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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good news : the two nozzle based force detection patents have been declared unpatentable!

Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Treston is not cheap but it is well made, space optimised and solid. I have the 550-3 storages that has 60 drawers in only 550mm height and each drawer can be split in 6 spaces, this mean 360 compartments in one piece of furniture! I have 3 of those now. www.treston.com/storage-syst...

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Small parts storage cabinet 310x180x550 | Treston

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've created #opensource addons for the Treston small parts storage system. These consist of dividers, front label clips, internal labels, icons and pre-made labels for Brother printers. Icons are designed for quick identification: a single image and large text. ➡️ codeberg.org/gregsaun/tre...

Photo of a 550-3 Treston furniture with 60 drawers all labeled. They contains various metric screws and nuts

Photo of and open drawer of M2.5 button screws with socket head divided in 6 spaces (5x 3D printed dividers). On the left side of the drawer there is a thin printed part all along with screw length written for each spaces.

Photo of an exploded view of all parts. On the left we have the long internal divider. In the middle-top there is a shorter divider, followed below by a standard size divider, followed by a front label clip and in the middle-bottom is an example of a printed label. On the right we have an empty Treston drawer.

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Jesse Hattaboo @jessehattabaugh.com · 30/09/2026

3D printed u-joints! Just uses pressfit bushing from McMaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h6C... He's gotta do the differentials next. Too much non-printed material in those.

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Why Race Cars & RC Cars Use Different Axles

YouTube video by curv lab

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As we close out our Pose grant we want to thank our community for all of the hard work and incredible connections made during the last two years. You can now certify your healthware device at Healthware.oshwa.org. Don't forget to stay in touch!

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I see my old institution is now parenting things that I would have open sourced...

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wow that's very hard pedalling 🥺. Take care!

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This fork is based on 2 researches: - Overhangs modulation: arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01375 - Color Contoning: cdfg.mit.edu/publications... ⚠️ This uses Claude AI and I normally avoid due to ethical concerns. However, the research papers and the results are important to understand how 3D printing evolve.

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A new OrcaSlicer fork with innovative solutions for printing in colors. It uses overhangs to hide a previous color and require a single tool change per layer, reducing time and waste. GitHub: github.com/sentientstar... YGK3D explain in detail how it works : www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5cv...

Vertical print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai

Two colourful cats in colours with their right paw up. The left one has a patchwork style of colours while the right one has smooth vertical transitions of pink, yellow and blue with black patterns.

A detail of the right cat of the previous image where we can see overhangs dropping to make the color change.

Impressive jaguar in white, yellow and black. The white is transitioning a smoothly and the black is well contrasted. The belly looks great knowing it was printed with support. The tail is unfortunately missing, it has probably broken during the print

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you, nice reading planed!

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Doss this mean it would require a minimum space between the OD of the auger and the ID of the tube in which it rotates?

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Interesting! I wish I had time for experimenting all this.

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yeah I understand your goal and it makes sense. I was more thinking aloud after having watch your video. Oh maybe, with the screw as you have, file the screw diameter at the last top thread? This would be easy potentially improve pellets entry. Again thinking aloud, you can ignore me 😅

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yeah I don't know how to do it either, I was just thinking that if the tip could be on too and the wider thread at the bottom it could potentially be more efficient. It would require to cut the screw and solder something on the tip. Otherwise you could make your screw with a lathe and hardened it.

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Very visual explanation of the difficulties of pellets/powder, well done. It would be great if you could flip the screw to have the tip at the entry of the pellets, it would provide more space for them to be catched.

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HomoFaciens (a making human) @homofaciens.de · 10/07/2026

To improve the design of my Direct Granules Extruder, I took a very close look at the properties of powders / pellets / granules: #3Dprinting #DIV #OpenHardware #Extruder www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrg...

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Powder properties and print tests with extruder V7.2

YouTube video by HomoFaciens

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An idea for the Revo: add thermal grease from SliceEngineer on the thread. I haven't tried it, this is just an idea... Also while you are there, could you make noise for this: github.com/OpenCommunit... . This is as bad as AGPL with Bambu. Exploiting open source for marketing purpose. 6 months now.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/07/2026

Breaking News! Code: UFB!!! It's official! The "Super El Nino" has begun, with Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperatures now 2.0°C (3.6°F) above the 1991-2020 baseline. The Climate 8-ball is getting racked.

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

That's why I like a good old screw 😅

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"It is pretty disappointing that a license that is framed in the spirit of openness is actually an attempt to expand copyright-like control over things that are in the public domain and openly available for anyone to use."

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

F1model.s uses a resin 3D printer to build 1/4 scale models of a Formula 1 car. The CAD model should look great! Here is a non-short video of the build: ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvpi... #3dprinting #cad

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Building a 1/4 Scale F1 Williams FW24 BMW V10 | The Project Begins

YouTube video by F1model.s

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We're excited to welcome back Anthony Di Franco as a speaker on day two of our second annual Open Healthware Conference. Anthony Di Franco is the president of the Open Insulin Foundation and will be sharing his talk "Open Source solutions for medical supply chain challenges". Check it out!

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes all that 💯 . I don't understand why miss this obvious thing

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They try to fight open source while the problem is the patent system... Instead they could have worked with OSHWA that tries, if I recall correctly, to have certified open source projects in the list of prior art of UPTSO.

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E3D @e3donline.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📢 Our summer sale is now on! 🍦🌴🍹🍉 Save up to 35% on popular products from Revo nozzles to Bambu Lab A1 HotEnds! Shop the sale 👉 bit.ly/3QEcQaG #3DPrinting #3DPrinterUpgrade #BambuLab

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@Ubermeisters @ubermeisters.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A conduit benders wet dream. (the green cylinders are bubble levels)

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yeah, but instead to have yet another repository it would be best if they could use GitHub or Codeberg API

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wow after years of asking for it, Prusa has finally added the CERN OHL v2 license to printables ... but only the stricter variant 🙄 CERN OHL v2 is the only modern open source license protecting your functional 3D prints. It has 3 variants: strong, weak and permissive. #3dprinting #prusa

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Natalie @nataliethenerd.com · 19/06/2026

I love these little clam shell boxes so I made one for wires makerworld.com/models/2952255

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Is it me or this is just a Voron 2.4? Link to the patent: worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/searc...

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modostech.bsky.social @modostech.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Four years, countless PCB revisions, and one custom FPGA controller later: a 60fps, 300ppi, open-source E Ink monitor is finally real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA...

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How I made a 60fps Eink Monitor, the Modos Flow

YouTube video by Wenting Channel

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Deaftronics manufactured the first solar-powered hearing aid unit called Solar Ear. In direct sunlight, the solar charger is able to charge three batteries simultaneously, in only two to three hours. The batteries last a week, have a lifespan between two to three years, and are versatile. #OHWC2026

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Now an important problem you mention is that you can unscrew the nozzle while the grub screw is tight, this will inevitably cause issues as you have a lot of force like that. For me this is a design flaw/limitation so it's good Prusa replaced the nozzle.

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So you can imagine that the inozzle needs to resist to 300N (3x margin) so even a small press can do it and save a lot of time compared to heating the nozzle tip. Would be interesting to know if they heat up or not because it could be an improvement. ⤵️

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's also possible that they don't heat up and simply machine the right clearances (there are standards and tables for that) because it's much faster! An extruder needs around 100N (10kg) force before something slip, over that it is not really useful (issues is elsewhere if you reach that). ⤵️

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Greg Saunier @gregsaunier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm not a machinist but the clearance, even when the hotend tip is warmed up, is still very tight (you still need a press) so I'm not sure adding something like light knurling or "screw shape" would be possible without deforming the thread on the outside. ⤵️

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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