Here’s another story about someone who’s unafraid to let an individual noun represent her identity. April, of the 3D Printing group on LinkedIn, has taken a piece of technology made for customizable one-offs and turned it into her own customized one-off: a Hello Kitty themed 3D printer. Hello Thingy is April’s first 3D printer built entirely from scratch. She printed the parts for it on a MendelMax 1.5 kit that she got her paws on over a year ago. While it may look, merely, like an aesthetic upgrade to the MendelMax, she’s actually modified parts of the original printer’s design to fit some drawbacks she saw in the original design. For instance, Hello Thingy has a PrusaNozzle MKII, ALU MKII head bead, and RAMPS 1.4 with Taurino power. April has also shielded the electronics and cables using copper shield to minimize radio frequency interference.…
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