to hold down the print. It sometimes
helps, otherwise it is more expensive printers with heated beds
that does it better.
[quote author=mr_mcthing link=topic=236.msg1434#msg1434
date=1480799068]
possible waterproof
[/quote]
3D printed stuff are really difficult to make water-proof, the
plastic itself usually contains microfractures so it will leak
all over. Possibly with some after treatment to seal the plastic
could work.
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Re: Enclosure for mcGateway
By: ajohnson Date: December 9, 2016, 5:38 pm
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After several attempts, I have a set (box & lid) I'm ok with.
Photos are on your thingverse section. For some reason all my
lids (3) came out a tad short in length, even when I printed
them 90 degrees rotated. Not overly so though.
Now I can get back to software development :)
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