My parents recently bought a new patio table and because of the drainage slope on the patio the table didn’t sit level. They were using a block of wood under one leg of the table to level it but they were looking for a better solution. I suggested that I could 3D print a “sock” to go over the leg with the block to raise it the same amount as the block. But they wanted all the legs to match…
After the last post about how I turned the Computer Society logo into a key ring (Here), I thought I’d go through the process of turning a logo into a 3D printed object in more detail. First you need to find a good quality version of the logo (I’m going to use the crest of my university). Take the image into Adobe Illustrator and run “Image Trace”, The settings I used were configured to simplify the design and make it…
I made these keyrings for promotional purposes for the computer society to use at a conference that we were attending. I took the outline version of the society logo into Illustrator. I had to create two drawings one of the main body and one of the design in the center, I also simplified the design to make it easier to print. I saved these two drawings as .dxf which is a type of vector drawing file that can be imported…
In the last post I started refurbishing a DELL XPS 15 L502X by improving it’s thermals (here). In this post we will look at: Replacing the Hard Drive with an SSD Replacing and increasing the RAM Doing a clean install of Windows 10 In my opinion the easiest way to find a replacement SSD and RAM is to use the Crucial System Scanner which is run by Crucial who are a reputable maker of SSDs and RAM. When you run…