OttoDIY with Camilo Parra Palacio

hansamann — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:18:00 +0000

Camilo is a Product Design Engineer and the Founder of Otto DIY. He’s a Designer by profession, roboticist and 3D printing enthusiast by passion. Born in Colombia a drive for adventure and pursuing his dreams took him to China in 2014, while working in Shanghai for a multinational inflatable toy manufacturer, he wondered upon the very first Hackerspace in China. There he started playing, learning and experimenting with DIY robots. At that time DIY robots were only accessible to professionals, and not well known to the general public.

After coming up short with finding an easy to make robot for all ages, he realized what he needed to do. Bring to the market an open source robot that anyone can make. He bought a 3D printer and in a couple of months the iconic shape of Otto was made functional.

Since then thousands of people started using Otto all around the world due to it’s simple Do-it-yourself home assembly attributes.

Otto DIY is headquartered in Czech Republic, the center of Europe where the term robot and the best open source 3D printer was created. Thanks to Otto DIY open source nature, it has become one of the most popular 3D printable robot designs in the world. And by the way: Otto is the first-ever Open Source Hardware certificated project from the Czech Republic!

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Otto DIY Website
Community https://builders.ottodiy.com/
Otto Academy https://www.ottodiy.com/academy
Camilo Parra Palacio on Twitter

The Sculpto 3D printers with Martin Moos

hansamann — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re talking to Martin Moos, Head of Sales and Customer Service at Sculpto. Sculpto is a Denmark-based 3d printing company that Kickstarted the Sculpto+ 3D printer in 2017. The Sculpto+ is a polar 3D printer, which means it has a rotating base element which is quite uncommon among 3d printers – but it works really perfectly and the printer therefore does not take up a lot of space. The printer also comes completely pre-assembled and you’re up and printing pretty much after you connected it to Wifi. At the end of this show we’re also discussing the Sculpto 2 which is their latest product.

Martin is the head of sales/customerm service and knows the Sculpto printers really well. Sculpto is still a small company, based in Aarhus in Denmark, and I would assume that most employees do a little bit of everything, which is really good and really common at startups, too.

The Sculpto 3d printer is a polar-style 3d printer. This means it has a round platform that moves as it prints. The printer itself is therefore very compact and super super quiet – I had mine running a lot over night and you really almost don’t hear it in the next room.

Just because it is compact does not mean that you can only print small objects – you can print objects with a diameter up to 20cms, which is really big enough.

Below is a video of Sculpto 2 which shows the printing process.

Next, it comes with very easy to use apps. Once you connected it to wifi and added some filament, you can print immediately via their smartphone app. It’s connected to thingiverse, which is a huge repository of ready to print objects. So even if you have absolutely no knowledge of 3d printing, you can print cool objects that other’s have created.

Once you know more about 3d printing, you can start to design your own objects – with web-based tools such as tinkercad or of course with more professional 3d creation tools such as blender.

For me personally, sculpto+ was the perfect entrance into 3d printing. It is still the printer I use most and I can only recommend to get one – the printer, the apps, the easy user interface and great service really make a compelling package.

Images: (c) Sculpto

3dprinting – KidsLab

OttoDIY with Camilo Parra Palacio

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The Sculpto 3D printers with Martin Moos

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