3d printed mini-printing press

 So my daughter found this site:  openpressproject.com that has a small printing press you can 3d print. So I thought I'd give it a go.  I downloaded the stl's from thingverse sliced it up in PrusaSlicer and loaded up in OctoPrint.  The Prusa Mini did an amazing job with it.  It came out quite well and the tolerances for the gears and parts that slide were amazing.   There's an excellent build guide on makezine that can explain it much better than I ever could.  

Intermediate build pic - testing the fit and meshing of the gears.

The assembled press

Not ambitious enough t make this a GIF but it moves smoothly.

The underside of the printing plate showing the gears

Now I have to wait for my daughter to come home from college to try and make some prints with it.  It won't hold up forever - eventually the PLA plastic will give out and need to be replaced but it should be a simple matter of reprinting the part(s) needed.

Kitty Paw toe bean macro pad

 I'm catching up on my tinkering projects.  The latest one: Kitty Toe Bean Keypad with Color TFT.  I forgot to take in-progress pictures but here's the final just before assembly shots.  I 3d printed the parts on my Prusa Mini and they came out excellent. Only some minor looseness in the snap-together parts.  The rest of the parts I ordered from Adafruit.com listed in the build guide. 

Pretty happy with how the qtPy soldering turned out

The Kahil Jade switch wiring isn't great, but it works - you have to solder to a pin/post which requires very steady hands to keep it smooth - I do not have steady hands.

Press fit together.  You can see some of my sloppy soldering on the TFT display.

With the Toe Beans installed.

Here's a video of it in action - the original build guild has a dancing parrot as the image, I swapped out pictures of my cat Lola.  Sorry about the vertical filming I wasn't paying attention. 

All in all a fun project - the buttons do CMD+S (save), CMD+X (cut), CMD+C (copy) and CMD+P (paste).  I'll have to open a thread in the adafruit forums as the overall performance is really slow.  I have to hold the button longer than I would expect for it to take the action.  In the video on the build guide you get the impression that it works much faster/smoother than that.  Probably a wiring issue on my part