Author Archives: Martijn Elserman

Making jewelry from 3D prints

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Martijn Elserman

One of the early Ultimaker workshop participants, Paul Steenbrink (Cardillac) a Goldsmith, experiments with his Ultimaker to make jewelry, casted in gold or silver direct from the printed object. I didn’t know it is possible to cast directly from the printed … Continue reading →

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Ultimaker available for pre-order

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Martijn Elserman

The last few months have been very busy ones for us, we done quite some testing with the Ultimaker, started a company, searched for the right material suppliers, worked on our webshop and so on. We initially planned to start … Continue reading →

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Ultimaker TV debut

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Martijn Elserman

I’m not sure why we waited so long to post this on our site, but we had our debut on Dutch National TV. Erik was contacted (he’s the most visible one of us three) by De Wereld Draait Door to … Continue reading →

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Insane Speeds with PLA on Ultimaker

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Martijn Elserman

We did some testing regarding the speed boundaries of the Ultimaker. For ABS plastic it lies at approx. 150mm/s feedrate (x,y movement). It could be higher but we ran into flowrate issues occasionally and at high speeds it bonds less … Continue reading →

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Speeding

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

The limits of the mechanical frame have not been discovered yet. This is an insanely fast print (the axes move at 15 cm/s), printing even fairly large objects pretty fast! Continue reading →

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Support material

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

Here’s a print with support material. The overhang at the chin and nose is would not be possible to print without support material. Support is printed from the same material as the guy is printed from. Removing it takes a … Continue reading →

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Printing bigger things

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

One of the reasons I started designing the Ultimaker is I wanted to print larger, taller things, hence the 21x21x21cm build envelope. When printing large objects sometimes because of differences between the warm and cooled plastic, the prints tend to … Continue reading →

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PLA print

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

This Pink Panther woman printed in PLA turned out very nice. Muhler – Pink Panther Woman printed in PLA on the Ultimaker from Thingiverse.

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Ultimaker Masterclass

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

Siert made a video during the Ultimaker masterclass, its in Dutch but you’ll get the picture. Currently 12 are being built.

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Fab6 workshop – build a 3D printer

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

This week Fab6 took place in the Netherlands, there were several workshops to attend, one of them was to build a 3D printer, the Ultimaker. Wood was laser cut and two people with no technical skills started building the machine. They … Continue reading →

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